Homophobia and internalized homophobia: subjective productions of heteronormative control?

Abstract

The article will theoretically problematize some emblematic issues that circumscribe homosexualities along  history, starting from a theoretical-methodological position marked by cultural and gender studies by post-structuralist authors. At the present time, there are many progresses and conquests in the sociopolitical field related to the sexual diversity. However, such notoriety has produced triggers for violent social practices which are demonstrated in crimes and hate discourses, intolerance and veiled interdictions against homosexuals. Therefore, this article intends to demonstrate the social construction of homophobia and, subsequently, the construction of internalized homophobia, since its established pillars are sustained by processes of heteronormative subjectivation powdered in daily social contexts.