KILLING BODIES, BODIES LEFT TO DIE: VIOLENCE IN HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS
Abstract
We problematize the facilitated ways of dying that affect homosexuals in situations of intimate violence. We emphasized the regulation of sexuality, heteronorm and homonormativity to think about the legislative supports for the lives of these subjects. Based on the concept of biopolitics by Foucault and necropolitics by Mbembe, the differences between letting die and making people die were discussed, understanding that both may result from the absence of the State in protecting violence between homosexual couples. Characteristics such as race / ethnicity, social class and gender performance intersect with sexual orientation and are directly related to which bodies are left to die and which are symbolically killed by the State. Finally, state protection through punitive laws is not enough to prevent these crimes, it is necessary to problematize the coloniality of gender truths, establishing public policies that consider the particularities of violence in homosexual relationships.
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