GAY PRESS IN BRAZIL: a journalistic and militant look at homosexual reality in the 70s and 80s

Abstract

This article approaches how the militancy of the homosexual movement and the journalistic practice by some agents were responsible for a unique phenomenon in the history of Brazilian journalism: the gay press. For this, a comparison was made between the subjects treated, as well as the approaches, of the newspaper Lampião da Esquina, a gay periodical that had the greatest impact between 1979 and 1981, and Folha de S.Paulo. It is a comparative document analysis, based on bibliographical research. As a result, it was possible to identify that, in addition to being unprecedented, the militant look at reality was essential for the existence of this press, making its focus not only a differential element, but a primordial one, so that the appropriate subjects were launched to the dimension of the public sphere.