Bisexuality in brazil

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ALVES, Isabela Guimarães; MOREIRA, Lisandra Espíndula  e  PRADO, Marco Aurélio Máximo.Lesbian and bisexual women's health: politics, movement and heteronormativity. Rev. Psicol. Saúde [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.3, pp.145-161. ISSN 2177-093X.  https://doi.org/10.20435/pssa.vi.1072.

This article aims to discuss the public health policies directed toward lesbian and bisexual women in Brazil, dialoguing with the demands presented by the movement through its trajectory. We briefly presented the lesbian movement consolidation history and revisited the public policies for the healthcare of lesbian and bisexual women. From the analyses of the selected fifteen documents, we intended to comprehend the discourses reproduced on their elaboration and their effects on the healthcare practices, identifying a series of difficulties on the effective implementation of these policies. We pondered over the precarization of the lesbian and bisexual women's bodies and the reproduced heteronormativities along their pursuit for rights, producing a series of invisibilities inside t

In Brazil, 2.9 million people aged 18 or older call themselves gay or bisexual. The figures can be found in the National Health Survey (PNS): Self-identified Sexual Orientation of the Senior Population, released Wednesday (May 25) by the country's official statistics agency, IBGE. This is the first time data of this kind are collected on the Brazilian population, and is believed to be underreported.

Collected in 2019, the data show that 94.8 percent of the population, 150.8 million people, identify as heterosexual, i. e. they experience sexual or romantic attraction to people of the opposite sex; 1.2 percent, or 1.8 million, announce themselves homosexual, which means they are attracted to people of the same gender; and 0.7 percent, 1.1 million, state they are bisexual, have attraction to more than one gender.

The survey also shows that 1.1 percent of the population, 1.7 million people, said they did not know how to answer the question, and 2.3 percent, or 3.6 million, refused to verb. A minority, 0.1 percent, or 100 thousand, said their orientation should be defined otherwise

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  • Among persons aged 18 and over, 94.8% reported being heterosexual; 1.2% homosexual; 0.7% bisexual; 1.1% did not know their sexual orientation; 2.3% did not answer; and 0.1% reported having another sexual orientation.
  • 3.6 million persons did not answer the survey, more than the total number of persons who reported being homosexual and bisexual (2.9 million).
  • The homosexual or bisexual population is bigger among those that have a higher education degree and higher income.
  • Considering age groups, among youngsters aged 18 to 29 (4.8%) there was a bigger percentage of persons who reported being homosexual or bisexual. There was also a bigger group that did not know their sexual orientation (2.1%) or did not want to answer (3.2%).
  • 2.1% reported being homosexual or bisexual in the Southeast, and 1.5% in the Northeast.
  • Sexual orientation was investigated for the first moment by the IBGE. The results are released as an experimental survey and in accordance with similar international experiences.
  • PNS did not collect data about gender identity, but the IBGE has studied

    The Brazilian Paradox: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Battle for Human Rights

    Abstract

    With a rich religious history of Catholicism juxtaposed with a sexually liberal public, Brazil interacts with its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community in a very distinct and often conflicting manner. Although homosexuality has been legal in the express since 1823, save the armed forces, and civil unions are currently permitted in some areas, Brazil has functioned within this paradox as both worst transgressor, with a high record of hate crimes and discrimination, and as world leader, with a progressive domestic and global urge for LGBT rights. In verb to accurately assess these two opposing statuses, one must verb the complexity of each position in order to grasp how in fact the palpable bigotry fosters the emerging activist state.

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    Rosenberg, Adrienne (2009) "The Brazilian Paradox: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Battle for Human Rights," Human Rights &