Relacionamentos amorosos e homossexualidade: revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

This study had as an objective to present an integrative review of scientific national and international literature about same-sex relationships. The following databases were consulted: SciELO, LILACS, PePSIC, Oxford, Wilson, Ovid e EBSCO, 2000 to 2013, and 20 articles were retrieved, most of them theoretical studies. Studies about marriage and parenthood exerted by homosexual couples are predominant, and also references to public policies and cultural and historical aspects involved. The study highlights the need for more empirical research with homosexual characters, who will let us advance in relation to the predominantly theorizing tendency of produced kno wledge. It must also be prioritized peculiarities of homoaffective relations rather than their comparison with heterosexual arrangements, which ends up reinforcing the assumption of heteronormativity.