Da (im)possibilidade do diálogo: Conversações Públicas e os direitos LGBTs

Abstract

This study discusses the use of the Public Conversation Project (PCP) strategies in the promotion of dialogues about civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Four group meetings were audio-recorded and fully literally transcribed afterwards. The analysis focused on the identification of arresting moments, which were discussed in the articulation with PCP technique, social constructionism and contemporary discussions about ethics and human rights. PCP conversational structure favors the creation of conditions appropriate to dialogue once it adjourns the necessity of producing immediate solutions and agreements. Therefore, considering the artificiality of this conversational context, this strategy should be better understood as a resource for sensitization, focused on the expansion of descriptions about the other and without substituting other forms of social activism.