Queer Intersectional Outreach Actions to Prevent LGBTQ+ Prejudice and Discrimination in Schools: The Brazilian Context and Analysis of a Local Experience

Abstract

This chapter describes and analyzes “queer intersectional outreach work” aiming to prevent and fight prejudice and discrimination against LGBTQ+ students in Brazil. To do so, the first section of this chapter introduces a brief history of education on sexuality and gender diversity in Brazil, as it was under the development of sexual education policies that queer intersectional outreach work emerged. The second part of this chapter describes queer intersectional outreach work carried out by graduate and undergraduate students and supervised by faculty members of our research group. This work was mostly conducted in public schools in the city of Porto Alegre, in the South of Brazil, and the activities discussed here were conducted exclusively in the public school system. Our experience taught us that in extremely unequal societies like Brazil, intersectional framing is crucial to the planning and analysis of outreach actions/work.