FROM SILENCE TO LGBTQIAPN+ WELCOMING IN INDEPENDENT MEDIA
Keywords:
LGBTQIAPN+, gender studies, mediation, independent media, infocommunicational dynamicsAbstract
This article analyzes the infocommunicational dimension of LGBTQIAPN+ welcoming in texts published by Agência Diadorim, an independent media outlet focused on human rights and gender and sexual diversity. In dialogue with queer perspectives, welcoming is understood as a practice of listening and naming that publicly reinscribes experiences shaped by silencing and stigma. The study adopts a qualitative, documentary, and discourse-oriented approach, based on a corpus of thirteen opinion articles published in the first four months of 2021. The analysis shows that the texts produce welcoming by revisiting historically stigmatized memories, denouncing institutional forms of violence, and disputing LGBTQIAPN+ presence in media, cultural, and political-institutional spaces. The results indicate that Agência Diadorim transforms experiences of erasure into matters of public circulation, producing meanings of recognition and resistance. It concludes that LGBTQIAPN+ welcoming constitutes a relevant infocommunicational practice for Information Science, as it shows how journalistic documents can mediate memory and take part in the struggle for informational justice.