{"id":32428,"date":"2021-06-28T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=32428"},"modified":"2021-07-01T18:16:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T18:16:17","slug":"religious-lgbti-and-the-importance-of-the-dispute-for-space","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/religious-lgbti-and-the-importance-of-the-dispute-for-space\/","title":"Religious LGBTI+ and the importance of the dispute for space","content":"

For the singer and actress Linn da Quebrada, the sacred is one of the many spaces from which transvestites are excluded. \u201cI like to think that we are all unique in the eyes of God. This is why I can only believe in a God that also believes in my existence,\u201d she said, in an interview with the newspaper <\/span>O Globo<\/span><\/a>. \u201cI try to create in music a space for us to rethink the sacred, as a process of healing our bodies, of taking care of our spirit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In different ways and in different contexts, not only transvestites and trans people, but also gays, lesbians, bisexuals, non-binary and other people who transgress sexual and gender norms also feel the impact of exclusion from sacred spaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Maryuri Grisales, an advisor for the Strengthening Democratic Space program at Conectas who heads up the organization\u2019s Religious Mobilizations and Rights Agenda initiative, the LGBTphobic discourse from religious leaders on behalf of a divine authority has a big influence. \u201cWhen someone says you are going to hell because of your sexual conduct, many people may not care, but deep down there is a connection with the symbolic religious universe that was built over the course of life, in the family, at school, in our day-to-day routines. This discourse creates the idea that you are totally outside of universal law, outside the faith, outside the norm and of what is considered acceptable,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Grisales, this discourse has had real effects that are visible in the numbers of murders and suicides of LGBTI+ people, in domestic violence and in the difficulty finding a job. These matters are often related to narratives involving a rejection of the existence and sacredness of these lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2020, according to the latest report from the organization Grupo Gay da Bahia, 237 LGBTI+ people suffered violent deaths in Brazil, 94.5% of them due to homicide and 5.5% from suicide. In absolute numbers, deaths were recorded of 161 transvestites and trans people, 51 gays, ten lesbians, three trans men, three bisexuals and two heterosexual men mistaken for being gay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fundamentalist impact<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI am a Candombl\u00e9 woman and a lesbian. The only reason I\u2019m married is because the Supreme Court guaranteed the possibility of union between same-sex couples,\u201d said the lawyer Laina Cris\u00f3stomo, a joint city councilor of the shared mandate Black Women for Salvador, formed by evangelical and Candombl\u00e9 women. \u201cIn Brazil, LGBTI+ victories have been achieved through the Supreme Court, which is not the natural course of the legislative process. This, undoubtedly, is a reflection of how the political discourse of the fundamentalist caucus impacts our lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the joint city councilor, it is necessary to deconstruct the false dichotomy that creates a rift between religiosity and people who transgress sexual and gender norms. \u201cThere is no contradiction between being religious and being LGBTI+; what exists is the need for us to combat the discourses that oppress us. I can\u2019t be part of a religion if it tries to put me back in the closet,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need to be accepted in our religion, because this has to do with our ancestry, our spirituality.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cris Serra, who runs the National Network of Catholic LGBT Groups, describes some of the violence and aggression that commonly occurs in Catholic environments, such as prayers of liberation and exorcisms. \u201cThis discourse creates the idea that an LGBT person is unclean, unworthy of loving and of being loved by God,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is devastating emotional, spiritual and psychological symbolic violence.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Serra, although religious violence is real, it is important to challenge the spaces of religious power. \u201cWe need to realize that the field of ecclesiology is more diverse than this homogeneity that the official discourse tries to push on us. Accepting this supposed homogeneity only serves the interests of the authorities that want to impose this discourse as the only possible truth within the Church, by erasing voices that think and feel differently.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Protestants against the norm<\/b><\/p>\n

In the Protestant context \u2013 consisting of different segments, including evangelical churches \u2013 it is also possible to find spaces to practice a faith based on diversity. \u201cOne of the greatest achievements of the Protestant Reformation is Luther\u2019s understanding that each person should have their own experience with the biblical text. In other words, there is no one single way to be evangelical in the world,\u201d said Reverend Bob Luiz Botelho, the general coordinator of the group Evangelicals for Diversity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like Serra, Botelho also identifies LGBTphobia in some of the Christian discourse and understands its impact on people\u2019s lives, but he thinks it is important to make your presence felt and declare your existence. \u201cIt\u2019s important to create this tension, to generate debate and discomfort. Lots of people tell us not to waste our time with a faith that does not accept us, but for a long time the State did not accept us either. And you can\u2019t give up on the State, so I challenge the State. In the same way, let\u2019s not give up on the religious world. To give up is to hand power to those who attack us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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