Existências não cisheteronormativas e dano existêncial : as sexualidades dissidentes e seus atravessamentos na construção do projeto de vida de LGBTQIA+

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the exist as a person (in the sense of being) LGBTQIA+ and its relationship with conditions of vulnerability capable of producing existential damage. The existential damage includes a damage to the life’s relationship and the person’s life project. There is also a reflection that the high suicide rate of LGBTQIA+ people, especially teenagers and young people, may be related to a possible existential damage suffered, due to physical, verbal and psychological violence, homophobia, segregation and denial of otherness, exposure to cisheteronormative discourse and the violation of human rights that members of this society are subjected to. We consider the emergence of desire and sexually as a human condition not susceptible to choice, change, correction or control by the subjects. Being a dissident of cisheteronormativity is something that puts LGBTQIA+ people in a vulnerability condition, since the familiar, social, religious discourse are cisheteronormative, not recognizing, accepting and tolerating other ways of sexuality expressions, may also directly impact on the construction of personality of these people, and increase the risk of depression and suicide in this group.