'Vou fazer você gostar de homem': casos de estupro e lesbianidades em registros policiais e produções jornalísticas

Abstract

In this work, we discuss reports of rape cases involving lesbianities registered in Minas Gerais between January 2019 and January 2023. Our reflection primarily occurs based on police reports, the REDS, and journalistic articles about the cases. In addition to the cases in our sample reported by the media, we have accessed other journalistic reports involving rape and lesbian identities. We are interested in observing how heteronormativity operates in the news about these crimes, as well as identifying characteristics and recurrences in the approaches present in police and journalistic reports on the cases. We understand that the reports produced by public security institutions are journalistically appropriated; however, in journalistic productions, there is an erasure of the victims' lesbian identities, which prevents a better understanding of the specificities of such crimes, while the version of the rapists gains visibility in all the analyzed articles.