Quando o afeto ganha a esfera midiática: casos de sujeitos homoeróticos e estratégias jornalísticas para enquadrar as vozes de leigos e especialistas

Abstract

This research focuses on how deliberation occurs in media, activating the knowledge of experts and non experts in two cases that involve GLBT collective (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender people): 1) the controversy related to children adoption by homosexual individuals or couples that received the attention of newspapers from Minas Gerais and from the whole country since October 2001, when a judge from the metropolitan area of Belo orizonte granted a child guard for a transsexual and his partner, and 2) the media coverage of the legal procedures related to the Bill 694, which became the Law 14.170 that guarantees the freedom of public demonstration of affection. The objective was to analyze how the assimilation of the expert and non expert speeches occurred through the construction of framings elaborated by newspapers. It was possible to conclude that, while the judges decision allowed the ewspapers to talk about a victory of affection, the second case of thisdissertation took its own way. This frames provided by the newspapers focused on the value of equality in our society, which, in the end, became the most important issue. Both cases have in common the great amount of visibility provided by the media, which places constraints to the declarations of the experts or non experts.