Dilemas da visualidade jornalística das violências contra pessoas LGBTQ+ e contra mulheres heterossexuais no Brasil

Abstract

In Brazilian journalistic texts, the difference between the images of cases of violence against cis and heterosexual women and those against LGBTQ+ people are astonishing. In the case of LGBTQ+ people, the images are usually brutal, with exposure of blood and bodies injured by various weapons. The coverage of cases of violence against cis and heterosexual women is the opposite: the images tend to be inconclusive, often showing landscapes of places where crimes occurred, sometimes showing the faces of perpetrators and victims and never scenes of blood or bodies with marks of aggression. In this article, we take the textual instability as a starting point to reflect on the contrast between the ways of journalistic treatment in Brazil conferred to these two violences and what impacts on the understanding about the relations that conform the visuality and the visual culture.