Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
It presents a brief survey on information sources on sexual diversity and gender identity contained in the Fond of the Division of Security and Information of the Ministry of Justice, corresponding to the omnipotent National Intelligence Service (SNI), during the military dictatorship in Brazil. This documentation is at the National Archive of Rio de Janeiro and the methodological reference of the work is the perspective of archives as memory, considering the paradoxes of this relation in terms of their role as testimonies of past occurrences, as well as expressive – and disturbing – apparatus of the present. In this sense, it seek to reveal how these documents picture people that diverge of cis- and heteronormative binary logic, seeking to contribute, on one hand, to the knowledge about the sedimentation of prejudices against minorities and violations of basic human rights, as well as to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) build new meanings of their own subjectivities in relation to what, persisting in the condition of memory about their existence, is perpetuated in time through discriminatory and intolerant attitudes or resistance and transgression to hegemonic social norms. The intention is to explore a field of research that is unprecedent or very incipient in Brazilian archival studies, emphasizing the issue of access to information sources for social research. This paper comes from a communication given at the VIII Seminário de Saberes Arquivísticos (SESA) in August 16th to 18th, 2017.
