Abstract

OLIVEIRA JUNIOR, Isaias Batista de  and  FERREIRA, Diego Raone. A decade of mutiny over unpublished material: representations of a former chief Executive on the 'gay kit'. Acta Educ. [online]. 2026, vol.48, e73905.  Epub Nov 01, 2025. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v48i1.73905.

This descriptive research aims to categorize and analyze the discourses supported by Jair Bolsonaro's Theory of Social Representations, in the 2018 and 2022 electoral periods, about the ‘gay kit’. To materialize the objective, we used content analysis through two categories: ‘Is it possible to continue discussing this subject? It's disgusting’: social representations of a State Deputy and ‘We will continue to fight this type of material’: fake news in the 2018 electoral campaign. We infer that the representations in decisive moments of democracy have shaped the last years of Brazilian Education in terms of violence against LGBTQIAPN+ students, such as the removal of Programs and Projects, the extinction or dilution of portfolios, the pathologization of homosexuality and its invisibility in public, social and educational policies. Perhaps, when you come across this text, you are facing a new political scenario, perhaps, you find yourself within the same vortex shaped in the last decade. And if you have come this far, it is because such discussions are dear to you. It is up to us, educators and social scientists, based on reified representations, to break through the amalgam of common sense so that we can guarantee basic and fundamental rights such as freedom and equality for the entire LGBTQIAPN+ population, whether in the school context or outside it.

Keywords : social representations; ‘gay kit’; LGBTQIAPN+ violence; fake news.

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