HISTORY OF THE PRESENT TIME: CURRENT AND PAST INTERTWINED IN ANANALYSIS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION ON LGBTQIA+ HEALTH
The present work, a qualitative, bibliographical and documental research, analyzes scientific dissemination texts on LGBTQIA+ health, published in the 1980s and 1990s, and others, currently disseminated: writings by journalists and doctors, published in the newspapers O Globo and O Estado de S. Paulo, and recent publications (from 2016), made by different professionals, including journalists, doctors and a nurse, on various platforms. To develop such an analysis, which proposes to understand whether the dissemination of writings about health, dedicated to the lay public, accompanied the transformations that society went through, the History of the Present Time (HTP) is applied, an area of historical studies which shifts the center of research from the past to the present, with the aim of understanding how past events have repercussions in the present. The method for evaluating the documents involves Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), a theoretical-methodological approach that allows investigating the way in which linguistic forms work in the reproduction, maintenance and social transformation, as well as subjectivity journalism. We also carried out semistructured interviews with 03 doctors, who are scientific popularizers, and they are part of the analysis. From the evaluation of the publications, we noticed that positive changes (advances in the number of topics discussed, in terms of the vocabulary used in the texts and in terms of dissemination channels and depth of discussions) occurred in the way of addressing LGBTQIA+ health. However, despite this, we note that it is still possible to find speeches that do not contribute to such a healthy debate on issues related to LGBTQIA+ health.