HISTORY OF THE PRESENT TIME: CURRENT AND PAST INTERTWINED IN ANANALYSIS ABOUT SCIENTIFIC DISSEMINATION ON LGBTQIA+ HEALTH
The present work analyzed aims at similarities and differences between scientificdissemination texts on LGBTQIA+ health published in the 1980s and 1990s, and thosecurrently disseminated. It also intends to discuss whether scientific dissemination hascontributed or contributes to the pathologization of LGBTQIA+ people. We established acomparison between texts by journalists, published in Jornal O Globo, in the 1980s and1990s (used in my master's dissertation), and current publications (from 2018 to now),made by different professionals, all doctors, and dedicated to scientific dissemination onLGBTQIA+ health: Ricardo Vasconcelos, an infectious disease specialist, who has acolumn on the VivaBem channel, from Universo Online (UOL); Vinícius Borges, aninfectious disease specialist, who uses his Instagram account to make the posts; andthe 'Consultório LGBTQIA+', a column on the website of doctor Jairo Bouer, also hostedat UOL, composed of four other doctors, who define themselves as doctors (the letter 'e'in the syllable 'ques' was used to write a neutral word, which does not allude to thefemale or male gender, and therefore includes people who do not identify with eithergender: Bruno Branquinho (psychiatrist), Patrícia Carvalho (gynecologist andobstetrician), Pedro Campana (infectologist) and Vinícius Lacerda (surgeon ) digestive).The four declare themselves LGBTQIA+ and write about health issues for LGBTQIA+people. In order to carry out such a comparison, the history of the present time (HPT)comes into play, an area of historical studies that shifts the focus of research from thepast to the present, in order to understand how events in the past have an impact onthe present. The method to evaluate the documents will be a critical discourse analysis(CDA), a theoretical-methodological approach that allows investigating the way in whichlinguistic forms work in reproduction, maintenance and social transformation. Inaddition, we use collective health as a field of analysis, since it is a research area thatinvolves an intersection of knowledge and presents complexity due to the coexistence ofparadigms: multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity.