Abstract
The article focuses on gender diversity and seeks to fill a significant gap in the treatment of this topic in the countryside, in Brazil, through workshops carried out with adolescents in schools from Agrarian Reform settlements in Paraná (2015-2017). In the rural areas, the research found a differentiated and non-linear appropriation of gender diversity’s projection by the television media in the context of homosexual marriage being legalized in Brazil (2013), as well as notable generational tensions resulting from the acceptance, by young people, of homosexual relationships and homoparentality. The research concluded that the systematic knowledge made available by formal education mitigated occasional setbacks among young people, propitiated the revision of prejudice, reduced homophobia and promoted attitudes of respect for distinct forms of family organization and experience of sexuality.
Gender; Diversity; Rural Youth; Formal Education