Abstract
This paper analyzes the main changes in judicial discourses on homosexualities based on decisions by the Brazilian Supreme Court and the High Court of Justice from 1989 to 2012. I tried to understand a) the standards of complexification in the forms of State (through the judiciary) exercise of power over bodies and sexualities in recent decades; and b) identify the operation of a process of democratization of social and affective relations by the judiciary. I combined the genealogical analysis of the texts with their classification in a typology for judicial discourses proposed by Rios and Oliveira. I identified a strong democratizing trend of social and affective relationships, processed by the Brazilian judiciary, which became majoritarian since 2011. However, the research also showed a strong tendency to a sort of familist assimilationism, and to the normalization of subjects, affections and sexualities according to heteronormative standards. This reveals an ambiguity risk/potency present in the process of recognition of sexual rights by the Brazilian judiciary.
sexual rights; LGBT; access to Justice; judicial discourses, homosexualities
