Fanzines como ferramenta de expressão da comunidade LGBTT: identidade e cidadania

Abstract

It is a research that aims to analyze the fanzines of the collection "Only Babado", created by the inmates of the Imelda Lima Pontes Prison Unit, as a tool for the expression of the community of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite and Transsexual (LGBTT). This collection of fanzines is produced by the group "Girls Who Shine" initially formed by inmates of the House of Provisional Deprivation of Freedom III Agent Elias Alves da Silva. After rebellion in 2016 the inmates were transferred to the Prison Sister Imelda Lima Pontes. Both institutions are located in the state of Ceará. The research was guided by methodological course constituted by the qualitative approach, by the method of research documentary analysis and by the technique of content analysis with the establishment of categories. The documentary corpus has nine printed publications, one of which is produced in 2014, five in 2015 and three in 2016. The number of this corpus is due to the difficulty of access to publications, coupled with the scarcity of copies available to the public, and because they are of works that initially only had as target public the internal population of houses of provisional deprivation of liberty, occasion al visitors and the relatives of the inmates. The results demonstrate that the fanzines are used as a tool for expressing the intern alones, aimingt the construction of the citizen profile, which passes through the individual's awareness of the identity, which makes them engage more in the struggle for theirrightsandestablishcloserrelationshipswiththoseoftheircommunity, forming a powerful social network in which they feel safe to assume their individuality, tracing strategies to change their reality. It is concluded that in writing and publishing the fanzines of the collection "Only Babado!", The interns can ask for intercession, communicate harassment and abuse, and see themselves as part of a society, that in the future, when they are released, they will see them more another stigma, that of ex-offenders. Therefore, the relevance of this means of communication and expression, to promote awareness, moments of discussion, reflection, give voice and time to those who are reclusive, but want to be seen beyond prejudice and intolerance.