Que ousadia é essa? A adoção “homoafetiva” e seus múltiplos sentidos

Abstract

The subject of this dissertation is about parenting through adoption by gays and lesbians in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, the analysis was devoted to understand the place of sexuality when an applicant for adoption is identified as "homoaffective". For such purposes, the speeches of judges, childhood and youth promoter, public defenders, psychologists and social worker were taken into account regarding qualification and adoption processes. The senses of family and parenting by gays e lesbians families who have adopted are also addressed. The resultant data about adoptive parenting by gays e lesbians also reflect larger social issues around the requirements of sexuality and gender on the culture of parenting and family in Brazil. The social transformations in which such themes have been experienced, amidst tension and controversies, are also alluded. The centrality falls on the Law 12010/09. This emphasis refers to the changes that this scenario represents to foster national practice, which result from the changes it proposes to the previous legislation. Furthermore, the analyses about the Supreme Court decision to equate for analogy "homoaffective" unions to stable unions, devotes itself to identify the impacts of this practice in foster. Based on these legal changes on the national scene, both on the adoptive practice and on the gays and lesbians rights, these processes are proven to be valuable analytical tool, since they have contributed to verify how the practice has used these legal mechanisms. Thus, the analysis was concerned to understand the multiple meanings that have been produced in the relation between family, sexuality and adoption.