“Our flag is not sexuality”

discursive construction in @gaycombolsonaro on Twitter

Authors

  • Gabriel Merlim Moraes Villela Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói – RJ, Brazil , Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói – RJ, Brasil , Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói – RJ, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9242-5991 (unauthenticated)
  • Maria Cristina Giorgi (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil , (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil , (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5347-6115 (unauthenticated)
  • Roberta Calixto Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil , Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil , Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5423-1811 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-58442022122pt

Keywords:

LGBTI movements, Twitter, Heterocissexism, Right movements, Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the discursive construction of the movement Gays com Bolsonaro through its Twitter profile (@gaycombolsonaro). From their discursive practices, we illuminate their alliances with elements of heterocisexism (BORRILLO, 2010; JUN, 2018) and the consequent legitimation of this ideology. Based on the Discourse Analysis (ROCHA, 2014) and on the tweets and retweets of this self-titled “new LGBT movement”, we point out how the formation of this online discursive network – constitutive of this movement – has, as one of its bases, the polemic negation (DUCROT, 1987) that it establishes in relation to the previous movements. In this sense, we note the construction of a type of nationalist discourse that is produced in opposition to the discussions and agendas of the LGBTI movement, contributing to its erasure.

Author Biographies

  • Gabriel Merlim Moraes Villela, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói – RJ, Brazil, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói – RJ, Brasil, Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói – RJ, Brasil

    Undergraduate student in Social Sciences in Federal University Fluminense (UFF), and graduated from high school/technical education at Cefet/RJ, where he developed research in Discourse Analysis, on the production of videos on the Internet by young black LGBTI people. He is a researcher linked to the Laboratory of Analysis and Research in Democracy and Cities (LADEC-UFF), to the International Policy Analysis Group (GAPIUFF), to the research groups Studies on Violence (UFF) and Discursive practices in the production of social identities: human factors, organizations, work, technology and society (Cefet-RJ). Gabriel is dedicated to the areas of political science, discourse analysis and education, focusing on studies of gender and sexualities, online political participation, media and forms of violence.

  • Maria Cristina Giorgi, (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil, (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil, (Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil

    Holds an undergraduate degree in Portuguese and Spanish from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), a master in Linguistics (2005), from the same institution, and a doctorate in Language Studies from the Fluminense Federal University (2012). She is a permanent professor at the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic-Racial Relations and the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy and Teaching at the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca (Cefet/RJ), where she has been working since 2005. She is a productivity research fellow at CNPq and JCNE at Faperj, and leader of the research groups Discursive practices in the production of social identities: human factors, organizations, work, technology and society (Cefet-RJ) and Language practices, work and teachers’ formation (UFF).

  • Roberta Calixto, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brasil

    Doctorate student in Linguistics at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (ILE-UERJ). Master’s degree in Ethnic-Racial Relations from PPER/Cefet-RJ, with emphasis on applied linguistics. She has focused her research on the relationship between language and neoliberalism. Her dissertation emphasizes the relationship between nationalist discourses in Brazil and their effects on neoliberalism and racism. She is part of the group Discursive practices in the production of social identities: human factors, organizations, work, technology and society (Cefet-RJ). CAPES Scholarship. She is interested in race, gender, discourse analysis, neoliberalism and education. She also holds a degree in Design from the Pontifi cal Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ). She has experience in the fi eld of Industrial Design.

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Published

2022-12-05

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Vol. 45 (2022)

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“Our flag is not sexuality”: discursive construction in @gaycombolsonaro on Twitter. Intercom - Brazilian Journal of Communication Sciences, São Paulo, v. 45, p. e2022122, 2022. DOI: 10.1590/1809-58442022122pt. Disponível em: https://revistas.intercom.org.br/index.php/revistaintercom/article/view/3924. Acesso em: 25 nov. 2025.