Narratives of affective-sexual LGBT identity in school contexts: appearing to the Other

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present some of the results of an investigation regarding narratives of LGBT individuals from the premise that diversity is part of the opportunity to appear to the other from the condition of self; condition that is built from the norm and resistance. A qualitative methodology that uses the narrative interview was implemented in order to appreciate the experience of the self that shaped individuals in school settings. A remarkable result is the configuration of a process of appearing that includes five stages experienced from the less to the more comfort, in addition to a becoming process framed among the norms and the unrecognized forms, showing a self-experience which triggered situations where difference was repressed towards the development of a normative education.