Rompendo o silêncio: a informação no Espaço LGBT do Estado da Paraíba

Abstract

The work aims to present the Centro Estadual de Referência dos Direitos de Lesbicas, Gays, Transexuais e Trangêneros e Enfrentamento à Homofobia da Paraíba (Espaço LGBT). Aims to profile the users of this agency and provide statistical information about homophobic violence. The lack of official information about the profile of users of specific services and care about the context of discrimination and prejudice against the LGBT population appears as one of the challenges for the management and prevention of homophobia. Thus, mediation of a professional archivist is fundamental to enhance thein formation flow. We used the descriptive and quantitative research, documentary sources, more specifically in thecurrent archives (analogue and digital) with the assistance of 781 records of the period between 2011 to 2014. For data analysis we used descriptive statistics. It was found that, by means of the quantitative data produced, that vulnerability and exclusion permeate the LGBT population served and that public policiescan beimprovedif implemented based on reliable information.Thus, the joint of the Archivology with LGBT themes and an archivist's presence in non-traditional informational unitsas the espaço LGBT is paramountto confront homophobia, and various types ofinequalities.