ACTIONS AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA IN CONTINUED EDUCATION PROJECTS FOR EDUCATORS

Abstract

This text deals with the experience in educating sexual educators, at the State University of Londrina (UEL) - PR, especially in the period from 2006 to 2007 in which the community project was expanded, joining the Programa Brasil Sem Homofobia (Program Brazil Without Homophobia) (MEC/SECAD, from Brasília). ln this way, Study Groups on Sexual Education (SGSE), developed since 1995, were strengthened by other actions, such as: assistance to professionals who had already taken part in the SGSEs; organization of events on the theme in order to deepen learning as well as to enable participants' proximity with homosexuals and also to touch others to struggle against homophobia; organization of workshops on sexual diversity in schools; publishing and free distribution of books on the theme. lnserted in an emancipatory Sexual Education perspective, the experience has been a clear demonstration of how the teaching about sexuality needs to be linked to social struggles, having among them the struggle against oppression, discrimination and violence.