DISSIDENT OLD AGE AND POLITICAL ABANDONMENT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF MEDIA DISCOURSE ON LGBTQIA+ AGING

Abstract

This article analyzes journalistic discourse on the aging of the LGBTQIA+ population in Brazil, with an emphasis on the systematic absence of representations of black gay men in old age. Based on a corpus composed of articles published between 2023 and 2025, a qualitative critical-interpretative approach is adopted, grounded in post-critical and decolonial paradigms. The method used is Critical Discourse Analysis, articulated with theoretical references on body, race, sexuality, and old age. The results show the operation of a programmed invisibility, sustained by discursive silences, deserotization, and affective-political abandonment. It is concluded that media discourses produce a regulated representation of LGBTQIA+ old age, excluding subjects who deviate from the white, cisgender, and heteronormative norm. The study points to the need to reconfigure epistemologies and discursive practices that recognize the centrality of black, dissident, and aging bodies in the production of memory, desire, and citizenship.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/edimpacto2025.084-026