An inherited persecution

morality and decency in Brazilian redemocratization

Abstract

This paper analyses how institutionalised censorship in Brazil during the civil-military dictatorship (1964 - 1985) still reverberates in its democracy, revealing how this practice was used to maintain a conservative morality that marginalises discourses on gender and sexuality. The article focuses on the banning of works and projects that deviate from heteronormativity, indicating a movement that demonstrates prohibitions as a strategy of exclusion and perpetuation of violence against the LGBTQI+ community. In summary, the study reveals that censorship in Brazil is a practice that transcends the historical context of the dictatorship, operating as a mechanism that controls and shapes the collective imagination and regulates social behaviour even today.