Caminhos do Sexílio: cartografando experiências de pessoas LGBT+ em contexto de deslocamento compulsório

Abstract

This study aimed to map the experience of sexile in the lives of LGBT+ people who were compulsorily displaced from their territories of origin due to hostile family and social environments. The concept of sexile, coined by Manuel Guzmán in 1997, is understood as a form of forced displacement arising from the impossibility of remaining, produced by heterocisnormative structures, which constitutes a form of vulnerability not yet recognized in Brazilian public policies. The theoretical and methodological framework is anchored in Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy, taking cartography as a research-intervention method, in articulation with psychoanalysis and Judith Butler's notion of precarity. The decolonial perspective guided the epistemological position of the research, while the dialogue with queer theory underpinned the conceptual discussion of sexile. To examine the relationship between this phenomenon and the state apparatus, the concept of necrobiopower was articulated with John Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Model (1995) in order to understand why sexile has not entered the Brazilian policy agenda. The empirical material consisted of nine semi-structured interviews conducted between September and October 2025 with LGBT+ individuals who experienced forced displacement. The analysis of these narratives showed that sexile unfolds through coexisting movements of estrangement, departure, and arrival, shaped by a non-linear temporality in which arrival remains suspended. The findings indicate that the institutional invisibility of this phenomenon operates intentionally as a technology of dehumanization, keeping displaced LGBT+ lives in a state of permanent precarity, without the statistical or conceptual categories that would render them legible to the state apparatus. The study concludes that recognizing sexile as a category within Brazilian public policies is a necessary condition for systematically unprotected lives to cease being invisible to the State.