Right to the city for LGBTQI+ community: from the family violence into street population’s ingress

Abstract

This paper proposes to reflect on how the relationships that gender and sexuality variants can exert in the production of urban space, more specifically how these relationships are perceived and included – or not – in the elaboration and planning of urban agendas and urban public policies, mainly housing, through the hypothesis
that there is a specific demand for social housing that is invisible and composed of the LGBTQI+ community (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite, Transsexual, Queer, Intersex and others), not quantified in conventional methods of deficit measurement and, in parallel, not prioritized in the main Brazilian housing programs.