Positive discrimination and negative discrimination of people with non-normative sexuality in the labor context

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Sandra
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Matos, Fátima, Mesquita, Rafael Fernandes, Henriques, Marco Ribeiro, Cardoso, Aldryn
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.4.2020.96-111
• topic: Sexualidade Não-Normativa; Discriminação Negativa; Discriminação Positiva; Positive Discrimination; Negative Discrimination; Non-Normative Sexuality

Homosexual workers are constantly victims of discrimination in the workplace. This discrimination can be negatively felt (when your sexuality impairs your experience in the organization), or in a positive way (when in some way your sexuality contributes to your experience in the organization). Thus, the objective of this work was to investigate the aspects that characterize the two types of discrimination (positive and negative) current in the organizational context of workers with a non-normative sexuality. From a qualitative approach, we conduct semi-structured interviews with homosexual workers (gays and lesbians). The results showed that homosexual workers are still highly stigmatized within their organizations and that discrimination based on sexual orientation, although envisaged in the Criminal Code as a crime and protected by the Labor Code, is still a reality based on organizations, affecting both the role of the homosexual worker and his affective life. It was concluded that, although most of the respondents revealed that they were only victims of indirect discrimination, homosexual’s stigma is still very much rooted within organizations.