Challenges to the social workers' work with LGBTQIA+ population in the pandemic

Abstract

Based on bibliographical research, the article discusses the challenges of social workers' work with the LGBTQIA+ population, in face of COVID-19. Acting in the front line of the fight against the new coronavirus, social workers find themselves on the razor's edge. There are many challenges faced by the population studied, such as the dismantling of basic services, bureaucratization of access to the social protection network, various forms of discrimination and extermination, institutional violence, among others.  The professional exercise, through the ethical lens, opposes the mercantilization of access and the prevailing authoritarianisms, which inhibit the exercise of citizenship of the strata most affected by the traditional values of the family and the bourgeois class. The idea is that social workers should have as their horizon the guarantee of rights, the articulation with social movements and the participation in spaces of the category and public agencies, in times of recrudescence of inequality.