Gender equity, sexual identities and diversity are emerging themes within the scope of
Applied Linguistics/LA fields of study and poles of intense discussions to address the
importance of respect and mechanisms to combat prejudice. And the school is the appropriate
place to form people aware of this problem. Therefore, the objective of the research was to
analyze in which context the curricular proposal of municipal and state schools in Tocantins,
Brazil, includes or excludes themes about identity guidelines, including sexual diversity and
secular injustices about gender. As a methodological subsidy, I used documentary
bibliographical research (FIGUEIREDO, 2007) and OLIVEIRA, 2007). After data collection,
the issues raised from the bibliographical research were analyzed with discussions based on
authors and laws that regulate the studied area. The research is characterized in a qualitative
perspective, involving an exploratory investigation, seeking to deepen the knowledge about
the educational guidance. The analysis focused on carrying out an approach in the historical
context and the possible debates on sexual diversity and gender equality and I verified which
advances and setbacks - in its pendulum movement - that goes from the New School
movement, passing through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, until the fifth
article of the Federal Constitution and its effective creation of a system with molds of
universal, public and secular education. And in this perspective, I introduced the guidelines,
the curricular documents and the pedagogical discursive practices, in the school scope, with
the research directed towards the National Curricular Parameters (PCN), the National
Curricular Guidelines (DCN), the National Education Plan (PNE), and the new National
Common Curriculum Base for Early Childhood Education and Elementary Education
(BNCC). Another highly prioritized focus in my dissertation is related to the discursive
perspectives on gender and sexuality in public schools and what these topics reverberated in
the ultraconservative political context in Tocantins.
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