WEBJOURNALISM AND SENSE CONSTRUCTION: an analysis of the news about the LGBT population in G1 Tocantins

This article analyzes the journalistic production of news that addresses themes involving the LGBT population (Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transsexuals). Portal G1 Tocantins was chosen to be the object of study of this work collecting news from the year 2017, considered the year with more deaths of LGBT people compared to the last three years. After submitting the corpus to content analysis and sentiment analysis, the results indicate that the media can assist in the construction of meanings, often negative, about the LGBT community and that there is still a lot to be done in the problematization before the different forms of discrimination, oppression of the LGBT community