“…1) Legal issues(Ascensão, 2011;Barroso, 2010; Batista, 2010;Chaves, 2013;Manhoso, 2013; Oliveira 2017, among others) and adjacent issues, such as the study conducted byBrandão and Machado (2012) who examine the content of petitions, draft bills and parliamentary procedures on the legal recognition of same-sex unions; 2) gay marriage associated with family transformations(Torres et al, 2013) or gender issues(Barros et al, 2019;Elísio et al, 2018 ); 3) marriage and adoption as rights (Vale deAlmeida, 2006Silva, 2014); 4) perceptions, attitudes or representations and prejudice about same-sex couples and same-sex parenthood(Alves, 2018;Cardeira et al, 2015;Cardoso, 2011;Costa et al, 2013Costa et al, , 2014Costa et al, , 2018Gato et al, 2012; Gouveia & Moser, 2019;Oliveira et al, 2014;Poesch et al, 2015); 5) same-sex families and heteronormativity(Aboim et al, 2013; Nico, 2011; Santos, 2013).…”