Background:

Behaviors experienced in an academic environment may trigger experiences that imply psychic suffering, impact one’s relationships and quality of life, besides compromising daily activities. Influencing these issues are the socioeconomic conditions of the student, compatibility of the study with the insertion in the labor market, age, gender, determination and willingness to continue.

Aim:

To understand the experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersexual, asexual, among others (LGBTQIA+) university students in order to explore the factors that imply psychic suffering.

Methods:

Sistematic review of articles published between 2009 and 2019, in the databases: Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), US National Library of Medicine (PubMed) and Virtual Health Library (VHL). Inclusion and exclusion criteria, and the PRISMA method were followed.

Results:

Eight articles were selected and grouped into two thematic categories: campus climate and intervention measures. Understanding the university environment as a safe space allows the expressiveness of the student as an LGBTQIA+ individual for aspects experienced at the University are related as possible predictors of depression, anxiety, self-aggression and suicidal behaviors. As for intervention measures, strategies resulting from the interaction between LGBTQIA+ student mobilization groups and the University's inlaws are exposed in order to reinforce to everyone on campus that anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior is not tolerable nor acceptable.

Conclusions:

the attitude towards LGBTQIA+ themes, as well as the experiences lived by said students, may affect their psychological and physical health. For breaking the heteronormative pattern of sexuality and gender, only its recognition is not enough, it is necessary to construct a paradigm where diversity is the norm.

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