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This paper investigates the way LGTBI+ people are represented by conservative and progressive Spanish newspapers. With this purpose in mind, a corpus has been compiled with news items published regarding the ratification of the legal nature of homosexual marriage in Spain on November 6, 2012. As a method, we have analyzed transitivity and the semantic roles of processes as an instrument of the Critical Discourse Analysis methodology. The main results reveal that there is a substantial difference between conservative and progressive newspapers: the prominence given by the conservative press to LGTBI+ people represents just one third of that displayed by the progressive press; the conservative press reduces the levels of consciousness, voice, cognition, desire, emotion and perception as compared to the progressive, which strengthens them. Finally, the conservative press uses negative processes as an LGTBI+ people's intrinsic feature; whilst the progressive uses them to reveal social injustice against them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has as propose to describe and explain the typographical mechanisms of emphasized semantic contest through a critical discourse study of the information notice to be or not to be...? Published by Colombian newspaper Q'hubo in its print July 14, 2010 in Ibagué (Colombia). The analysis allows (re) learn the strategies that configuring the typography morphology used by the newspaper to emphasize exclusive representations and stereotypes about homosexuality. According to the text, this is a confusion of sexual identity that must be diagnosed, treated and cured by professionals in the field of psychology. The categories used as strategies to accomplish the analysis are: the kind of letter, the size, shape and style types and spacing, colors of letters and position on the page. So, I apply these analytical tools of superstructure elements - textual outline - of News Brief (headline, summary, body and micro formats) besides, to analyzing the vignette of the page, and the form ofrecontextualizing of image in the written text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]