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Social representations toward the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer community are framed in a social context influenced by upbringing and social imaginary. Given that these collectively and generationally elaborated ideas have affected the right to happiness of LGTBI+ groups, the main objective of this study was to reveal what these social representations are in a rural area of Palmar de Varela/Atlántico-Colombia, and how they have affected the right to happiness of these groups. Qualitative methodology applied to results obtained by open and in-depth interviews applied virtually to 12 participants was used to interpret social processes. Our analysis showed evidence of discrimination, negative opinions, little social interaction with people belonging to the group, lack of acceptance, lack of equality and little respect for the right to a full and happy life. The participants based their opinions primarily on beliefs instilled from generation to generation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The migratory phenomenon has been approached over decades from the different approaches that compose it. In this sense, it is often thought that poverty and violence are the only factors that push people to leave their communities, however, in recent years it has been observed that the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender population, Transvestite, Intersex, Queer, Asexual (LGBT+) is displaced for reasons of gender violence, in particular the transsexual community. Through a series of interviews and ethnographic work, it has been possible to document part of the incidents that they suffer along the way, in order to make known the different degrees of vulnerability experienced by transsexual male and female migrants in Central America. and Mexico, especially because it is a recent phenomenon scarcely analyzed and poorly documented by the academic community, which kept migrant transsexual women and men in a situation more than invisible by the academy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the most emblematic festivity of Alvarado, a town located in the Sotavento region of Veracruz. It is the so-called encierro de burros, in which men dressed in women's clothes, parade in dancing troupes and allegorical cars, mocking a traditional cavalcade that women of the city's elite carried out since the 19th century. From an anthropologycal qualitative approach, centered on the way people signifies its actions, we examine how what we call "festive or carnavalesque transvestism" reinforces heterosexual, homophobic and violent masculinity, while making invisible the important participation of women and the gay community during the festivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hegemonic masculinity is defined as the ability of human beings to use masculinized characteristics and traits as a method of control and domination of those who feel vulnerable. In this research, we developed and validated an instrument that measured the perception of gay men in Puerto Rico in the face of the problem of hegemonic masculinity. As a correlative strategy we used a gender violence perceived scale in order to identify whether the perception of hegemonic masculinity responds to or is compared with the perception of gender-based violence within the gay community. The sample was composed of 271 Puerto Rican participants over the age of 21 and self-identified as gay. The hegemonic masculinity scale gets a factorial structure of two factors with sound psychometric properties. As well, our findings suggest that the selected sample recognizes that the intragender violence exists and rejects masculinized hegemonic behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a possibility of theoretical-methodological synergy for addressing different social problems. This is a work that explores the participation of the gay community in the social world configured in Chilean cyberpress texts between 2012-2017. The exploration is carried out from the theoretical-methodological articulation of the sociosemiotic APPRAISAL and IDEATION systems assigned to functional systemic linguistics to illustrate the relationship between social change and discursive change. The discursive analysis from these systems reveals that the gay community represented in the corpus constitutes an agent of social transformation, because it denounces homophobic violence and defends the victims, questions political and religious authorities, promotes changes and legal reforms and is recognized as political interlocutor before the events produced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here is studied mainly what marriage is. By the way, the analysis shows how this debate has profound consequences in the common good and how its protection should be regulated. With a systematically method, authors review the most important opinions about marriage, for and against the usual notion, and then they weigh their consistency. The analysis is divided into two parts. In the first one is defined the notion of the authentic marriage and the consequences that it has on the common good (consequences that justify the State's actions in this matter). There are analyzed all kinds of romantic unions, monogamous or not, taking care of the public interest that they can present. Part II considers all of the serious concerns that are not treated earlier: the objections from conservatism (Why not spread traditional norms to the gay community?), from practicality (What about partners' concrete needs?), from fairness (Doesn't the conjugal conception of marriage sacrifice some people's fulfillment for others'?), from naturalness (Isn't it only natural?), and from neutrality (Doesn't traditional marriage law impose controversial moral and religious views on everyone?). The main conclusion is that marriage understood as the conjugal union of man and woman really serves for the good of the children, the good of the spouses, and the common good of the society; these benefits do not occur in the same way in same sex marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a current analytical review of the vital contributions, especially from Latin America and other countries, in the theoretical-research construction of the urban space, with a gender perspective, specifically homosexual. In order to show how the gay community and men live interconnected spaces that occupy and where they produce meanings of different forms within the city. And in this way contribute in the understanding of the adjacent forms in the creation of spaces for emancipatory practices in the urban and social, since the homosexual dynamics and the public space, are one of the substantial components of the city. For this purpose, the exploration of books, scientific articles and research was carried out from the decade of the nineties until now. Where it was possible to identify theoretical conceptions, thematic axes, as well as particular problems found in the different fields of research. In the same way, pending challenges are expressed regarding the development of the spatial manifestations of homosexuality currently. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article shows how the roles of homosexual socialization spaces in Paris, Madrid and Mexico City have changed their roles from housing ambiguous and undefined sexual subjects to being part of processes of specialization and delimitation of urban spaces at the same time as homosexuality was being constituted as an identity. We also found that, due in part to the need to respond to the marginalization caused by AIDS, new values, discourses, representations and practices appeared that would lead to the masculinization of the image of the homosexual male, and therefore to its normalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we examine some socio-political implications of the processes of construction of the gay community in Madrid in relation to community level interventions to prevent the spread of HIV. To that end, we partially present the outcomes of an ethnographical research on the diversity of practices and representations - and therefore subjectivities - that can be found among men who have sex with men (MSM) who visit commercial venues for sexual encounters in the gay scene in Madrid, Spain. First, the ways of thinking, acting and feeling about those venues of three types of patrons (the "well-adjusted", the "periphericals" and the "marginals") are described. We conclude by drawing some implications for community interventions that can be derived from the heterogeneity of practices and representations to be found among patrons of those venues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]