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Historia Crítica
versión impresa ISSN 0121-1617
Resumen
CORREA MONTOYA, Guillermo Antonio y CARMONA GARCIA, Omar Julián. “All Sorts of Feathered Creatures”: Social Representations of Homosexuality by the Press in Antioquia (Colombia), 1960-2000. hist.crit. [online]. 2024, n.92, pp.71-95. Epub 08-Mayo-2024. ISSN 0121-1617. https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit92.2024.04.
Objective/Context:
This article explores, from the perspective of cultural history, the social representations produced by the press about homosexuality in Antioquia (Colombia) during the second half of the twentieth century. In doing so, it aims to approach the figure of the sexual monster, the ridiculous homosexual, the infectious “faggot”, the individual explainable by science, and the subject who conquers its citizenship and disputes its rights.
Methodology:
The discourses and representations of homosexuality in the newspapers Sucesos Sensacionales, El Colombiano and the radio newspaper El Clarín were identified; an interpretative matrix was constructed by cross-referencing cultural elements of the context with journalistic representations.
Originality:
The period 1960-2000 corresponds to an unexplored period on the subject. Its revision is articulated with the observation of previous and parallel representations of the processes of homosexual liberation and the conquest of rights: the decades of 1960-1970, the emergence of hiv/aids in 1980, and the appearance of a series of social organizations around the anti-aids struggle in the 1990s accompanied by the juridical-political path traced by social movements.
Conclusion:
During this period, a homosexual subject emerges who, in addition to being outlined by the media, begins to postulate an image of himself that tensions the field of representations. Despite pointing to changes associated with freedoms and rights, the novelties in the press - influenced by international and local contexts and contested by everyday practices that claimed sex/gender dissidence - also pose a conservative counter-response that reinstates old ghosts and prejudices. Thus, this is not a linear and progressive history that moves from darkness to light, that is, from a dark past of violence and denial to the conquest of rights, but reflects diverse continuities and simultaneities in the representation of homosexuality.
Palabras clave : Colombia; cultural history; homosexuality; sex-gender dissidence; social representations..