Sexualidades periféricas. Una mirada sociológica hacia la transgresión sexo-genérica de la población LGBTIQ de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The present investigation has as its center of analysis the LGBTIQ population of Cuenca and as its objective, a look into its historic context in the last two decades, aside from its actual reality, its limitations, successes and challenges within society. Simultaneously, mainly through the queer theory, building the categories that configure sexuality, revealing the heteronormative logic, the same denying the legitimacy of sexual diversity, generates stigmatism and exclusion. In Cuenca’s case, starting from 1997, where homosexuality was decriminalized, until recently, you could say that a positive evolution has existed in regards to the social and political aspects, reflected in the social changes and the conquest of determined political struggles.Nevertheless, still these sexualities are vulnerable, above all the transsexual population, whom are less visible, taking into consideration visibility as the capacity of being visible and exteriorizing a reality or specific situation, that which at a simple glance is not easily observable. It is important to mention that being outside heterosexuality brings the individual to take on a personal, family oriented, social and even political process, since transgressing the normal sexual dominant mind frame, implies suffering in the majority of cases discrimination in some space of social life, even today.