Between Light and the Closet: the Liquid Condition of ‘Queers’ and their Social Challenges

Abstract

Cultural production in the last decade shows the emergence of new social phenomena, the enunciation of the crisis of the individual, the family and the Government, and others from the discourse of a world without ideologies or big speeches that portray the social panorama. A case is that of queer groups in Bogota and the conceptual and political construction processes planned by their undeniable presence. The article is divided in three parts: the first is a characterization and contextualization of the ‘queer’ and its relationship to the LGBT on a theoretical level. The second is an analysis based on the tensions and paradoxes in the social representations of these actors as a way to understand their dynamics in an epistemological way. The third and final part presents the conclusions that aim to be a point of reflection and not of exegesis in this anti-essentialist territory