Visible or legitimate? Transitions from collective action to affirmative action for the rights of homosexual people in Colombia

Abstract

This essay presents an analysis of the transformations that have been created in collective action for the defense of the demands and rights of homosexual persons in Colombia, in the transition from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century, taking as a starting point the emergence of the Homosexual Liberation Movement in the 1970s-1980s, centered on the logic of recognition and visibility, and mobilization initiatives that placed hiv as a matter of urgent attention during the 1990s. Which we have called the paradox of invisibility, to reach contemporary advances in legislation and the idea of “rights” as constitutive of the struggles for the legitimacy of homosexual people in the country taking as a fundamental axis the identification in the word lgbti.