The invisibility of homosexuality in a third world country in developing countries: Costa Rica
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- Natin Guzmán (CR) Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
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The aim of this paper is to state out some ideas about how the Costa Rican society perceives homosexuality. This perception is mostly strengthened and supported by political, social and cultural paradigms. The essay also stresses how the homosexual is invisibilized as well as stereotyped and typified by his/her gay orientation, and not by the fact that he/she is a human being. Besides this, the article also shows the fight homosexual minority groups have struggled during the last decades in order to reach social, political and family rights putting aside all kind of discrimination and xenophobia and looking an integral well-being for homosexuals.
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