Victims and homosexuality: violating the rights of a minority: being visible or not in a concrete jungle?

Abstract

The research proposal is based on the prevailing need to focus on a population that for years has been unprotected by the State, allowing society to attack its physical, psychological and material integrity. Thus, throughout the document, it will be related what it means, at the social level, to be openly homosexual and the impact that this has had on the life of each of the subjects that, as a result of their gender identity and sexual orientation suffered abuses, violation and vulneration of their rights. Then it is intended that the reader situates himself in time and space in order to achieve empathy regarding the crimes against humanity and the victimization of the gay population in Colombia wondering about the most common vulnerabilities suffered by homosexual victims, and the psychological impact that this has had in their physical and material level, including also their life project. To this end, the semi-structured interview technique was used, which allowed emerging questions to be formulated as the meeting developed. Finally, the results obtained gave an account of the situation of violation of rights of the gay community and its scope in the orbits that circumscribe the human being: social, political, economic, environmental, family and individual framed in International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights and national laws.