Viviendo dentro de una familia heteronormativa: el caso de los jóvenes homosexuales de Puno

Abstract

Homosexuality is a sexual orientation or preference present in human sexuality throughout its historical development. However, it is still considered as a taboo subject, therefore, it is not investigated a lot by social scientists in Peru. With this in mind, this article aims to describe and understand how young homosexuals live their sexual orientation in their intra-family environment. For this purpose, within the qualitative approach framework, the ethnographic method and the use of the semi-structured interview and participatory observation techniques were used to obtain the necessary data to achieve the proposed objective. These research techniques were applied to 9 young homosexuals from the city of Puno. The results obtained were that young people consider their families as homophobic, preventing them from fully accepting themselves, making their sexual orientation invisible and causing uncertainty in the face of a possible disclosure of their sexuality within their families. With these data, it is concluded that young homosexuals have internalized the homophobia transmitted within their family nucleus.