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Brutality on display : media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War
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Third World quarterly, 2024, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 903-925
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RITHOLTZ, Samuel Max, Brutality on display : media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War, Third World quarterly, 2024, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 903-925 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76724
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During the Colombian Civil War, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people were targeted by armed actors for reasons related to ideology and strategy. Even with the generalised violence in Colombia during this time, there was significant public interest in this specific form of violence, as evidenced by its tabloid coverage. The nation’s main tabloid – El Espacio – covered this violence against LGBTQ people in graphic detail. Twenty years of coverage (1985–2005) includes a range of gory graphics and horrific headlines that show the pain of a persecuted community in a highly violent context. In this article, I focus on this media coverage of anti-LGBTQ violence, notable for its brutality and prejudice, to argue that its spectacle built on a stigma that reinforced the cleavage of its victims from the body politic through a legitimation of the violence. In doing so, the coverage of this violence became a weapon of war that depoliticised the subordination of an entire population in a society beset by an internal armed conflict.
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Published online: 11 March 2024
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This research was funded by Green Templeton College, the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development and Latin American Centre, the Society for Latin American Studies, and the European University Institute.