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Introduction <p>This article analyzes how LGBTIQA+ people living in two urban contexts in Chile (Santiago and Talca) experience the combination of openly hostile discourses from far-right candidacies and the strategic silences of sectors that define themselves as progressive in the context of the 2025 presidential election.</p> Methods <p>Drawing on a qualitative study based on interviews and focus groups with eight LGBTIQA+ participants, a reflexive thematic analysis was conducted to identify patterns of shared meaning.</p> Results <p>Three thematic axes are presented: (a) anticipatory fear in the face of the advance of conservative and ultraconservative sectors, experienced as a concrete threat to the continuity of rights and to physical integrity; (b) selective safety and the experience of second-class citizenship, in which state protection is perceived as a privilege restricted to normative bodies; and (c) complicit silences on the part of progressive blocs, the instrumental use of sexual and gender dissidence, and the subjective effects on life projects, decisions regarding legal gender transition, and fantasies of political asylum.</p> Conclusions <p>The findings show how political debate in Chile, by reproducing heterocisnormative discourses and practices, both explicit and through silence, creates spaces of distress for LGBTIQA+ populations. Policy Implications: Implications for public policy, professional practice, and future research are discussed, particularly the need to address heterocisnormative and masculinizing discourses and practices in political narratives as constitutive of structural violence and thereby mitigate their negative effects on LGBTIQA+ people.</p>

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Between Hatred and Silence: the Psychosocial Impact of Heterocisnormative–Masculinizing Discourses and Practices in Political Discourse Toward LGBTIQA+ People in the 2025 Chilean Presidential Election

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    2026年3月4日

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  • Wilson Orlando Albornoz Fuentes

摘要

Introduction

This article analyzes how LGBTIQA+ people living in two urban contexts in Chile (Santiago and Talca) experience the combination of openly hostile discourses from far-right candidacies and the strategic silences of sectors that define themselves as progressive in the context of the 2025 presidential election.

Methods

Drawing on a qualitative study based on interviews and focus groups with eight LGBTIQA+ participants, a reflexive thematic analysis was conducted to identify patterns of shared meaning.

Results

Three thematic axes are presented: (a) anticipatory fear in the face of the advance of conservative and ultraconservative sectors, experienced as a concrete threat to the continuity of rights and to physical integrity; (b) selective safety and the experience of second-class citizenship, in which state protection is perceived as a privilege restricted to normative bodies; and (c) complicit silences on the part of progressive blocs, the instrumental use of sexual and gender dissidence, and the subjective effects on life projects, decisions regarding legal gender transition, and fantasies of political asylum.

Conclusions

The findings show how political debate in Chile, by reproducing heterocisnormative discourses and practices, both explicit and through silence, creates spaces of distress for LGBTIQA+ populations. Policy Implications: Implications for public policy, professional practice, and future research are discussed, particularly the need to address heterocisnormative and masculinizing discourses and practices in political narratives as constitutive of structural violence and thereby mitigate their negative effects on LGBTIQA+ people.