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Intersectionality of sociocultural senses of well-being in the LGBTQ+ experience in the Colombian Caribbean

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This article examines the sociocultural perspectives that shape LGBTQ+ experiences in the Colombian Caribbean using narratives produced through participatory exercises of memory, dialogue, and reconstruction. The study adopts a qualitative hermeneutic approach and develops a thematic analysis supported by co-occurrence matrices, the Jaccard index, and semantic networks, which make it possible to identify association patterns between terms and build a multi-scale structure. The results are organized into three analytical categories—Territory, Communication, and Resistance—that synthesize the ways in which LGBTQ+ people inhabit, narrate, and contest their local realities. The territorial perspective shows how physical and symbolic spaces of the coastline influence notions of belonging, risk, and opportunity. The communicative perspective highlights the role of narratives, memories, and cultural expressions in shaping identity and recognition. The perspective of resistance reveals situated forms of agency, mutual support, and community expression in response to structural exclusion. Together, these perspectives illuminate consequences for individual and collective well-being, showing how territory, communication, and resistance generate conditions for dignified life and sustainability in peripheral contexts. The discussion incorporates intersectionality to analyze how gender, class, racialization, rurality, and historical memory structure differentiated situations of vulnerability and political action, with effects on recognition and well-being. The study concludes that LGBTQ+ experiences in the Colombian Caribbean emerge at the intersection of territory-space, communication-narrative, and resistance-agency, producing in-context repertoires of meaning and ways of life embedded in specific socio-territorial dynamics. It contributes analytical elements for territory-sensitive public policies, educational strategies of recognition, and community interventions attuned to Caribbean realities.

Source: Wellbeing Space and Society

DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2026.100436

Authors: Luis Ricardo Navarro-Díaz, Diana Luz Barrios Márceles, Delia Alejandra Madriz Rodríguez, Juan Diego Hernández Albarracín, Antonio José Bravo Valero

Institutions: Universidad Simón Bolívar, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Language: English

Topic: LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,899