Latinx Queer Psychology

This book brings together studies that contribute to the emergence of a latinx queer psychology. LGBTQ+ studies have gradually included the perspective of sexual and gender diversity, but they have been predominantly elaborated from North American and European perspectives. This book focuses on different understandings and practices developed by Latin American researchers that contribute to a broader application of psychological knowledge in LGBTQ+ studies, as well as sexual and gender diversity issues, but goes beyond the region by also incorporating chapters written by European and North American authors influenced by latinx perspectives.

Latin American psychology has developed original approaches to LGBTQ+ studies based on a new theoretical critique to the mainstream psychological theories that has given rise to a new queer psychology. The chapters in this book showcase both theoretical contributions and empirical researches in this emerging field from six Latin American countries – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay – as well as from Spain, the United States and Puerto Rico.

Latinx Queer Psychology: Contributions to the Study of LGBTIQ+, Sexual and Gender Diversity Issues aims to contribute to the decolonization of psychological knowledge and practices addressing sexual and gender diversity issues, and to serve as a useful resource for social, community, clinical and educational psychologists working with research and practice involving LGBTIQ+ populations, as well as to social scientists in general interested in queer and gender studies.    

Reynel Alexander Chaparro holds an MSc and a PhD in social psychology from the National University of Colombia. He created the student group Psychological Intervention and Sexual Diversity in which community intervention projects were developed on topics related to sexual orientations, gender identities and the link between religion/spirituality and sexual diversity. His work has been focused on the understanding of sexual and gender diversities, as well as LGBTIQ+ identities, and their dynamics in different contexts of health intervention, both in Colombia and Brazil. Since 2016, he is the representative of the Colombian College of Psychologists (COLPSIC) in IPsyNet, the International Psychology Network for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Issues, of the American Psychological Association (APA).

Marco Aurelio Maximo Prado is a full professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where he is the director of the Research Group in Human Rights and LGBTI citizenship. He holds a PhD in social psychology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship in the Brazilian Studies Chair at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has conducted research about political participation and LGBTI rights, transgender and public health in Brazil, and the construction of criminalization in transgender identities by the judicial discourse. Marco Prado is currently teaching in the Graduate Program in Psychology of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, working on an interdisciplinary perspective about gender, sexuality, and politics in Brazil. He has also published research articles in scientific journals and he is a co-author of many books about gender, homosexuality, transgender experience, social psychology perspectives, and political thoughts in social psychology.