ABSTRACT
The acronym LGBTI is nowadays used as an adjective and a noun to pack gendered and sexualised subjects and identities. LGBTI has been acquiring a life by itself, separated from the particular histories and politics unified in the term and appears more as an imagined community with its own existence. This chapter suggests that the increasing use of LGBTI, particularly associated with issues of rights, expresses a reconfiguration of gender and sexual politics in international, regional and local arenas. Such reconfiguration is not just about the limits or possibilities of identity politics. LGBTI, as a packing of disparate identities, mobilisations and struggles, expresses a reframing of gender and sexual politics as a result of professional activism and the neoliberal state. In this perspective, LGBTI is not just a term or a discourse but a conglomerate of political and cultural practices. The chapter discusses state policies in Colombia that recognise the rights of LGBTI victims of armed conflict as an example of the uses of LGBTI politics to react victimisation and to allow some citizens to exist under limited political. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the politics underlying LGBTI politics.
