Crises, New Modalities of Social Struggle and the Emergence of LGBTIQ+ Discourses as Revulsive and Autonomous Responses in the Field of Argentine Comics (2016–2020)

This chapter aims to analyze LGBTIQ+ narratives in the Argentinean comic's scene in recent years. In a context of economic crisis, emergence of hate speeches by the new right wing, added to an impoverishment of the middle class and the cultural industry in general, LGBTIQ+ narratives arise as forms of resistance in adversity, especially among young people. Based on critical visual theory and the sociology of the image, the chapter attempts to explore the relationship between intersectionality (Crenshaw 1991) and the decolonial gaze from these realities in crisis to which these comics respond in aesthetic and political ways.