BENITEZ, Dayneris; PEREIRA, Leyanis    ORTA, Yudit. SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN YOUNG CUBAN UNIVERSITIES. []. , 3, pp.41-58. ISSN 2550-6722.

The present descriptive, traverse study, with qualitative methodological focus and emphasis in the subjective dimension, was carried out in future professionals of Social Cultural Studies Major, living at Agrarian University of Havana (UNAH) in the Student Residence with the objective to describe the social representation of homosexuality in the selected group. The techniques employed to perform the study were association free of words, drawing, scale of social distance and the semi structured interview. The main results obtained evidenced that the attitude toward the object of study is of high intensity acceptance. Even when the main representation contents deal with the recognition of social discrimination that homosexuals suffer and the claims of the necessity of social acceptance, some distorted considerations that understand homosexuality like an illness and an unnatural practice are evident.

: homosexuality; homosexuality's perception; social representation; youth.

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