Brutality on display: media coverage and the spectacle of anti-LGBTQ violence in the Colombian Civil War

Figures & data

Figure 1. El Espacio, 27 November 1985.

Source: National Museum of Colombia. Photo of Newspaper Coverage by Author. January 2023.

A front-page article of the tabloid El Espacio; the title in a large red font reads ‘They are massacring travestis’.

Figure 2. El Espacio, 10 October 1988.

Source: National Museum of Colombia. Photo of Newspaper Coverage by Author. January 2023.

A front-page article of the tabloid El Espacio; the title in a large red font reads ‘Crime’ and the accompanying image is a cartoon mock-up of the crime scene, with much blood splatter.

Figure 3. El Espacio, 28 March 1995.

Source: National Museum of Colombia. Photo of Newspaper Coverage by Author. January 2023.

A front-page article of the tabloid El Espacio; the title in a large red font reads ‘Tomb for a travesti’. The accompanying image has been censored with a white black box by this journal article’s author.

Figure 4. El Espacio, 6 November 1992.

Source: National Museum of Colombia. Photo of Newspaper Coverage by Author. January 2023.

A centrefold article of the tabloid El Espacio; the title in a large red font reads ‘Travesti shot to death’. The accompanying images have been censored with large white boxes by this journal article’s author.

Figure 5. El Espacio, 6 December 1991.

Source: National Museum of Colombia. Photo of Newspaper Coverage by Author. January 2023.

A front-page article of the tabloid El Espacio; the title in a large red font reads ‘Orgy and death at a party of “gays”’. The accompanying images have been censored with large white boxes by this journal article’s author.