While it represents a common form of gender-based violence, misogyny is an oftenoverlooked concept within academia and the queer community. Drawing on queer and feminist scholarship on gay male misogyny, we present a theoretical challenge to the myth that the oppressed cannot oppress, arguing that specific forms of gay male subjectivities can be proponents of misogyny in ways that are unrecognised because of their sexuallymarginalised status. The authors' interest in the doing of misogyny, and its effects on specific bodies and subjectivities, leads us to discuss the extent to which white gay male misogyny can function to reinforce a particular gender and racial hierarchy that continually confines queer femininities to the status of the abject other, for failing to exhibit their feminine credentials and for making gender trouble. We also address how specific markers of femininity are depoliticised through the workings of this misogyny, exploring what femininity does when is conceptualised outside a heteronormative framework. To address these ideas, the authors firstly propose a theoretical account of misogyny in order to understand its analytical status as a cultural mechanism within the psychic economy of patriarchy. Secondly, they use queer approaches to effeminacy and subject formation for making the case for gay male misogyny and its connections to femininity within white gay cultures, asking how misogyny might become an essential component of the performance of hegemonic masculinity. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways in which gay male misogyny reinforces white male dominance over women and queer femininities specifically, advocating for resistance to the reproduction of such patriarchal arrangements.

El debate en torno a la llamada cura gay y las prácticas reparativas o de acompañamiento para individuos que desean cambiar su identidad sexual continúa presente. El artículo propone una aproximación crítica al lugar político de la psicoterapia en el debate actual sobre las ofertas de cambio de las sexualidades no heterosexuales y las formas de articulación de este debate en el contexto chileno. Para ello se discuten 2 dimensiones analíticas específicas. Primero, se revisan algunos de los principales hitos que posibilitaron la invención clínica del exgay y del dispositivo reparativo, discutiendo críticamente el lugar que ocupan la motivación, el esfuerzo y la libertad individual en el contexto en que se comprende actualmente la psicoterapia, particularmente, en referencia a lógicas de responsabilidad individual que serían propias del mercado y del neoliberalismo. En segundo lugar, se analiza el componente ideológico del dispositivo y el carácter contingente de la norma heterosexual, cuestionando la relativa legitimidad que tienen los discursos patologizantes de las sexualidades no heterosexuales en un contexto de disputa político-religiosa sobre los principios normativos que fundan el orden sexual contemporáneo. Palabras clave: heteronormatividad, oferta terapéutica, patologización de la homosexualidad, terapias reparativas The debate around the so-called gay cure and reparative practices or therapeutic accompaniment to individuals who want to change their sexual identity is still active. This article proposes a critical approach to the political place of psychotherapy in current debates around therapeutic offers aimed at changing non-heterosexual sexualities, focusing on the ways this discussion has played out in Chile. With this in mind, 2 specific analytical dimensions are discussed. Firstly, the article reviews some of the main milestones that enabled the clinical invention of the ex-gay and the reparative device, critically discussing the place that motivation, effort, and individual freedom play in the context in which psychotherapy is currently practiced, particularly in relation to logics of personal responsibility that are characteristic of the market and neoliberalism. Secondly, the ideological component of the device and the contingent nature of the heterosexual norm are also analysed, challenging the relative legitimacy of pathologising discourses against non-heterosexual sexualities, in a context where the normative principles of the contemporary sexual order are being contested by politico-religious forces.

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Los vínculos entre hogar, género y sexualidades no normativas han recibido poca atención académica en Chile. En este artículo analizamos discursos, prácticas e imaginarios acerca del hogar en dos hombres gays y una mujer lesbiana de la comuna de Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile, desde una perspectiva biográfica y feminista. Se presentan cuatro dimensiones transversales: 1) hacer hogar como lucha por la apropiación, 2) hogar como un espacio paradojal y de negociación con la norma heterosexual, 3) roles de género y distribución del trabajo doméstico, y 4) relación con el espacio extradoméstico y los imaginarios gays y lésbicos locales. Estas dimensiones muestran que el hogar es un espacio conflictivo donde conviven sentidos en disputa que deben comprenderse de manera dinámica, situada e interseccional.