Thematics in construction: The development of LGTB studies in Costa Rica, 1980-2013

Due to the lack of a bibliographical balance that shows the development experienced by sexual diversity as a research subject applied to the case of Costa Rica, a search was made with the aim of processing the texts through a data base, looking to describe and analyze their main characteristics. Among the results it was found that there has been an increase in the number of researches during the last three decades, the majority of texts has been published in Costa Rica, most of the contributions come from the School of Psychology in the Universidad de Costa Rica, there has been a change in the themes, going from HIV/AIDS in the eighties, to a multiplicity of topics such as legislation, same sex couples and trans sexuality. There are still pending subject- matters to explore such as intersexuality, bisexuality, the intersection between sexuality and other power structures.