Queer Theory: Change of paradigm, new methodologies for social research or an encouragement for better life standards?

Abstract

This article deals with queer theory, which has been developed since the 1980s, and its implications in the way of thinking and research on the topic of identity of sex and gender. Entailing a new vision of humanism, where individual and group differences can be accepted as well as a research methodology that may be useful for the studies in this field.