Communication for Inclusion in Universities: Study of the Perception of LGBTQI+ Actions at the Complutense University of Madrid
Universities are meant to be places of personal and intellectual development. In theory, they are designed to be a safe place for students, where they can express themselves without fear. However, certain vulnerable groups continue to struggle to be able to assert their identities. In this sense, five principal categories of social inequality can be identified: socio-economic and urban-rural, gender, ethnic and racial, disability, and age (Gairín and Suárez, 2012). There are groups at risk of exclusion in a society still dominated by prejudices and stereotypes in each category. Among these groups is the LGBTQI+ community, since people who do not follow sexual and gender norms tend to be punished with bullying and hidden curricula in school environments (Elipe et al., 2015).
