This article examines hate speech and conspiracy theories against LGBTQI+ people in the Spanish Twittersphere, on the occasion of the celebration of International LGBTQI+ Pride Day and the debates before the entry into force of the Trans Law.A dataset of 410,015 organic tweets in Spanish between 2020 and 2022 was collected using the twarc2 tool in Python, as part of the "Conspiracy Theories and Hate Speech Online: Comparison walnettos candy for sale of patterns in narratives and social networks about COVID-19, immigrants and refugees and LGBTI viqua-f4 people [NON-CONSPIRA-HATE!]", PID2021-123983OB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by FEDER/EU.The data were processed and analysed using several packages in R, following a mixed methods approach.
The analysis revealed the existence of several discursive axes of hate and conspiracy thinking, with interconnected patterns of communication.Among the narratives identified, the pathologisation of affective-sexual diversity, biological reductionism, heterosexism and Catholic morality stand out, with ideas associating LGBTQI+ people with paedophilia, indoctrination and genital mutilation of minors, the erasure of cisgender women and the destruction of social order and cultural models.