Por los caminos de Sodoma: confesiones íntimas de un homosexual (1932) narrates the sentimental education of a young homosexual in a society that repudiates him. This article addresses the historical significance of the novel in light of a possible queer Colombian literary tradition. As opposed to most of the criticism the novel has faced, and following authors such as Judith Butler and Sylvia Molloy, I highlight the novel’s disruptive potential, its frontal opposition to the conservative society of its time and the ways the novel prefigures the irruption of homosexual subjectivities in the public sphere.