LibGuides: Williams Institute Reading Room: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resources in Law and Public Policy: Latin America & the Caribbean

Latin America & Caribbean, Page Guide

Latin America & The Caribbean: Reports

"They Can Harass Us Because of the Laws": Violence and Discrimination against LGBT People in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Human Rights Watch (July 20, 2023)
"We Just Want to Live Our Lives": El Salvador’s Need for Legal Gender Recognition, Human Rights Watch (July 18, 2022)
"I Became Scared, This Was Their Goal": Efforts to Ban Gender and Sexuality Education in Brazil, Human Rights Watch (May 12, 2022)
“Every Day I Live in Fear”: Violence and Discrimination Against LGBT People in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and Obstacles to Asylum in the United States, Human Rights Watch (Oct. 7, 2020)

Latin America & the Caribbean: Films

Threshold. Coraci Ruiz (Video Project, 2021). DVD Collection HQ18.55 .T47 2021; Film information. An autobiographical documentary of a mother following the process of her teenager's gender identity journey (Brazil).

Krudas. Opie Boero Imwinkelried (Frameline, 2006). DVD ML421.K78 K78 2016; Film information (short documentary about Krudas Cubensi, the queer, feminist, Afro-Cuban hip hop MCs)

The Abominable Crime. Micah Fink (Common Good Productions, 2013). Streaming via Kanopy (UCLA only); film website. Homophobia in Jamaica.

Translatina. Directed by Felipe Degregori; translated by Ricardo Delgado; subtitled by Ivan D'Onadio (Buenletra Producciones, 2010). [In Spanish.] DVD HQ77.95.P4 T73 2010. Transgender people in Peru.

And the March Continues! = Y Sigue la Marcha Andando! Guadalupe Olvera San Miguel (Frameline, 1997) DVD HQ76.8.M6 A53 1997; *Film information. History of the lesbian movement in Mexico. Also streaming via Alexander Street.

Latin America & the Caribbean: Spanish/Portuguese

Violencia Homofóbica en América Latina y Chile. Jaime Barrientos Delgado. (Santiago: El Desconcierto, 2015) HV6250.4.H66 B377 2015

Cuando las lesbianas hablamos. Cristina Arévalo Contreras. (Nicaragua: Programa Feminista La Corriente, 2013) HQ75.6.N5 A75 2013 *At Young Research Library.

INFORME: Acceso a la Justicia y derechos humanos de lxs TILGB en Ecuador, 2010-2013. Asociación Silueta X.com (2013) HQ76.8.E2 I54 2013

Cartografías queer: sexualidades y activismo LGBT en América Latina. Daniel Balderston, Arturo Matute Castro (compiladores). (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh, 2011) HQ73.3.L29 C37 2011 *At Young Research Library.

Demografía de lo otro: biografías sexuales y trayectorias de emparejamiento entre varones en la Ciudad de México. Gabriel Gallego Montes. (Colegio de México, 2010) HQ76.2.M62 M489 2010 *At Young Research Library.

Hombre con hombre, mujer con mujer y viceversa: Colombia gay. Francisco Celis Alban. (Intermedio, 2009) HQ76.3.C7 C45 2009

Ser gay en la Ciudad de México: lucha de representaciones y apropriación de una identidad, 1968-1982. Rodrigo Laguarda. (Instituto de Moras; CIESAS, 2009) HQ76.2.M6 L35 2009 *At Young Research Library.

La transexualidad en Cuba. Mariela Castro Espín, compiladora. (Editorial Sexual, 2008) HQ77.95.C9 T73 2008 *At Young Research Library.

Todo sexo es político: estudios sobre sexualidades en Argentina. Mario Pecheny, Carlos Figari, Daniel Jones (compiladores). (Libros del Zorzal, c2008) HQ75.6.A7 T63 2008

Bandera hueca: historia del movimiento homosexual de Chile. Victor Hugo Robles. (Editorial Arcis; Cuarto Propio, 2008). HQ76.8.C5 R63 2008 *At Young Research Library.

El disciplinamiento social de la sexualidad: informe federal sobre discriminación en los códigos de faltas y contravencionales. (Instituto Nacional Contra la Discriminación, la Xenofobia y el Racismo; Ministerio de Justicia, Seguridad y Derechos Humanos, 2008) [Argentina] KHA451 .D57 2008

Los imprudentes: historias de la adolescencia gay-lésbica en Argentina. Josefina Licitra. (Tusquets, 2007) HQ76.3.A7 L535 2007

Los rostros de la homofobia en Bogotá: des-cifrando la situación de derechos humanos de homosexuales, lesbianas, y transgeneristas. Erik Werner Cantor. (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional: Promover Ciudadana, 2007) HQ76.8.C7 W476 2007

Masculinidad e intimidad: identidad, sexualidad y SIDA. Guillermo Núñez Noriega. (Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género : Colegio de Sonora: Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2007) [Mexico] HQ1090.7.M6 N86 2007

Otros cuerpos, otras sexualidades. José Fernando Serrano Amaya, editor. (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Instituto Pensar, c2006) [Colombia] HQ73 .C53 2006

La cuestión gay: un enfoque sociológico. Ernesto Meccia. (Gran Aldea Editores, 2006) [Argentina] HQ76.3.A7 M43 2006

Vidas em arco-íris. Edith Modesto. (Record, 2006) [Brazil] HQ76.3.B6 M63 2006

Los nombres del arco iris: trazos para redescubrir el movimiento homosexual. Braulio Peralta. (Nueva Imagen, 2006) [Mexico] HQ76.8.M6 P47 2006

La noche es joven: la sexualidad en México en la era del SIDA. Héctor Carrillo. (Oceano, c2005) HQ18.M4 C3718 2005

Voces excluidas: legislación y derechos de lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y transgeneristas en Colombia. Investigación y redacción, Luis Andrés Fajardo Arturo ; asesoría, Marcela Sánchez Buitrago ; edicion, Miriam Cortes Benítez. (Colombia Diversa, 2005) KHH451 .F35 2005

Historia de la homosexualidad en la Argentina: de la conquista de América al siglo XXI. Osvaldo Bazán. (Marea, c2004) HQ76.3.A7 B39 2004

El SIDA en México: veinte años de la epidemia. Donato Alarcón Segovia, Samuel Ponce de León Rosales, compiladores. (El Colegio Nacional, 2003) RA643.86.M6 S53 2003 (*At Young Research Library.)

Homossexualidades, cultura e política. Celio Golin e Luis Gustavo Weiler; Roger Raupp Rios, et al. (Editora Salina, 2002) [Brazil] HQ76.3.B6 H65 2002 (*At Young Research Library.)

De amores y luchas: diversidad sexual, derechos humanos y ciudadanía. Jorge Bracamonte Allaín, editor; Richard Parker ... [et al.]. (Programa de Estudios de Género, 2001) HQ76.2.L29 D43 2001 [Latin America: Congresses]

Un amor que se atrevió a decir su nombre: la lucha de las lesbianas y su relación con los movimientos homosexual y feminista en América Latina. Norma Mogrovejo. (CDAHL: Plaza y Valdés, 2000) HQ75.6.L29 M65 2000

El SIDA en México: los efectos sociales. Francisco Galván. (Ediciones de Cultura Popular; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana--Azcapotzalco, 1988) RA644.A25 S52 1988 (*At Young Research Library.)

Latin America & the Caribbean: English

The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me About (Desiring) Men by Manuel Betancourt
Call Number: HQ76.2.C62 B48 2023
ISBN: 9781646221479
Publication Date: 2023-05-30
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas--all in the service of helping us reframe how we talk about (desiring) men--this insightful memoir-in-essays is as much a coming of age as a coming out book Manuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity--in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and television he avidly watched, Betancourt saw glimmers of different possibilities. From the stars of telenovelas and the princes of Disney films to pop sensation Ricky Martin and teen heartthrobs in shows like Saved By the Bell, he continually found himself asking: Do I want him or do I want to be him? The Male Gazed grapples with the thrall of masculinity, examining its frailty and its attendant anxieties even as it focuses on its erotic potential. Masculinity, Betancourt suggests, isn't suddenly ripe for deconstruction--or even outright destruction--amid so much talk about its inherent toxicity. Looking back over decades' worth of pop culture's attempts to codify and reframe what men can be, wear, do, and desire, this book establishes that to gaze at men is still a subversive act. Written in the spirit of Hanif Abdurraqib and Olivia Laing, The Male Gazed mingles personal anecdotes with cultural criticism to offer an exploration of intimacy, homoeroticism, and the danger of internalizing too many toxic ideas about masculinity as a gay man.
*Also available online (UC users only)
Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean by Nikoli A. Attai
Call Number: HQ73.3.C27 A883 2023
ISBN: 9781978830363
Publication Date: 2023-07-14
In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region's engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing "on the ground" and creating transgressive communities within the region.
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua: Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements by Karen Kampwirth
Call Number: HQ73.73.N5 K39 2022
ISBN: 0816542791
Publication Date: 2022-06-21
The modern political tumult of Nicaragua includes revolution, dictatorship, and social movements. LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua explores the untold stories of the LGBTQ community of Nicaragua and its role in the recent political history of the country. Karen Kampwirth is a renowned scholar of the Nicaraguan Revolution, who has been writing at the intersection of gender and politics for decades. In this chronological telling of the last fifty years of political history in Nicaragua, Kampwirth deploys a critical new lens: understanding politics from the perspective of the country's LGBTQ community. Kampwirth details the gay and lesbian guerrillas in the 1960s and 1970s, Nicaragua's first openly gay television wizard in the 1980s, and the attempts by LGBTQ revolutionaries to create a civil rights movement and the subsequent squashing of that movement by the ruling Sandinista party. She analyzes the shifting political alliances, the rise of strong feminist and LGBTQ movements in Nicaragua, and the attempts by the administration of Daniel Ortega to co-opt and control these movements. Ultimately, this is a story of struggle and defeat, progress and joy. This timely book provides a well-documented review of LGBTQ politics in modern Nicaragua, helping us to see the Sandinista Revolution and its ongoing aftermath in a new light.
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Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic by Ana-Maurine Lara
Call Number: HQ73.3.D65 L374 2021
ISBN: 1978816499
Publication Date: 2020-12-18
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic.
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Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City by Anahi Russo Garrido
Call Number: HQ75.6.M6
ISBN: 9781978807532
Publication Date: 2020-06-12
Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women's sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The book shows how these individuals reconfigure relationships through marriage, polyamory, friendship, and sex. Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy suggests that "new" intimate cartographies are emerging in Mexico City, ultimately redefining relationships, gender, and mexicanidad. Building on ethnographic data collected over the past decade, including forty-five in-depth interviews with women between the ages of twenty-two and sixty-five participating in LGBT spaces, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy shows how lesbian women (mainly cis, but some trans) negotiate friendship, same-sex marriage, polyamory, and sexual practices, reinventing love, eroticism, friendship, and ultimately the social organization of Latin American societies.
*eBook (UC users only)
Exile Within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary by James N. Green
Call Number: HQ76.3.B6 G74 2018
ISBN: 1478000678
Publication Date: 2018-10-19
Herbert Daniel was a significant and complex figure in Brazilian leftist revolutionary politics and social activism from the mid-1960s until his death in 1992. As a medical student, he joined a revolutionary guerrilla organization but was forced to conceal his sexual identity from his comrades, a situation Daniel described as internal exile. After a government crackdown, he spent much of the 1970s in Europe, where his political self-education continued. He returned to Brazil in 1981, becoming engaged in electoral politics and social activism to champion gay rights, feminism, and environmental justice, achieving global recognition for fighting discrimination against those with HIV/AIDS. In Exile within Exiles, James N. Green paints a full and dynamic portrait of Daniel's deep commitment to leftist politics, using Daniel's personal and political experiences to investigate the opposition to Brazil's military dictatorship, the left's construction of a revolutionary masculinity, and the challenge that the transition to democracy posed to radical movements. Green positions Daniel as a vital bridge linking former revolutionaries to the new social movements, engendering productive dialogue between divergent perspectives in his writings and activism.
*Also eBook (UC only):Exile Within Exiles
"I Have to Leave to be Me": Discriminatory Laws Against LGBT People in the Eastern Caribbean by Francisco Berreta
Call Number: HQ76.45.W47 B47 2018
Publication Date: 2018-03-21
A Human Rights Watch report; also available online.
Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean by Lyndon K. Gill
Call Number: HQ76.3.T7 G54 2018
ISBN: 0822368587
Publication Date: 2018-06-07
*At Young Research Library.
In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde's use of the erotic as theory and methodology. Gill turns to lesbian/gay artistry and activism to insist on eros as an intertwined political-sensual-spiritual lens through which to see self and society more clearly. This analysis juxtaposes revered musician Calypso Rose, renowned mas man Peter Minshall, and resilient HIV/AIDS organization Friends For Life. Erotic Islands traverses black studies, queer studies, and anthropology toward an emergent black queer diaspora studies.
*Also eBook (UC only): Erotic Islands
Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men by Héctor Carrillo
Call Number: HQ76.2.M6 C37 2017
ISBN: 022651773X
Publication Date: 2018-01-09
With Pathways of Desire, Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men's migration experiences, from their upbringing in Mexican cities and towns, to their cross-border journeys, to their incorporation into urban gay communities in American cities, and their sexual and romantic relationships with American men. These men's diverse and fascinating stories demonstrate the intertwining of sexual, economic, and familial motivations for migration. Further, Carrillo shows that sexual globalization must be regarded as a bidirectional, albeit uneven, process of exchange between countries in the global north and the global south. With this approach, Carrillo challenges the view that gay men from countries like Mexico would logically want to migrate to a "more sexually enlightened" country like the United States--a partial and limited understanding, given the dynamic character of sexuality in countries such as Mexico, which are becoming more accepting of sexual diversity. Pathways of Desire also provides a helpful analytical framework for the simultaneous consideration of structural and cultural factors in social scientific studies of sexuality. Carrillo explains the patterns of cross-cultural interaction that sexual migration generates and--at the most practical level--shows how the intricacies of cross-cultural sexual and romantic relations may affect the sexual health and HIV risk of transnational immigrant populations.
Cuba's Gay Revolution: Normalizing Sexual Diversity Through a Health-Based Approach by Emily J. Kirk
Call Number: HQ73.3.C83 K57 2017
ISBN: 149855766X
Publication Date: 2017-08-15
*At Young Research Library.
Cuba's Gay Revolution explores the unique health-based approach that was employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity (LGBTQ) since 1959. It examines leaders in the process to normalize sexual diversity, such as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and the National Center of Sexual Education (CENESEX). This book is written for scholars interested in LGBTQ issues, Cuba, and Latin America.
Queer Argentina: Movement Towards the Closet in a Global Time by Matthew Edwards
Call Number: HQ73.3.A7 E39 2017
ISBN: 113758159X
Publication Date: 2016-12-18
Through insightful, high-paced commentary this book directs attention south, towards Argentina. Current events, political debates, and the cultural production of artists, authors and public figures, including César Aira, María Moreno, Naty Menstrual and Copi, among others, provide case studies where heterosexual social models are rejected and, in their place, queer frameworks become the preferred model for living differently. Queer Argentina traces the movements of today's marginalized communities as they pass through and choose to remain within the closet: a space that is emblematic of collective struggles in silence and community formation outside the (hetero)norm.
*Also eBook (UC only): Queer Argentina
Out in the Periphery: Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution by Omar G. Encarnación
Call Number: HQ76.8.L38 E53 2016
ISBN: 0199356653
Publication Date: 2016-02-01
Known around the world as a bastion of Catholicism and machismo, Latin America has emerged in recent years as the undisputed gay rights leader of the Global South. Even more surprising is that several Latin American nations have surpassed many developed nations, including the United States, in legislating equality for the LGBT community. So how did this dramatic and unexpected expansion of gay rights come about? And why are Latin American nations diverging in their embrace of gay rights, a point highlighted by the paradoxical experiences of Argentina and Brazil? Argentina, a country with a dark history of repression of homosexuality, legalized same-sex marriage in 2010, a first for a Latin American nation; and since then it has enacted laws to ensure transgender equality, to abolish "ex-gay reparative therapy," and to provide reproductive assistance to same-sex couples. By contrast, Brazil, a country famous for celebrating sexual diversity, proved incapable of legalizing same-sex marriage via the legislature, leaving the job to the courts; and Brazilian anti-gay discrimination laws are among the weakest in Latin America. In Out in the Periphery, Omar G. Encarnación breaks away from the conventional narrative of Latin America's embrace of gay rights as a by-product of the global spread of gay rights from the developed West. Instead, Encarnación aims to "decenter" gay rights politics. His intention is not to demonstrate how the "local" has trumped the "global" in Latin America but rather to suggest how domestic and international politics interacted to make Latin America one of the world's most receptive environments for gay rights.
Translating the Queer: Body Politics and Transnational Conversations by Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba
Call Number: HQ76.3.L29 D67 2016
ISBN: 1783602929
Publication Date: 2016-11-15
[*At Young Research Library] Translating the Queer examines how concepts of queer knowledge and its representations have been disseminated throughout Latin America, a dissemination that has been accompanied by processes of translation, adaptation, and resistance. Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba discusses the formation of pre-gay identities as well as today's LGBTQI political movement in addition to alternative forms of non-heterosexual practices that have emerged from within marginal populations. He analyzes how queer theory is employed as a means to understand varied cultural and political expressions, and he asks: How far can the queer really go as a conceptual tool? Offering an essential look at queer history, culture, and politics in Latin America, Translating the Queer will be an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the evolution of queer theory and identity in recent decades.
The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico by Jordi Díez
Call Number: HQ1034.L29 D54 2015
ISBN: 1107099145
Publication Date: 2015-05-31
Addressing one of the defining social issues of our time, The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America explores how and why Latin America, a culturally Catholic and historically conservative region, has become a leader among nations of the Global South, and even the Global North, in the passage of gay marriage legislation. In the first comparative study of its kind, Jordi Díez explains cross-national variation in the enactment of gay marriage in three countries: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Based on extensive interviews in the three countries, Díez argues that three main key factors explain variation in policy outcomes across these cases: the strength of social movement networks forged by activists in favor of gay marriage; the access to policy making afforded by particular national political institutions; and the resonance of the frames used to demand the expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples.
Homosexuality and Invisibility in Revolutionary Cuba: Reinaldo Arenas and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea by María Encarnación López
Call Number: HQ76.8.C9 M37 2015
ISBN: 1855662884
Publication Date: 2015-06-18
This work offers an alternative insight into the longstanding and conflicting relationship between politics and the (gay) intelligentsia in Cuba by looking closely at political texts, film, documentaries and literature from prior to Fidel Castro's regime until the present day. The book offers new readings of the work, letters and interviews of two influential voices, Reinaldo Arenas and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Arenas's material reveals a new account of the nature of 'the voice of the invisibles' and the key elements of the construction of a Cuban national rhetoric that looks at (governmental) power and (gay) resistance as being in perpetual tension, which often increases the feeling of moral panic and even social exclusion and displacement among citizens. The book also offers a new interpretation of Gutiérrez Alea's renowned film Fresa y Chocolate (1994), resulting from the use of unpublished and revealing testimonies of the Cuban dance critic and writer Roger Salas and the secret messages inferred in his short story 'Helados de pasión: El cordero, la lluvia y el hombre desnudo' (1998).
Not Safe at Home: Violence and Discrimination against LGBT People in Jamaica by Rhon Reynolds; Human Rights Watch
Call Number: HQ76.45.J25 R49 2014
ISBN: 1623131995
Publication Date: October, 2014
*Also available online: Not Safe at Home
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout
Call Number: HQ75.6.C9 S76 2014
ISBN: 0822356856
Publication Date: 2014-04-25
Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The booming sex trade led to unprecedented encounters between Cuban gays and lesbians, and straight male sex workers and foreign tourists. As many gay Cuban men in their thirties and forties abandoned relationships with other gay men in favor of intimacies with straight male sex workers, these bonds complicated ideas about "true love" for queer Cubans at large. From openly homophobic hustlers having sex with urban gays for room and board, to lesbians disparaging sex workers but initiating relationships with foreign men for money, to gay tourists espousing communist rhetoric while handing out Calvin Klein bikini briefs, the shifting economic terrain raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love in late-socialist Cuba.
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela by Marcia Ochoa
Call Number: HQ77.95.V4 O24 2014
ISBN: 0822356260
Publication Date: 2014-05-19
*At Young Research Library.
Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary, and on the bodies of both transformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle, gender and sexuality, race and class, and self-fashioning and identity in Venezuela. Beauty pageants play an outsized role in Venezuela. The country has won more international beauty contests than any other. The femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies, clothing and makeup styles, and postures and gestures of this national femininity, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity.
*Also eBook (UC only): Queen for a Day
Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua by Cymene Howe
Call Number: HQ76.8.N5 H69 2013
ISBN: 0822354500
Publication Date: 2013-09-09
Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was repealed in 2007. In this vivid ethnography, Cymene Howe analyzes how local activists balanced global discourses regarding human rights and identity politics with the contingencies of daily life in Nicaragua. Though they were initially spurred by the antisodomy measure, activists sought to change not only the law but also culture. Howe emphasizes the different levels of intervention where activism occurs, from mass-media outlets and public protests to meetings of clandestine consciousness-raising groups. She follows the travails of queer characters in a hugely successful telenovela, traces the ideological tensions within the struggle for sexual rights, and conveys the voices of those engaged in "becoming" lesbianas and homosexuales in contemporary Nicaragua.
Gender and Sexuality in Latin America - Cases and Decisions by Cristina Motta (Editor); Macarena Saez (Editor)
Call Number: KG136.W64 G46 2013
ISBN: 9400761988
Publication Date: 2013-06-05
Translated and updated from the seminal Spanish text on legal decisions affecting gender and sexuality in Latin America, this English edition is the only law text to focus specifically on the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and the transgender population in addition to women's rights more broadly. The volume provides close analysis of some of the most important decisions made by Latin American national courts, as well as those made by international legal bodies, that affect the rights and interests of these groups. Specially selected for their depth of argument and value as exemplars, the studies of good legal practice chart the path of the region's normative values of justice as they have evolved away from a partial, and patriarchal, exercise of the law. They show how cases with vastly differing contexts such as, property rights and domestic violence have resulted in a mixed body of Latin American law. Some decisions are protective of women's and minority rights. Some assess the wider social impacts of case law in which recognition of the discrete legal identities within households challenges established precepts, including religious ones. Other cases have been chosen as cautionary examples of bad decision-making and for the poverty of their legal debate. Updated to include the latest relevant jurisprudence from across the continent, this book is an informed, cohesive and comprehensive guide to understanding women's and gender-based rights in Latin America.
*Also available as an eBook: Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America: Promise and Resistance by Jason Pierceson (Editor); Adriana Piatti-Crocker (Editor); Shawn Schulenberg (Editor)
Call Number: KG147 .S26 2013
ISBN: 0739167030
Publication Date: 2012-12-21
Flaming Souls: homosexuality, homophobia, and social change in Barbados by David A. B. Murray
Call Number: HQ76.3.B3 M87 2012
ISBN: 1442613009
Publication Date: 2012
Sexual revolutions in Cuba : passion, politics, and memory by Carrie Hamilton ; foreword by Elizabeth Dore
Call Number: HQ18.C83 H36 2012
ISBN: 0807835196
Publication Date: 2012
The politics of sexuality in Latin America : a reader on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights by edited by Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny
Call Number: HQ23 .P663 2010
ISBN: 0822960621
Queering the public sphere in Mexico and Brazil : sexual rights movements in emerging democracies by Rafael de la Dehesa
Call Number: HQ76.8.B6 D35 2010
ISBN: 0822347245
Same-sex marriage in the Americas : policy innovation for same-sex relationships by edited by Jason Pierceson, Adriana Piatti-Crocker, and Shawn Schulenberg
Call Number: HQ1034.A45 S26 2010
ISBN: 0739128655
"Not worth a penny" : human rights abuses against transgender people in Honduras by Human Rights Watch
Call Number: HQ77.95.H8 H86 2009
ISBN: 1564324869
Also available online: "Not Worth a Penny"
Hated to death : homophobia, violence, and Jamaica’s HIV/AIDS epidemic by Human Rights Watch
Call Number: HQ76.45.J25 S35 2004
Also available online: "Hated to Death"
Butterflies will burn : prosecuting sodomites in early modern Spain and Mexico by Federico Garza Carvajal
Call Number: HQ1090.7.S7 G37 2003
ISBN: 0292702213
Infamous desire : male homosexuality in colonial Latin America by edited by Pete Sigal
Call Number: HQ76.2.L29 I54 2003
ISBN: 0226757048
*At Young Research Library.
The night is young : sexuality in Mexico in the time of AIDS by Héctor Carrillo
Call Number: HQ18.M4 C37 2002
ISBN: 0226093034
Beyond Carnival : homosexuality in twentieth-century Brazil by by James Naylor Green
Call Number: HQ76.2.B6 G74 2001
ISBN: 0226306380
Beneath the equator : cultures of desire, male homosexuality, and emerging gay communities in Brazil by Richard Parker
Call Number: HQ76.2.B6 P37 1999
ISBN: 0415916208
*At SRLF.
Mema’s house, Mexico City : on transvestites, queens, and machos by Annick Prieur
Call Number: HQ77 .P6813 1998
ISBN: 0226682579
*At Young Research Library.
Travesti : sex, gender, and culture among Brazilian transgendered prostitutes by Don Kulick
Call Number: HQ77.2.B7 K85 1998
ISBN: 0226461009
*At College Library and SRLF.
De los otros : intimacy and homosexuality among Mexican men by Joseph Carrier
Call Number: HQ76.2.M62 G813 1995
ISBN: 0231096925
Latin American male homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray
Call Number: HQ76.2.L29 M87 1995
ISBN: 0826316581
*At Young Research Library & College Library.