A Case for Guarded Optimism: HIV/AIDS in Latin America
In 2004 I interviewed Eva, a transgender former prostitute in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was an attractive 28-year-old with long brunette ...
To Live and Let Live in South Los Angeles
Day to day, we all get along, says South Los Angeles community leader Arturo Ybarra, unintentionally alluding to Rodney Kings ...
In Search of the Chilean Paradise: Peruvians in Chile Forge a Community
This area is full of Peruvians. They are everywhere, these dirty Indians that stand on the street all day. They ...
The Growing Force of Latino Labor
Thirty years ago Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers union (UFW) brought new life to an otherwise quiescent labor ...
Challenging the Sodomy Law in Puerto Rico
Activist groups have initiated an aggressive cam- paign to repeal Article 103 of the Penal Code, which defines sodomy as ...
Apartheid Dominican Style
Two international human rights bodiesthe Inter-American Human Rights Commission and the Inter-American Human Rights Courtare examining charges that the Dominican ...
Gender, Sexuality and AIDS Prevention in Brazil
As in many parts of the world, AIDS first arrived in Brazil in the early 1980s through sensational- istic media ...
Anti-Immigrant Backlash on the “Home Front”
Whose side are you on? Thats the question that President George W. Bush asked in the aftermath of the 9/11 ...
