Out in Public: Gay and Lesbian Activism in Nicaragua

Out in Public: Gay and Lesbian Activism in Nicaragua

2000: I return to Nicaragua after being away for two years to find the capital city transformed with a new ...
Challenging the Sodomy Law in Puerto Rico

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 ...
Gender, Sexuality and AIDS Prevention in Brazil

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 ...
The Political is Personal

The Political is Personal

I never met Cesitar. At a meeting of religious leaders on the issue of If homosexuality, his father described him ...
Lesbians and the Gay Movement in Argentina

Lesbians and the Gay Movement in Argentina

In August, 1996, the Statutory Assembly charged with drafting a new statute for the city of Buenos Aires unanimously approved ...
Gay Rights: Out of the Closet and Into La Calle

Gay Rights: Out of the Closet and Into La Calle

Like many gay-pride marches throughout the world, last year's Gay/Lesbian/Trans- vestite/Transsexual Pride March in Buenos Aires was held on June ...
History in the Making The Homosexual Liberation Movement in Chile

History in the Making The Homosexual Liberation Movement in Chile

Midway through the cere- mony in which Patricio Aylwin was being offi- cially nominated as the presiden- tial candidate of ...
Sex Workers of Havana: The Lure of Things

Sex Workers of Havana: The Lure of Things

Roldy was 19 years old and homeless in Havana when I spoke to him in January 2003. He had just ...