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 ...
Scenes from a Mexican Battlefield

Scenes from a Mexican Battlefield

The Catholic Church and conservative politicians have launched aggressive local and national campaigns for "family values" and sexual abstinence, and ...
Criminalizing Abortion: A Crime Against Women

Criminalizing Abortion: A Crime Against Women

Women have abortions, whether it is legal or not. The question, then, is not whether we agree or disagree with ...
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 ...
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 ...