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 ...
Newsbriefs

Newsbriefs

Latin America Catches the "Asian Flu" NEW YORK, DECEMBER 10, 1997 Traders love to invent cute names for proliferating finan- ...
Reviews

Reviews

Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos by Annick Prieur, University of Chicago Press, 1998, 264 pp., S50.00 ...
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 ...
SEXUAL POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA

SEXUAL POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA

The outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s was a turning point for sexual minorities in Latin America, ...
Closing the Door on Undocumented Workers

Closing the Door on Undocumented Workers

The story of the virtual enslavement of dozens of deaf Mexicans in two houses in Queens made national and international ...