Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Comparative Politics of Sexuality in Latin America / Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny
Part 1: Nation-Building and Heteronormativity
Male Same-Sex Sexuality and the Argentine State, 1880–1930 / Pablo Ben, 2009
Cuban CondemNation of Queer Bodies / Emilio Bejel, 2000
Mexico / Stephen O. Murray, 2004
Part 2: Sexuality-Based Political Struggles
More Love and More Desire: The Building of a Brazilian Movement / James N. Green, 1998
“Con Discriminación y Represión No Hay Democracia” : The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Argentina / Stephen Brown, 2002
Sociability, Secrets, and Identities: Key Issues in Sexual Politics in Latin America / Mario Pecheny
Sexual Politics and Sexual Rights in Brazil: A Case Study / Adrianna R. B. Vianna and Sergio Carrara, 2007
Puerto Rico and the Caribbean / Linda Rapp, 2004
Identity, Revolution, and Democracy: Lesbian Movements in Central America / Millie Thayer, 1997
Part 3: LGBT Movements’ Relations with Political Parties and Legislators
Global Communities and Hybrid Cultures: Early Gay and Lesbian Electoral Activism in Brazil and Mexico / Rafael de la Dehesa, 2007
Social Movements and Political Parties: Gays, Lesbians, and Travestis and the Struggle for Inclusion in Brazil / Juan P. Marsiaj, 2006
The Civil Union Law in Buenos Aires: Notes on the Arguments by the Opposition / Renata Hiller (trans. Christina Martinez)
Gay Rights in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, 1999–2009 / José Ramón Merentes
LGBT Rights in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution: Victories and Setbacks / Selena Xie and Javier Corrales
Part 4: The State and Public Policies
Friendly Government, Cruel Society: AIDS and the Politics of Homosexual Strategic Mobilization in Brazil / Eduardo J. Gomez
Sexual Rights of Gays, Lesbians, and Transgender Persons in Latin America: A Judge's View / Roger Raupp Rios
Chile: Seizing Empowerment / Time Frasca, 2005
Speech of the President of the Brazilian Republic at the Opening of the First National Conference of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transsexuals / Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 2008 (trans. Nicole Panico)
Interview with Mariela Castro on the Future of Sex and Socialism in Cuba / Anastasia Haydulina, 2008
Out in Public: Gay and Lesbian Activism in Nicaragua / Florence E. Babb, 2004
Part 5: Intrasociety Relations
The Rationale of Collective Action within Sexual-Rights Movements: An Abstract Analysis of Very Concrete Experiences / Mario Pecheny, 2004 (trans. Mariana Alcaniz)
Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in the Americas / Andrew Reding, 2003
Desire, TV, Panic, and Violence Surrounding the Transgendered in Argentina: The Metamorphoses of 1998 / Alejandro Modarelli, 2004 (trans. Mariana Alcaniz)
Lesbians in (Cyber)Space: The Politics of the Internet in Latin American On- and Off-line Communities / Elisabeth Jay Friedman, 2007
Gay Space in Havana / Scott Larson, 2004
Divergence between LGBTI Legal, Political, and Social Progress in the Caribbean and Latin America / Jim Wilets
The Fight and Flight of Reinaldo Arenas / Rafael Ocasio, 2008
From Invisible Subjects to Citizens: A Report on Human Rights and Lesbians in Paraguay, 2006 / Rosa M. Posa Guinea, Carolina Robledo Desh, and Camila Zabala Peroni, on behalf of Aireana, Group for Lesbian Rights, 2006 (trans. Sarah Harper)
The LGBT Organizational Density of World Cities / Javier Corrales
Part 6: Diversities Within
Political Practices and Alliance Strategies of the Chilean GLBTT Movement / Hector Nunez Gonzalez, 2005 (trans. Sarah Harper)
“The Gay Pride March They’re Not Talking About Me” : The Politicalization of Differences in the Argentine GLTTTB Movement / Alumine Moreno (trans. Sarah Harper)
The Feminism-Lesbianism Relationship in Latin America: A Necessary Link / Yuderkys Espinosa Minoso, 2007 (trans. Joan Flores)
Transvestism and Public Space: Transvestism and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite, and Transsexual Movement / Josefina Fernandez, 2004 (trans. Zoe Fenson)
“Every Jack to His Trade?” : Power Arrangements, Policies of Identity, and Market Segmentations within the Homosexual Movement / Isadora Lins Franca, 2006 (trans. Nicole Panico)
Appendix: Timeline of LGBT Political Landmarks in the Americas / Javier Corrales
Credits for Original Publications
Index