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Latin American Male Homosexualities
Latin American Male Homosexualities
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Una Historia Sociocultural de La Homosexualidad
The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of the Trial of Oscar Wilde Vs. John Douglas Marquess of Queensberry, 1895
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Out in the Garden: Growing a Beautiful Life
Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
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Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth, and Their Allies
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Diaries: 1939-1960 Vol 1
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Best overview of male homosexuality in Latin America
a must have historical text for Latino [homsexuals]

Latin American Male Homosexualities

Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America (Sexual Cultures Series)
Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History, and Literature

ASIN: 0826316581

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This anthropological volume examines Latin American male homosexualities from theoretical, critical, ethnographic, ethnohistorical, and lexicological perspectives. The authors discuss male homosexualities in Spanish-speaking societies, in Brazil, and in indigenous societies in relation to family, society, culture, politics, economy, and ethnicity. They discuss homosexuality in pre-Columbian indigenous societies and in colonial and modern Latin America. Contributors explore wide-ranging issues such as homosexual categorization, machismo and homosexuality, the activo-pasivo cultural dichotomy, the gay image in Chicano fiction, male homosexuality and Afro-Brazilian possession cults, the gay movement and human rights, and others.

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Best overview of male homosexuality in Latin America.......2002-07-08

There are some excellent books on male homosexuality in particular sites (Hector Carrillo and Joseph Carrier on Guadalajara, Mexico; Richard Parker on (Rio) Brazil; Manuel Fernandez on (San Pedro, Honduras)) but this collection ranges much more widely, including material on indigenous cultures as well as the dominant machista one that varies only slightly from Texas to Tierra del Fuego, and incipient "modern gay" homosexuality.

About half the chapters are by Stephen Murray, who has considered reports from many societies and done fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru. He is very critical of the romantic view of "tolerance" ("anything goes"/ "there's no sin south of the border") but includes chapters by the two main purveyors of that view (Paul Kutsche and Richard Parker). The book contains a multiplicity of scholarly views and data ranging from the usual literary texts to ethnography and survey research on sexual behavior of males who have sex with males in Latin America.

a must have historical text for Latino [homsexuals].......2001-06-29

This is a collection of essays which compare [homosexuals] in the US with those in Latin America. It looks at male homosexuality from a historical, pre-colombian, and tribal perspective as well. Murray is an erudite anthropologist and therefore does not fall into the loopholes in scholarship that many white men who "study" homosexuality in Latin America have. The author is a bit of an essentialist and that may rub constructionists the wrong way. Of his books on international male homosexuality, this is the best one buy far. I think every [homosexual] Latino who wants to know their own [homosexual] Latino history should own a copy.

Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men

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Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men
Chris Girman
Manufacturer: Harrington Park Press
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Public Sex in a Latin Society
Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
Latin American Male Homosexualities
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships
Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

ASIN: 1560235039

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Quality research—uniquely enhanced by the author's personal experience!

This book explores the concepts—and illuminates the realities—of macho and machismo from the unique perspective of a gay sociologist who is also a sexual tourist. Unlike most of the scholars who have written about same-sex Latino male attraction, author/ethnographer Chris Girman has experienced it firsthand. In his travels in South, Central, and North America, Chris has had intimate encounters with dozens of Latino men. He shares both his research and his personal experience in Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men.

While most of the literature on Latin American male same-sex desire ignores the significance of the male body in its investigation, this book shows why it is essential to focus on the macho male body and re-evaluates so-called "machismo" to forge a more nuanced description of Latin American masculinity. Girman incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin American men into the book, infusing his writing with the unique perspective and vivid descriptions that can only be related by someone who has lived the research he writes about.

With this book, you'll become familiar with various kinds of Latin-American homosexual behavior. Here's a glimpse at what you'll find inside:

Machismo, Practice Theorists, and Macho Performance" summarizes previous research on Latin American male [homo]sexuality and defines the author's concept of machismo and Latin American masculinity.

Head, Hands, Balls, and Ass" shows why focusing on the body as living matter, rather than metaphor (as is done in so many other books on sexuality), is the ideal point of entry into the study of Latin American male [homo]sexuality and masculinity. This chapter focuses on specific regions of the macho body—head, hands, balls, and ass—to explain how machismo actually promotes, rather than denies, sexual encounters between men. It also shows the importance of the Latin American family as a variable that structures the manner and frequency in which [homo]sexual encounters occur.

The Dominican Tiguere and Hegemonic Masculinities" takes a specific look at a very peculiar form of hegemonic masculinity—relying on cunning more than strength to "come out on top"—that is indigenous to the Dominican Republic. This chapter also tells the stories of five of the author's sexual encounters in that nation and discusses the tiguere style of masculine performance.

Desire in a Costa Rican Prison" analyzes the ways in which desire, power, and pleasure are constituted in the Latin American prison environment.

Historical Representations of Same-Sex Desire" examines two short stories—El Matadero (Esteban Echeverria) and Comienza el Desfile (Reinaldo Arenas), which highlight male eroticism as important concepts within discourses on national identity. Both stories conceptualize same-sex desire within specific historical moments and demonstrate how male [homo]sexuality emerges and represents itself not in contrast to the dominant discourse, but within that discourse itself.

Familiar, Familial Voices: Latino Men Speak Out" documents the voices of "gay-identified" Latino men living in Central Texas—men who have come to love other Latin, Black, and Anglo men in the context of very full lives. These men reveal their conceptions of identity, race, performance, resistance, family, pleasure, desire, masculinity, silence, and place.

Performing Matter[s]-Masculinity, the Male Body, and the Evocation of the [non]real" defies the notion that written representations can capture the lived realities of an ethnographic subject. This chapter examines the impact that "performance ethnography" can have on the ability of ethnographers to blend the multiple discursive styles evident in a socially engaged individual articulating multiple identities and voices.

Mucho Macho: Seduction, Desire, and the Homoerotic Lives of Latin Men is a unique resource that no educator, student, or researcher interested in Latino male sexuality should be without. Make this one-of-a-kind volume a part of your collection today!

Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)

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Best intro to emergence & eflorescence of gay Brazil
Simply the best

Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
James N. Green
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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ASIN: 0226306380

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For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (or boy) from Ipanema moving sensually over the white sands of Rio's beaches. Among these tropical fantasies is that of the uninhibited and licentious Brazilian homosexual, who expresses uncontrolled sexuality during wild Carnival festivities and is welcomed by a society that accepts fluid sexual identity. However, in Beyond Carnival, the first sweeping cultural history of male homosexuality in Brazil, James Green shatters these exotic myths and replaces them with a complex picture of the social obstacles that confront Brazilian homosexuals.

Ranging from the late nineteenth century to the rise of a politicized gay and lesbian rights movement in the 1970s, Green's study focuses on male homosexual subcultures in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. He uncovers the stories of men coping with arrests and street violence, dealing with family restrictions, and resisting both a hostile medical profession and moralizing influences of the Church. Green also describes how these men have created vibrant subcultures with alternative support networks for maintaining romantic and sexual relationships and for surviving in an intolerant social environment. He then goes on to trace how urban parks, plazas, cinemas, and beaches are appropriated for same-sex erotic encounters, bringing us into the world of street cruising, male hustlers, and cross-dressing prostitutes.

Through his creative use of police and medical records, newspapers, literature, newsletters, and extensive interviews, Green has woven a fascinating history, the first of its kind for Latin America, that will set the standard for future works.

"Green brushes aside outworn cultural assumptions about Brazil's queer life to display its full glory, as well as the troubles which homophobia has sent its way. . . . This latest gem in Chicago's 'World of Desire' series offers a shimmering view of queer Brazilian life throughout the 20th century."--Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the 2000 Lambda Literary Awards' Emerging Scholar Award of the Monette/Horwitz Trust

Winner of the 1999 Hubert Herring Award, Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies

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Best intro to emergence & eflorescence of gay Brazil.......2000-05-30

Covering developments between 1890 and 1980, Green's book is the best place to begin to understand the appropriation of public space by gay male Brazilians. Besides seeming to have read everything written by or about male homosexuality in Brazil (his book's apparatus occupies more than a hundred pages), including archived forensic and psychiatric case records, Green draws on seventy life history interviews and a cache of illustrations from across the twentieth century.

Green shows that the gap between representation of rigid (masculine-active) bofe and (feminine-passive and frequently transvestite) bicha roles and how Brazilian males lived their sexualities increased during 1960s, and subsequently has been challenged in public discourse, but that behavior and purportedly universal norms were already noncongruent during the 1930s. Besides cataloging a history of growing bicha pride and steady bofe bashful ambivalence, Green also shows that bicha prominence in carnival is a tradition that is relatively recent, emerging during the 1950s, and suppressed for a few years at the beginning of the 1970s.

Green sensibly stresses the emergence during the 1950s and 60s of first bicha and then gay publications. The American homophile movement then also involved only a few determined individuals and fugitive publications. Rio's famed beaches have been important as places where men of varying economic status who are sexually interested in men meet - and socialize, and develop group consciousness, as well as engineering sexual liaisons. Brazilian gay clubs, bars, and restaurants cluster near beaches with gay enclaves.

Simply the best.......2000-05-14

It's indeed the most important register on brazilian homosexuality ever done. Green is a genius and this book must be read not only by homosexuals, but all kind of people that would like to understand a little about the gay subculture in Brazil. The author is brilliant and deserves our respect.

Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America

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Academic articles of differing quality...

Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America

Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0226757048

Book Description

What did it mean to be a man in colonial Latin America? More specifically, what did indigenous and Iberian groups think of men who had sexual relations with other men? Providing comprehensive analyses of how male homosexualities were represented in areas under Portuguese and Spanish control, Infamous Desire is the first book-length attempt to answer such questions. In a study that will be indispensable for anyone studying sexuality and gender in colonial Latin America, an esteemed group of contributors view sodomy through the lens of desire and power, relating male homosexual behavior to broader gender systems that defined masculinity and femininity.

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Academic articles of differing quality..........2005-02-15

On the coattails of "Colonialism and Homosexuality," a fascinating historical work by Robert Aldrich that gives a great view of gay history in colonial contexts (with the very notable exception of Latin America), I decided to pick up "Infamous Desire" to fill in the huge gap that that book had left for me, especially since my main area of interest is Latin America.

This book is obviously not as "well-written" because it is a compendium of articles by different authors, and therefore there is no overall thesis or perspective tying together the different presentations, which, individually are irregular. For the lay reader, some of the articles will be far too dry and academic in tone, despite the interesting information they contain. Others will be more "readable" and are equally interesting.

I think it is wonderful that someone had the idea to bring all of these articles together, since I have been unable to find any other work that discusses homosexuality in colonial latin american in general, and some of the detail is amazing. I was especially astonished to read the account about what may have been a budding gay "society" (though ever so small) in colonial Brazil, due to the fact that one swinging blacksmith left behind records of the huge number of gay lovers he had had! I didn't know that information like this was out there so the book was worthwhile.

Though most readers will probably head straight for articles on the countries they are most interested in, I would suggest reading it all for the only overview of colonial latin american homosexuality you will find on the market.

'Los Invisibles': A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940 (University of Wales - Iberian and Latin American Studies)

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'Los Invisibles': A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940 (University of Wales - Iberian and Latin American Studies)
Richard Cleminson , and Francisco Vasquez Garcia
Manufacturer: University of Wales Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Gender studies of Spain has thus far focused almost exclusively on women, leaving the social and political history of male homosexuality virtually untouched. 'Los Invisibles' fills this significant gap in the study of Spanish culture by analyzing the effects of medical and legal regulation on male homosexuals. Drawing from the discourse of medical history, Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vázquez García evaluate the impact of psychiatry, education, race, and the growth of gay subcultures on cultural representations of homosexuality in this pioneering study.

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