The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights

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CONTENTS Foreword by Lisa Baldez ix Acknowledgments xv 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, –  Pablo Ben,  Cuban CondemNation of Queer Bodies  Emilio Bejel,  Mexico  Stephen O. Murray,  PART 2: SEXUALITY-BASED POLITICAL STRUGGLES More Love and More Desire: The Building of a Brazilian Movement  James N. Green,  “Con Discriminación y Represión No Hay Democracia”: The Lesbian and Gay Movement in Argentina  Stephen Brown,  Sociability, Secrets, and Identities: Key Issues in Sexual Politics in Latin America  Mario Pecheny Sexual Politics and Sexual Rights in Brazil: A Case Study  Adriana R. B. Vianna and Sérgio Carrara,  Puerto Rico and the Caribbean  Linda Rapp,  Identity, Revolution, and Democracy: Lesbian Movements in Central America  Millie Thayer,  v 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,  Social Movements and Political Parties: Gays, Lesbians, and Travestis and the Struggle for Inclusion in Brazil  Juan P. Marsiaj,  The Civil Union Law in Buenos Aires: Notes on the Arguments by the Opposition  Renata Hiller (trans. Christina Martínez) Gay Rights in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, –  José Ramón Merentes  Rights in Ecuador’s  Constitution: Victories and Setbacks  Selena Xie and Javier Corrales PART 4: THE STATE AND PUBLIC POLICIES Friendly Government, Cruel Society:  and the Politics of Homosexual Strategic Mobilization in Brazil  Eduardo J. Gómez Sexual Rights of Gays, Lesbians, and Transgender Persons in Latin America: A Judge’s View  Roger Raupp Rios Chile: Seizing Empowerment  Tim Frasca,  Speech of the President of the Brazilian Republic at the Opening of the First National Conference of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transsexuals  Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,  (trans. Nicole Panico) Interview with Mariela Castro on the Future of Sex and Socialism in Cuba  Anastasia Haydulina,  Out in Public: Gay and Lesbian Activism in Nicaragua  Florence E. Babb,  PART 5: INTRASOCIETY RELATIONS The Rationale of Collective Action within Sexual-Rights Movements: An Abstract Analysis of Very Concrete Experiences  Mario Pecheny,  (trans. Mariana Alcañiz) Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in the Americas  Andrew Reding,  Desire, , Panic, and Violence Surrounding the Transgendered in Argentina: The Metamorphoses of   Alejandro Modarelli,  (trans. Mariana Alcañiz) vi / Contents Lesbians in (Cyber)Space: The Politics of the Internet in Latin American On- and Off-line Communities  Elisabeth Jay Friedman,  Gay Space in Havana  Scott Larson,  Divergence between  Legal, Political, and Social Progress in the Caribbean and Latin America  Jim Wilets The Fight and Flight of Reinaldo Arenas  Rafael Ocasio,  From Invisible Subjects to Citizens: A Report on Human Rights and Lesbians in Paraguay,   Rosa M. Posa Guinea, Carolina Robledo Desh, and Camila Zabala Peroni, on behalf of Aireana, Group forLesbian Rights,  (trans. Sarah Harper) The  Organizational Density of World Cities  Javier Corrales PART 6: DIVERSITIES WITHIN Political Practices and Alliance Strategies of the Chilean  Movement  Héctor Núñez González,  (trans. Sarah Harper) “The Gay Pride March? They’re Not Talking About Me”: The Politicization of Differences in the Argentine  Movement  Aluminé Moreno (trans. Sarah Harper) The Feminism-Lesbianism Relationship in Latin America: A Necessary Link  Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso,  (trans. Joan Flores) Transvestism and Public Space: Transvestism and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transvestite, and Transsexual Movement  Josefina Fernández,  (trans. Zoe Fenson) “Every Jack to His Trade?”: Power Arrangements, Policies of Identity, and Market Segmentation within the Homosexual Movement  Isadora Lins França,  (trans. Nicole Panico) Appendix: Timeline of  Political Landmarks in the Americas  Javier Corrales Credits for Original Publications  Index  Contents / vii ...