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

Acknowledgments

AC K NOWLEDGMENTS W  grateful to Amherst College and the University of Buenos Aires for their financial support. Ronald (Alex) Clark provided invaluable help in the early stages of the project. Seguin Strohmeier, Lucy Zhou, Sarah Harper, and Brittany Berckes provided long hours of research, as well as administrative and copyediting assistance. We want to thank the various translators, whose contributions, we are embarrassed to admit, were underpaid. Last but not least, we are deeply grateful to Malú Moreno, who was involved in every stage of this process. She kept us focused, organized, and more important, sane. She is a friend and colleague like few others. We are also grateful to all the publishing houses that granted permission to include reprints. Many of the authors provided excerpts of their texts, often within a tight schedule. In some cases, the authors shaped their excerpts, which was crucial for preserving the integrity of those texts. In other cases, we the editors did the excerpting. In addition to excerpting, some of the reprinted texts have undergone minor editorial alterations to create stylistic consistency within this volume. xv THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA ...