About the Contributors

Lionel Cantú is assistant professor of sociology (with affiliations in Latin American and Latino studies and women's studies) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The essay in this issue is drawn from his dissertation, "Border Crossings: Mexican Men and the Sexuality of Migration," which examines how sexuality influences the migration of Mexican men in the United States and Mexico. He is editing, with Eithne Luibheid, the anthology Queer Moves: Sexuality, International Migration, and the Contested Boundaries of U.S. Citizenship.

John Champagne is associate professor of English at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. He is author of three books, including The Ethics of Marginality: A New Approach to Gay Studies (1995). His essays have appeared in the Journal of Homosexuality, College English, and boundary 2, among other journals.

Gabriel Giorgi was born in Argentina and is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. His dissertation concerns the male body, queerness, and national belonging in Argentine literature.

Venetia Kantsa holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her work focuses on shifting narrations of desire, family, sexuality, and the self that are uttered by same-sex desiring women in contemporary Greece.

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is assistant professor of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies and of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University. An expanded version of his dissertation, "Culture, Representation, and the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora," is forthcoming. His research focuses on queer Latin/o American performance and the formation of a public social sphere.

Michael Luongo holds a master's degree in city and regional planning from Rutgers University, where his research concentrated chiefly on gay urban space and gay tourism. He has worked in the United Kingdom on HIV prevention programs for gay men who travel. With Briavel Holcomb, he published one of the earliest academic articles on gay travel, in the Annals of Tourism Research in 1996, and he is editor, with Stephen Clift and Carry Callister, of Gay Tourism: Culture, Identity, and Risk (forthcoming).

Kevin Markwell is lecturer in leisure studies and member of the Cultural Industries and Practices Research Centre at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. With L. Lomine, he is writing a book titled Somewhere over the Rainbow? Understanding Gay and Lesbian Tourism (forthcoming).

Jasbir Kaur Puar is assistant professor of women's and gender studies and of geography at Rutgers University. Her most recent publications are "Transnational Sexualities: South Asian Trans/Nationalisms and Queer Diasporas," in David Eng and Alice Hom's Q & A: Queer in Asian America (1998); "Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and Its White Closets," in Matt Wray et al., eds., Making and Unmaking of Whiteness (2001); and "Global Circuits: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad," Signs 26 (2001): 1039-66. As a 1999-2000 Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York, she began researching the gay and lesbian tourism industry; an article on lesbian tourism is forthcoming in Antipode.

Dereka Rushbrook is a Ph.D. candidate in geography and regional development at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation concerns globalization and artisanal production in Mexico. Her other research focuses on the links between globalization, consumption, and sexual geographies.

Sarah L. Stifler is a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the University of Southern California. She works on contemporary art, with a focus on issues of gender and sexuality.