Home and Homing as Resistance: Survival of LGBTQ Latinx Migrants

Using oral histories, this article reappropriates the concept of home to conceptualize it as a space of survival in the lives of LGBTQ Latinx migrants in Los Angeles, California, and migrant returnees in Mexico City, Mexico. It presents the process of homebuilding as a personal and inward protest against intersecting forms of systemic violence.