Gay Print Culture

A Transnational History of North America

Juan Carlos Mezo González (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2026
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3304-2 (ISBN)

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In Gay Print Culture, Juan Carlos Mezo GonzÁlez investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s. Mezo GonzÁlez examines the production, content, circulation, and reception of leading gay periodicals published in these countries, including community-based gay liberation publications and commercially oriented gay lifestyle and erotic magazines. He demonstrates how they aimed to visualize the political goals of gay liberation, particularly those concerning the liberation and celebration of homoerotic desires. Mezo GonzÁlez contends that visualizing these goals allowed activists, editors, publishers, and artists to foster the formation of gay communities and identities while advancing gay liberation movements at the local, national, and international levels. In so doing, he furthers understandings of the transnational nature of gay periodicals, the relationship between gay liberation politics and visual culture, and the existing tensions between the liberation of some and the oppression of others across the American continent.

Juan Carlos Mezo GonzÁlez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at Mount Royal University.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Periodicals, Coming Out, and the Visualization of Gay Liberation 23
2. Sexual Imagery, Transnational Communities, and the Politics of Visualization in The Body Politic 67
3. Liberationist Politics, Colonial Optics, and the Desire for Latin America in Gay Sunshine 103
4. Gay Masculinity and the Commodification of the Mexican Body in Macho Tips 141
5. The Gay Editorial Market and the Transnational Production of Racialized Desires 185
Conclusion 221
Notes 227
Bibliography 253
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.2.2026
Zusatzinfo	59 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-3304-5 / 1478033045
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-3304-2 / 9781478033042
Zustand	Neuware