Gay print culture a transnational history of North America Juan Carlos Mezo González

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mezo González, Juan Carlos, 1991- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay liberation movement--North America--Periodicals.

Gay liberation movement.

Gay rights--North America--Periodicals.

Gay rights.

Homosexuality and literature--North America.

Homosexuality and literature.

Homosexuality and the arts--North America.

Homosexuality and the arts.

Politics and culture--North America--History.

Politics and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) illustrations

Contained In:

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2026

Place of Publication:

Durham Duke University Press 2026

Summary:

"Gay Print Culture 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. Weaving transnational histories across five chapters, Juan Carlos Mezo González examines the production, content, circulation, and reception of leading gay periodicals published in these countries. The book demonstrates how these periodicals aimed to visualize the political goals of gay liberation, particularly those concerning the liberation and celebration of homoerotic desires. Visualizing these goals allowed activists, editors, publishers, and artists to foster the formation of gay communities and identities, while also advancing gay liberation movements at the local, national, and international levels. Gay Print Culture examines these histories by focusing on three thematic threads: 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 as it arises in gay print culture"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Periodicals, coming out, and the visualization of gay liberation

Sexual imagery, transnational communities, and the politics of visualization in the body politic

Liberationist politics, colonial optics, and the desire for Latin America in gay sunshine

Gay masculinity and the commodification of the Mexican body in macho tips

The gay editorial market and the transnational production of racialized desires

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index

Other Format:

Print version Mezo González, Juan Carlos, 1991- Gay print culture

ISBN:

9781478061793

1478061790

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