Challenging the Sodomy Law in Puerto Rico

Challenging the Sodomy Law in Puerto Rico

Activist groups have initiated an aggressive cam- paign to repeal Article 103 of the Penal Code, which defines sodomy as
Taking Note

Taking Note

Argentina: Has Menemismo Run Its Course? Politics in Argentina have been so thoroughly dominated by the neoliberal economic poli- cies
Gender, Sexuality and AIDS Prevention in Brazil

Gender, Sexuality and AIDS Prevention in Brazil

As in many parts of the world, AIDS first arrived in Brazil in the early 1980s through sensational- istic media
The Political is Personal

The Political is Personal

I never met Cesitar. At a meeting of religious leaders on the issue of If homosexuality, his father described him
Lesbians and the Gay Movement in Argentina

Lesbians and the Gay Movement in Argentina

In August, 1996, the Statutory Assembly charged with drafting a new statute for the city of Buenos Aires unanimously approved
Newsbriefs

Newsbriefs

Latin America Catches the "Asian Flu" NEW YORK, DECEMBER 10, 1997 Traders love to invent cute names for proliferating finan-
Reviews

Reviews

Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos by Annick Prieur, University of Chicago Press, 1998, 264 pp., S50.00
History in the Making The Homosexual Liberation Movement in Chile

History in the Making The Homosexual Liberation Movement in Chile

Midway through the cere- mony in which Patricio Aylwin was being offi- cially nominated as the presiden- tial candidate of
Scenes from a Mexican Battlefield

Scenes from a Mexican Battlefield

The Catholic Church and conservative politicians have launched aggressive local and national campaigns for "family values" and sexual abstinence, and
SEXUAL POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA

SEXUAL POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA

The outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s was a turning point for sexual minorities in Latin America,
Letters

Letters

U.S. AID Lisa Haugaard and the Latin American Working Group (LAWG), along with a host of other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
Anniversary Essay: The Long March of Feminism

Anniversary Essay: The Long March of Feminism

When I lived in Mexico during the 1950s, I used to visit Alaide Foppa de Sol6rzano, who many years later