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Aurelio Refugio Hidalgo de la Torre
Author_Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez
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Erskine Lane
gay cultural production
gay liberation
gay liberation periodicals
gay mobility
gay print culture
Gay Sunshine Press
Hidalgo de la Torre
history of sexuality
identity formation
Jim Moss
John Rowberry
Latin America
LGBTQ history
Macho Tips
Mexican culture
Mexico City
North America
political liberation
print culture
Queer Canada
queer cultural production
queer studies
San Francisco
Toronto
transnational history
transnational Mexican studies
visual culture
Winston Leyland
Product details
- ISBN 9781478033042
- Weight: 395g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
