In Nicaragua: homosexuality without a gay world.
This paper addresses the social construction of homosexual relations among men in Nicaragua in the late 1980s. The political economy of a nation, subjected to a devastating war by the United States, created conditions where sexual relations among men have not become organized into a gay world which would be familiar to North Americans and Europeans. Rather, homosexually-inclined men remain fully integrated in family and neighborhood life where they are often "known about" but not "recognized," a condition which dissolves separateness but also suppresses the development of a gay culture beyond the bounds of heterosexist expectations.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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D003906:Developing Countries; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009527:Nicaragua; D011287:Prejudice; D012931:Social Environment; D012933:Social Identification; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors