title: "The Madness of the Carnival": Representations of Latin America and the Caribbean in the U.S. Homophile Press.
abstract: This essay examines representations of Latin America and the Caribbean in U.S. homophile periodicals from 1953 to 1964. The 120 items in ONE, Mattachine Review, and The Ladder that referenced this region depicted Latin America and the Caribbean as different from the United States in a number of ways, in particular as more sexually repressive or more sexually liberal. These representations typically conformed to the general homophile movement tendency to challenge U.S. anti-homosexual campaigns during the "Lavender Scare," while arguing for acceptance based on rights claims. The representations also were based on Cold War, colonial, racist, nationalist, and imperialist frameworks. The essay argues that although the magazines generally affirmed the dominant homophile discourses of respectability and domesticity, they also challenged these discourses by presenting Latin American and Caribbean cultures as gender-nonconforming and sexually promiscuous.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Humanities , York University , Toronto , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Shlomo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gleibman
mesh_terms: D017691:Caribbean Region; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000266:history*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007843:Latin America; D008297:Male; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000266:history; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States
keywords: Bisexual; Caribbean; Cold War; Latin America; U.S. history; colonialism; gay; homophile; homosexuality; imperialism; internationalism; lesbian; magazines; media; nationalism; periodicals; queer; racism; trans; transnationalism