The queer and (not so) narrow path

LGBTQ+ Mormon masculinities in Mexico City

Bibliographic Data

ID3635593
AuthorsAlí Siles (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Isaac Alí Siles Bárcenas (0000-0002-3878-8070, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, corresponding author)
Year2025
Pages1-20
Publication date2025-04-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2025.2493265
OpenAlexW4409766155
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited24

This article explores the lived experience of men who identify as LGBTQ+ and Mormon, in Mexico City, through a qualitative methodology based on the analysis of texts and documents of the institutional normativity and discourse of Mormonism; ethnographic observations with the collective of self-identified LGBT Mormons Afirmación; and individual in-depth interviews with members of the group. Building on the concept of double masculinities, I argue that contemporary LGBTQ+ Mormon masculinities are nuanced and fluid processes that display elements of long-standing religious and gendered belief and practice that can be seen as ‘traditional’, as well as ways of being in the world and interacting in it influenced by modern and post-modern discourses. Such processes are traced in different dimensions of the lived experience of these men who identify as GBTQ+ and Mormon, namely, their interactions in spaces configured either by Mormonism’s gender regime or other such regime(s), and the personal relationships that their living as LGBTQ+ Mormons produces, fosters and/or hinders. Throughout this exploration, I seek to illustrate the interaction between long-standing forms of being and doing religious masculinities, and others sometimes described as ‘post-traditional’, that is characteristic of lived religion in late modernity

Queer · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Race, History, and American Society

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