The Madness of the Carnival
Representations of Latin America and the Caribbean in the U.S. Homophile Press
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7315381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shlomo Gleibman (0009-0006-5490-0284, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 870-888 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00918369.2017.1280989 |
| PMID | 28095143 |
| OpenAlex | W2578527840 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
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
Afro-Caribbean · Caribbean region · Colonialism · Latin Americans · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication
The Lavender Scare
Masked Voices
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
The shadows of Cold War over Latin America
The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930–70
Different Daughters
Queer Harvests
Framing of Political Culture in the English-Speaking Caribbean
Transnationalism and Homophile Political Culture in the Postwar Decades
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |