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Title: Latin American Male Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray, Clark L. Taylor, Manuel Arboleda G., Paul Kutsche, Karl J. Reinhardt, Peter Fry, Luis Mott, Frederick L. Whitam, Richard G. Parker, Wayne R. Dynes ISBN: 0-8263-1646-8 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Best overview of male homosexuality in Latin America
Comment: There are some excellent books on male homosexuality in particular sites (Hector Carrillo and Joseph Carrier on Guadalajara, Mexico; Richard Parker on (Rio) Brazil; Manuel Fernandez on (San Pedro, Honduras)) but this collection ranges much more widely, including material on indigenous cultures as well as the dominant machista one that varies only slightly from Texas to Tierra del Fuego, and incipient "modern gay" homosexuality.

About half the chapters are by Stephen Murray, who has considered reports from many societies and done fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru. He is very critical of the romantic view of "tolerance" ("anything goes"/ "there's no sin south of the border") but includes chapters by the two main purveyors of that view (Paul Kutsche and Richard Parker). The book contains a multiplicity of scholarly views and data ranging from the usual literary texts to ethnography and survey research on sexual behavior of males who have sex with males in Latin America.

Rating: 3
Summary: a must have historical text for Latino [homsexuals]
Comment: This is a collection of essays which compare [homosexuals] in the US with those in Latin America. It looks at male homosexuality from a historical, pre-colombian, and tribal perspective as well. Murray is an erudite anthropologist and therefore does not fall into the loopholes in scholarship that many white men who "study" homosexuality in Latin America have. The author is a bit of an essentialist and that may rub constructionists the wrong way. Of his books on international male homosexuality, this is the best one buy far. I think every [homosexual] Latino who wants to know their own [homosexual] Latino history should own a copy.

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