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Consuming the Mexican Body: Gender, Race, and the Nation in Macho Tips, 1985-1989.

This article examines how the editorial and visual content of the Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-89) reproduced national discourses of race and gender to challenge the exclusion of gay men from the nation. Drawing on archival sources and oral history interviews, the essay demonstrates how the...

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Published in:Hispanic American Historical Review Vol. 100; no. 4; pp. 655 - 688
Main Author: Mezo González, Juan Carlos
Format: Article
Published: Duke University Press Nov2020
Subjects:
Gay people
Masculinity
Aesthetics
Heterosexuality
Stereotypes
Homosexuality
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