Gay, Mexican and immigrant: intersecting identities among gay men in Los Angeles

Autor:	James Thing
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Intersectionality Sexual identity Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Transnationalism Gender studies Human sexuality Sociology Homosexuality Social class Identity formation media_common
Zdroj:	Social Identities. 16:809-831
ISSN:	1363-0296 1350-4630
DOI:	10.1080/13504630.2010.524787
Popis:	This paper draws on a multi-sited ethnographic research study of sexual identity formation among self-identified gay Mexican men in Los Angeles, Mexico City and Cuernavaca. Relying primarily on in-depth interviews with 24 gay immigrant men and extensive participant observation in Los Angeles, this research explores the intersection of sexuality, social class, ethnicity and immigration in the participants' daily lives and identity formation processes, the potential ways that transnational social networks shape their identities, and the ways that sexuality impacts the contours of their transnational networks. This article argues that the participants' identities as gay men are best understood as hybrid constructions that integrate elements of the gender-stratified activo/pasivo model of homosexuality and the object-choice gay model of homosexuality, and that the integration of these models into their identities is impacted by social class, geography, and immigration. Further, this paper argues that the subj...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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