From Toads to Queens. Transvestism in a Latin American setting

From Toads to Queens. Transvestism in a Latin American setting

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A thorough investigation of a thus far neglected population. . . . Offers both broad and in-depth perspectives of the subject matter. . . . Dr. Schifter succeeds in presenting a vivid and compelling picture of the hard lives of transvestite homosexuals." -- Alex Carballo-Diguez, PhD, Research Scientist, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY The information in From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting (a 2000 Lammy Nominee) is crucial to understanding Latin American culture and its relation to HIV prevention. You’ll find research findings that offer insights into and analysis of the sexual culture and risk factors that place transvestites in the sex trade and their customers at ris...

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  • User image   Veeresh
    Total failure of totalitarianism world wide
    12 Feb 2020
    I liked the book. When Germans were invading Russia, the first time its dictator called Russians as brothers and sisters!! That is communism!!
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  • User image   Gary Williams
    16 Feb 2017
    Reminding people their greed comes at the expense of others nor does it magically appear courtesy of the "invisible hand" of the marketplace is hardly "manipulism" (seriously? Is that an Ayn Rand-inspired attempt to manipulate uneducated readers ?) Quite the contrary regardless. A half-century of Cold War propaganda disseminated by the very same military-industrial sector Eisenhower warned us would try to do precisely what they've done, is the deliberate policy of Pentagon and State Dept. hawks who knowingly lied regarding the objectives of socialism so that they can sell us on maintaining a standing army for the first time in US history. This is an effort to avoid stating the truth about how democratic governments are all that stand between a return to the tyranny of the right-wing monarchs, militarists, theocrats, and the class/caste divisions they need to exist for their survival. Elites use mercantalism to employ soldiers willing to murder leftists, scholars and intellectuals for money. It's the intelligent, educated people who promoted the leftward advances mankind has made over the last few centuries. You, otoh, lie by conflating Stalinism with egalitarianism.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jacobo Schifter

The author has a PhD in History from Columbia University, New York. He has written more than 20 books on US relations with Central America, the Jewish Community in the region, and on sexual minorities. Many of these books have been published in the States. Among these are Lila's House, A Study on Male Prostitution in Latin America, The Sexual Construction of Latino Youth, Macho Love. A Study of Sex in Prison and many others. The author currently works at UPEACE, teaching courses on Gender and Genocide.

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