Streetwalking : LGBTQ lives and protest in the Dominican Republic /
Ana-Maurine Lara.
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (0 pages).
- Critical Caribbean studies Critical Caribbean Studies .
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Where the Locas Are -- Part I: Street Smarts -- 1. Christian Coloniality -- 2. Sexual Terror -- Part II: Streetwalking -- 3. Confrontación -- 4. Flipping the Script -- 5. Cuentos -- Conclusion: On Silence Transformed -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
"Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic"--
9781978816534 9781978816510
Sexual minorities--Social conditions.--Dominican Republic Gay rights--Dominican Republic.