Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

by Ana-Maurine Lara

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978816499
• ISBN13: 9781978816497
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"