From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting

by Jacobo Schifter

Overview

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 risk of contracting HIV. This information could prove valuable to developing preventions and interventions for similar populations in countries all over the world.

In From Toads to Queens, transvestites in the sex trade and their customers share fascinating personal accounts from their daily lives, including details of their sexual encounters. Specifically you will gain insight into:

• sexual practices
• pay rates in the sex trade
• types of lovers and sexual partners
• locations of “work”
• conceptions of fashion and beauty among transvestites
• relations between transvestites, the police, and gay bashers
• clients who are heterosexual men
• drug consumption and unsafe sex
  
  From this book, you will gain a comprehensive analysis of Latin transvestites, how this population questions assumptions about sexual orientation and practice, and how they are affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Most importantly, From Toads to Queens documents boundry-crossing individuals’existence and subverts the simplistic division of people into traditional psychiatric categories, a crucial first step in devising ways to decrease the rates of HIV infection among specific populations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136783791
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jacobo Schifter, PhD

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
•  Introduction
•  Chapter 1. Expulsion from Eden
• Fernando
•  Early Awareness
• Chapter 2. From Toads into Queens
• Creating the Magic
• Choosing a Gender
• Expressing Separate Personalities
•  Feeling Like a Princess
• Chapter 3. The Neighbors
• The Libano
• The Paqueteo (ital) Revolution
• Chapter 4. The Battle for Clinica Biblica
• The District
• The Transvestites
• The Colorientos (ital)
•  Johns and Neighbors
• The Association
• The Governor
• The Public Ombudsman
• The Police
• The Constitutional Court
• Chapter 5. Priscilla and Prevention
• Lack of Support Among Transvestites
• Internal Divisions
• Lack of Support from Lovers
• Homophobia and AIDS
• Off to Miami?
• Chapter 6: The Business of Prostitution
• Discrimination at Work
• Transvestites’ Incomes
• Reasons for Transvestites’ Success
• Chapter 7. Drugs
• Crack Is King
• Basuko (ital)
• Sex and Drugs
• Chapter 8. Top-Man, Bottom-Man
• A Sexual Encounter
• Transvestites Are Not Passive Partners
• Love and Condoms Don’t Mix
• Unsafe Sex Remains a Problem
• Chapter 9: The Lovers of Libano
• Who Are They?
• Heterosexual and Homosexual Activity
• In the Transvestites’ World, the Penis Does Not Make the Man
• Self-Definition As Cachero (ital)
• Partners’ Knowledge of AIDS
• Chapter 10. The Sky Is the Limit
• The Basketball Player
• Inconsistent Condom Use
• Taxi! Taxi!
• Yet Another Combination
• Not Even Lesbians Escape
• Conclusion
• Is Transvestism Revolutionary?
• A Transvestite President
• Notes
• Index

What People are Saying About This

Alex Carballo-Diéguez

Alex Carballo-Diéguez, PhD, Research Scientist, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY
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.