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Gays in Latin America

Read Javier Corrales’ article “Gays in Latin America: is the closet half empty?”, published in the magazine Foreign Policy, in February 2009. In the article, Corrales signalizes that “the region is becoming more gay-friendly”.  

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Tupperware Sexuality

The contexts of sexuality, consumption and class are related to the emergence of the female consumer as an object of interest for advertisers. Read Sanjay Srivastava’s paper “Tupperware Sexuality: Consumption, ‘Morality’ and the Search for a Controllable Modernity”.

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Dynamics of sexual politics

E-book SexPolitics: Reports from the Front Lines examines some dynamics of sexual politics in our time. The research was performed in eight countries – Brazil, Egypt, India, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam – and in relation to the United Nations and the World Bank.

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Unpunished Homophobia

Vagner de Almeida, director of the documentary “Living Day By Day” sees no difference in the hate crimes against gays and transgenders that occur in the many social regions of Rio de Janeiro. For him, the difference lies in the impunity with which these crimes are committed in the poor areas.

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Between good and evil

Pope Benedict XVI visit to Brazil on May 2007 had many implications for national political debates on sexuality and human rights. Thus Sexuality Policy Watch developed a series of analyses aimed at understanding what motivated this visit and what can be its potentially negative effects.