Homosexuality In Latin America

Altman indicates “there is extensive literature suggesting that homosexual behaviour_ though not identity_ is widespread throughout Latin America, where what is curial in not gender but whether a man is “active” or “passive” (2001:24).” He adds, “[Their idea] that a homosexual identity (as distinct from homosexual practice) is related to rejection of dominant gender expectations, so that “a real man” can have sex with other men and not risk his heterosexual identity.”