Howe, Zaraysky & Lorentzen, ‘Transgender sex workers and sexual transmigration between Guadalajara and San Francisco’, 2008
- Category: Literature
- Source: Academic
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Migration, Gender, Human Rights, LGBT+
- Place: Americas
- Year: 2008
- URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0094582X07310956
Cymene Howe, Susanna Zaraysky and Lois Lorentzen, ‘Transgender sex workers and sexual transmigration between Guadalajara and San Francisco’, Latin American Perspectives, 35 (1), pp 31-50, 2008
Abstract
Detailed study of microcommunities of transgender sex workers in Guadalajara and San Francisco reveals a close relationship between migratory motives, economic aspirations, and sexuality. The resonance of both cities as “gay meccas” in their respective nation-states provides a background for the operation of these imagined sites of tolerance in transgender sex workers’ lives. Migration is gendered and sexualized, and, despite infra-structural support in San Francisco, these workers find more holistic support “at home”.