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Out in the Periphery explores how Latin America, a region known for its Catholic heritage and machismo culture, came to embrace gay rights. At the heart of this analysis is the activism of Latin America's gay rights organizations, a long-neglected social movement even by students of Latin American social movements.

'Out in the Periphery' explores how Latin America, a region known for its Catholic heritage and machismo culture, came to embrace gay rights. At the heart of this analysis is the activism of Latin America's gay rights organizations, a long-neglected social movement even by students of Latin American social movements.

Addressing one of the defining social issues of our time, The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America explores how and why Latin America, a culturally Catholic and historically conservative region, has become a leader among nations of the Global South, and even the Global North, in the passage of gay marriage legislation. In the first comparative study of its kind, Jordi Díez explains cross-national variation in the enactment of gay marriage in three countries: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Based on extensive interviews in the three countries, Díez argues that three main key factors explain variation in policy outcomes across these cases: the strength of social movement networks forged by activists in favor of gay marriage; the access to policy making afforded by particular national political institutions; and the resonance of the frames used to demand the expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples

This essay explains the gay-rights revolution in Latin America marked by the legalization of same-sex marriage in Argentina. Among the factors examined are the use of human-rights rhetoric to end anti-gay discrimination, the employment of the Internet to mainstream gay culture, the creation of a gay market to leverage clout for the gay community, and critical alliances with the political establishment. These explanations suggest that the Latin American gay-rights revolution is rooted in political strategizing rather than in social change, which explains the paradoxical trend of rising anti-gay violence in the midst of a gay-rights boom.

"Human Rights in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.

This essay examines the conditions that enable a 'gay rights backlash' through a comparison of the United States and Latin America. The United States, the cradle of the contemporary gay rights movement, is the paradigmatic example of a gay rights backlash. By contrast, Latin America, the most Catholic of regions, introduced gay rights at a faster pace than the United States without much in the way of a backlash. Collectively, this analysis demonstrates that a gay rights backlash hinges upon organisationally-rich 'backlashers' and an environment that is receptive to homophobic messages, a point underscored by the American experience. But the Latin American experience shows that the counter-framing to the backlash can minimise and even blunt the effects of the backlash.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Context -- 1 Some Lessons from Lawrence -- 2 Questions of Tolerance and Fairness -- 3 Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and the 2004 Presidential Vote -- 4 The Symbolic Centrality of Gay Marriage in the 2004 Presidential Election -- 5 The Anti-Gay Backlash? -- Part II: Decision -- 6 Some Thoughts on Institutional Life and "The Rest of the Closet" -- 7 Lawrence Past -- 8 The Rule of Lawrence -- 9 Lawrence, Privacy, and the Marital Bedroom: A Few Telltale Signs of Ironic Worry -- 10 The Continuing Triumph of Neo-Conservatism in American Constitutional Law -- 11 Sexuality, Marriage, and Relationships: The Radical Potential of Lawrence -- 12 Why Lawrence v. Texas Was Not Expected: A Critique of Pragmatic Legalist and Behavioral Explanations of Supreme Court Decision Making -- 13 To What Extent Should We Be Looking Abroad for Guidance in Interpreting the United States Constitution? -- Part III: The Future -- 14 Liberal with a Twist: Queering Marriage -- 15 The Polite Thing to Do -- Contributors -- Index.

The following is an extract from the 'Sean MacBride' Human Rights lecture delivered by Dr Luis Reque at the annual conference of Amnesty International at Strasbourg in September 1976 Dr Reque is the former Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an organ of the Organisation of American States. The main theme of Dr Reque's lecture was the situation of human rights in Latin America, with particular reference to countries 'which by their repudiation and flagrant and systematic violation of human rights have come to constitute a cancerous cell, destroying freedom within the continent'. He gave evidence to show how human rights are constantly being violated (and the various inter-American pledges on this subject ignored) in Chile, Cuba, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, with further examples from Haiti, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Dr Reque listed many cases of people who have died as a result of torture, with journalists, writers, artists, university lecturers and students figuring prominently on his list. But the problem is not simply one of the torture and in many instances death of political prisoners; often those arrested just disappear, the authorities denying the arrest despite denunciations by the families of the individuals concerned. One of the most disturbing aspects of Dr Reque's lecture is his account of the difficulties encountered by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (CIDH) in its attempts to promote and protect human rights in this area. We print here the part of Dr Reque's speech in which he refers to the obstacles placed in the path of the Commission by various governments in Latin America.