Streetwalking : : LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic / / Ana-Maurine Lara.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Lara, Ana-Maurine,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Where the Locas Are --; Part I. Street Smarts --; Part II. Streetwalking --; Conclusion: On Silence Transformed --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978816534; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754186; 9783110753967; 9783110739138
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978816534
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ana-Maurine Lara.

Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic.