Cisg public trans – Our era of ernment-sanctned gay tourism exists alongsi homophobic vlence and state crackdowns on the queer mons. Josh Mentanko explor the erotics of mass trans Mexi Cy and the flt l between ernment agendas and gay practic.
Contents:
- CANDID SHOTS OF MEXI CY’S REAL GAY UNRGROUND
- THE 10 BT GAY TOURIST SPOTS MEXI CY
- GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI
- LOS SECRETOS L úLTIMO VAGóN L METRO LA CIUDAD MéXI, LA "JA FELIZ" LA UNIDAD GAY
CANDID SHOTS OF MEXI CY’S REAL GAY UNRGROUND
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When Mexi Cy’s Sistema Transporte Colectivo (STC) closed certa metro rs Febary 2011 orr to prevent gay men om g them for sex, the public nversatn about the ban highlighted how the metro is more than jt a transportatn artery … The appropriatn of certa metro rs as meetg and hookup s for gay men exemplifi the clash between the STC and s ers, and the closure of the rs illumat the plex relatnship between the polil class that ntrols the cy and the LGBTQ muny. When the STC closed certa metro rs Febary 2011 orr to prevent gay men om g them for sex, the public nversatn about the ban highlighted how the metro is more than jt a transportatn artery; is a key part of Mexi Cy’s huge rmal enomy.
The appropriatn of certa metro rs as meetg and hookup s for gay men exemplifi the clash between the STC and s ers, and the closure of the rs illumat the plex relatnship between the polil class that ntrols the cy and the LGBTQ muny.
When Mexi Cy legalized same-sex marriage late 2009, Alejandro Rojas, the cy’s secretary for tourism, said that Mexi Cy “will be a very excg and darg place for a honeymoon, and [gay tourists] will take advantage of the fact that Mexi will wele them wh the due rpect and tolerance that their preferenc serve.
THE 10 BT GAY TOURIST SPOTS MEXI CY
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” By the summer of 2010, the cy had gurated an office to promote gay tourism, the first of s kd Lat Ameri. In the first eight months of 2009, 40 “homosexual persons” were reportedly murred the state of Michoacán, an area famo for secury thanks to vlence related to nartics traffic.
Compoundg the problem of homophobia the general public, police throughout Mexi often fail to label homophobic asslts as such, meang that statistics misreprent the sle of vlence faced by LGBTQ people. “[In the early 1990s], the last tra was gay the night. Acrdg to Gomez, most of the participants metrear are men – gay-intified or not – who e om the lower and middle class, and the way they participate is equently ndned by the geography and time of their daily mute.
GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI
A 2008 article the newspaper Milen pats a picture of metro secury and thory liberately ignorg the phenomenon, but after Francis Bojórquez was appoted director of the STC 2007, he promised to tackle street vendors, lack of secury, prostutn, and homosexualy the unrground.
A few days later, a metro spokperson said that gay men were takg advantage of the metro facili to m illegal acts. ” A secury guard at the same statn explaed that the prohibn rulted om “gays who are takg over the facili.
LOS SECRETOS L úLTIMO VAGóN L METRO LA CIUDAD MéXI, LA "JA FELIZ" LA UNIDAD GAY
On the one hand, they approve gay marriage, but on the other, they censure sex and more. The crackdown on “public” exprsns of gay sexualy Mexi Cy is not ntradictn wh the cy’s promotn of gay tourism and marriage. The nflict between neoliberal promotn of gay rights and crackdowns on gay sexual culture has grown the last five years.
The only remag gay dark room belongs to an upsle bar the Consa neighbourhood, southeast of the Zona Rosa. On March 6, 2014, Mexi Cy’s only officially gay bathhoe,, was closed by the PRD-ntrolled Delegatn of Miguel Hidalgo. Police homophobia and vlent state reprsn of the queer muny have long been a part of everyday life Canada.
Many don’t know this history of police homophobia, and many have never heard of the Toronto bathhoe rts.