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This, paper draws from my dissertation research which is a mutli-sited ethnographic study of sexual identity formation among queer men in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and queer Mexican immigrant men living in Los Angeles. Based on interviews and hundreds of hours of participation, this paper explores the migratory and settlement processes of the immigrant participants to illuminate the ways in which sexuality, gender, migration and ethnicity intersect in their identity formation processes. I show that the "sexual migrants" (Carrillo 2004) - migrants whose migratory and settlement processes are structured largely by their sexuality - in this study are contributing to, what I call, a "delicate" cultural of migration among queer Mexican men. I argue that for all the immigrant participants, while their sexual identities as gay men are central to the sense of selves, their ethnic and immigrant identities also profoundly impact their subjectivities. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws on my dissertation which is a mutli-sited ethnography of sexual identity formation among queer men in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and queer Mexican immigrant men living in Los Angeles. Based on interviews with the immigrant and non-immigrant participants and hundreds of hours of participant observation, this paper explores the potential impact that the Internet has on the development of sexual identities and transnational queer communities for the men in my study. I show that the men in my study, through their use of the Internet, are part of a transnational Pan-Latino gay culture since most of their virtual contact takes place with other queer Spanish-speaking Latinos worldwide I argue that the Internet acts as an agent of socialization where certain ideas and discourses about what it means to be gay as well as certain established norms and practices shape the sexual subjectivities and queer communities of the informants. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws on my dissertation research which is a multi-site ethnographic study of sexual identity formation among self-identified gay Mexican men in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Drawing specifically on the 25 interviews from the immigrant sample and extensive participant observation in Los Angeles, this paper interrogates the ways that self identified gay immigrant men negotiate their ethnic, immigrant and sexual identities on a daily basis, the potential role that transnational social networks play in their sexual identity formation processes and the ways that sexual identity impact their use of transnational networks. I argue that sexual identity, ethnicity and immigration create domains of common interest that draw the informants into transnational social networks thus allowing them to utilize these networks. Further, I argue that while the informants deploy various identities depending on the life circumstances which they find themselves, their sexual identities are central to their sense of self. However, rather than treating these identities as discrete I analyze the ways that their various identities constantly intersect in their sexual identity formation processes. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I move towards offering a social class analysis of the construction of Mexican and Mexican American male homosexualities. Drawing from my own qualitative research on a multi-classed population of homosexual Mexican and Mexican immigrant men, I argue that, in Mexico, within middle-class communities the activo/pasivo model, which appears to have dominated at one time, has increasingly been replaced by an object-choice or gay model of homosexuality. Similarly, I argue that in Mexico within poor or working class communities, the activo/pasivo form continues to dominate. By focusing on impact of social class on homosexuality throughout this paper, I contribute to the empirical study of Mexican homosexuality which has nodded towards the importance of such an analysis, but which, to date, has not provided a thorough examination of the relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]