[Commlist] New book: Gay Print Culture

Announcing a new publication from Duke University Press:

*Gay Print Culture*

A Transnational History of North America

*Juan Carlos Mezo González *

*_https://mngbookshop.co.uk/9781478033042/gay-print-culture/ 
<https://mngbookshop.co.uk/9781478033042/gay-print-culture/>_*

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*20% Discount code*: LSMNGUPS26*

*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30^th  June 2026. Discount only applies to the 
MNG website.

“In this remarkable and provocative book, Juan Carlos Mezo González 
reveals an intricate tapestry of archival material, interviews, and 
visual culture to show the ideas, people, and placement of queer 
activism as a borderland of desire. An exceptional analytical and 
archival undertaking, /Gay Print Culture/ is a testament to the 
importance of visual media as a tool for liberation activists.”—Patrizia 
Gentile, author of /Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler 
Femininity/

“Way before the internet, periodicals were key to the spreading of 
important information and the building of identities for many gay 
communities across the Western Hemisphere. Mezo González’s outstanding 
analysis of these publications from the 1970s and 1980s shows the 
central role they played in gay liberation movements. This highly 
accessible book is a must-read for anyone interested in social movements 
and gay rights.”—Jordi Diez, Professor of Political Science, University 
of Guelph

In /Gay Print Culture, /Juan Carlos Mezo GonzÁlez investigates the 
relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, 
and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada from the early 1970s 
through the mid-1990s. Mezo GonzÁlez examines the production, content, 
circulation, and reception of leading gay periodicals published in these 
countries, including community-based gay liberation publications and 
commercially oriented gay lifestyle and erotic magazines. He 
demonstrates how they aimed to visualize the political goals of gay 
liberation, particularly those concerning the liberation and celebration 
of homoerotic desires. Mezo GonzÁlez contends that visualizing these 
goals allowed activists, editors, publishers, and artists to foster the 
formation of gay communities and identities while advancing gay 
liberation movements at the local, national, and international levels. 
In so doing, he furthers understandings of the transnational nature of 
gay periodicals, the relationship between gay liberation politics and 
visual culture, and the existing tensions between the liberation of some 
and the oppression of others across the American continent.

*Juan Carlos Mezo GonzÁlez* is Assistant Professor in the Department of 
Humanities at Mount Royal University.

*Duke University Press | 05 January 2026 | 292pp | 9781478033042 | PB | 
£22.99**

*Price subject to change.


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