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In 2015, Mexico City declared itself a "gay-friendly" city and followed up with a gay tourist guide and new laws permitting changes to gender markers on legal documents, sanctioning same-sex marriage, and allowing joint adoption of children. At the same time, patterns of violence and discrimination against women, trans, and queer people have continued throughout the country. In Queer Relajo, David Tenorio argues that while Mexico City aims to bring visibility to queer sociality, the benefits of legitimizing queer space remain unclear.
Combining readings of film, digital media, and performance with drag autoethnography, Queer Relajo quite literally plays with how relajo (or playfulness) structures the spaces of queer nightlife in urban contexts by revealing how nighttime intimacy can minimize the paralyzing effects of violence and precarity in a neoliberal Mexico. Considering the political implications of when a queer/trans person is present at night, Tenorio argues that queer feelings of play are not only essential to sexual liberation, but also resist neoliberal commodification and heteronormative extraction.
Contents
CONTENT
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Reflections of A Mirrorball
PART I: Dragging Mexicanidad
1. The Chromatic Axis of Piña Colada
2. The Broken Records of Drag Performance
PART II: Fumbling Toward Urban Nightscapes
3. Play, Sex, and Dance in the Queer Underground
4. Reflections of a City's Nightscapes
PART III: The Shade and Shadow of Travesti Nightlife
5. The Shadowy Frames of Travesti Nightlife
6. The Kaleidoscope of Travesti Nightlife in Casa Roshell
Coda. Glows of Jotería
Notes
Works Cited
Index
