Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Meeting the Macho -- LGBTQ in Latin America -- About this Book -- Appendix: Further Readings -- Notes -- Part I: Queer Subjectivity, Desire, and Eroticism -- 1. Queer Couples in Señora de Nadie (María Luisa Bemberg, 1982) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2. Fresa y chocolate: The Allure of Passions and Controversies (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, 1993) -- No Stranger to Critique -- The Fragile Culture of Critical Engagement -- Persuasions of Melodrama -- Reality in Counterpoint -- Watershed Film -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3. A Gaynster Quasi-Tragedy: Eroticism and Secrets in Plata quemada (Marcelo Piñeyro, 2000) -- Greek Tragedy and the Reviews -- Piñeyro's Cinematography -- Oscillating Desire in the Plot -- The Sexual Dynamic of the Male Bodies -- Obstacles of an Oscillating Eros -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 4. Pathology, Poetry, and Pleasure: HIV/AIDS, Confessional Writing, and S/M in Un año sin amor (Anahí Berneri, 2005) -- Mise en abîme -- Argentina at the Turn of the Millennium -- Argentina's Queerness from a Global Perspective -- The Global Cinema of HIV/AIDS -- Medicine and Literature -- Poetry: Pablo Neruda/Pablo Pérez -- Pablo's Writings: Poetry and Personals -- Pablo's Writing: Poetry and the Diary -- Leather and Masochism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II: Gay Authorship-Queer Agency and Spectatorship -- 5. La venganza del sexo: The Curious Mutation from Horror Fantasy into Sexploitation Film (Emilio Vieyra, 1967) -- Crime Thriller and Horror Fantasy -- The Mad Doctor and His Henchmen -- The Journalist as Voyeur -- Double Versions -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6. Inside-Out: A Socio-Spatial Reading of Mecánicas celestes (Fina Torres, 1995) -- Inside the Box -- Outside the Box -- Reinventing the Box -- Notes -- Works Cited.

7. La Virgen de los Sicarios: From Novel to Film (Barbet Schroeder, 2000) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8. A Case Study in Transnational Gay Auteurism: Mil nubes de paz cercan el cielo, amor, jamás acabarás de ser amor (Julián Hernández, 2004) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 9. Haunted: XXY (Lucía Puenzo, 2007) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III: Bisexuality Experiences and Lesbian Identities -- 10. Excluded Middle? Bisexuality in Doña Herlinda y su hijo (Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1984) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 11. The Construction of the Bisexual Subject in No se lo digas a nadie (Francisco Lombardi, 1998) -- Works Cited -- 12. Lesbians Made in Mexico: Sexual Diversity and Transnational Fluxes -- Made in Mexico -- Female Homosexuality: An Irreparable Evil -- All Inclusive in the Mexican Caribbean -- Unified Perceptions in a Transnational frame -- Ad hoc Products for International Audiences -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part IV: Queer Relations with Families -- 13. Clothes Make the Man: Closet, Cabaret, Cinema in El lugar sin límites (Arturo Ripstein, 1977) -- Works Cited -- 14. Families, Landowners, Servants, and Siblings in La ciénaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001) -- Swampy Scenes and Ambiguous Boundaries -- Boggy Symbiosis: Affection and Contempt -- Attraction and Repulsion -- Mired: Passengers on a Sinking Ship -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 15. Mapping Guilt, Betrayal, and Redemption: En la ciudad sin límites (Antonio Hernández, 2002) -- Star Memories -- Memoria histórica -- Queer History -- Place and Cinematic Space -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 16. Ronda nocturna: A Homage to Buenos Aires (Edgardo Cozarinsky -- Buenos Aires: Its Places and Its People -- The Aesthetics of the "Indirect Cinema" -- Sociohistorical Implications -- Ronda nocturna in the Context of Gay Cinema -- Buenos Aires and Its Young Gay Men -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors.

Index of Terms -- Index of Names -- Index of Concepts.