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From Toads To Queens

Jacobo Schifter

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"A thorough investigation of a thus far neglected population. . . . Offers both broad and in-depth perspectives of the subject matter. . . . Dr. Schifter succeeds in presenting a vivid and compelling picture of the hard lives of transvestite homosexuals."" -- Alex Carballo-Diguez, PhD, Research Scientist, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, NY
The information in From Toads to Queens: Transvestism in a Latin American Setting (a 2000 Lammy Nominee) is crucial to understanding Latin American culture and its relation to HIV prevention. You’ll find research findings that offer insights into and analysis of the sexual culture and risk factors that place transvestites in the sex trade and their customers"

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .When we began working with the transvestite community in 1989, one of our principal aims was to learn more about transvestites‟ sexual culture, along with the risk factors associated with the spread of HIV in this population. Another aim was to gather information about this sexual culture in a specifically Latin American context, as a means of filling what is in effect a highly significant gap in the literature. Moreover, these two concerns remained at the fore as we embarked upon the second set of interviews in 1997. This work, therefore, seeks to analyse the sexual culture and risk factors which place transvestites and their customers at risk of contracting HIV.. . . Read More