“Borders are Both Real and Imagined”: Rejoicing on Lionel Cantú’s “De Ambiente: Queer Tourism and the Shifting Boundaries of Mexican Male Sexualities”

Salvador Vidal-Ortiz is an associate professor of sociology at American University in Washington, DC. He has coedited two books in English, The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men (New York University Press, 2009) and Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism (University of Texas Press, 2015), and coauthored Race and Sexuality (Polity Press, 2018). In Spanish, he coedited Travar el Saber, or “Trans-ing Knowledge,” based on narratives of trans and travesti people completing their high school degrees and attending college in Argentina (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2018). He continues work on his Santería manuscript, tentatively titled “An Instrument of the Orishas: Racialized Sexual Minorities in Santería.”