Beneath the Equator

"Parker has written an impressive book that looks deeply in the changing "cultures of desire" in gay communities of Brazil. Parker has a unique talent of writing in such a way that you enjoy reading the book...." -"AIDS Book Review Journal "Parker's compassionate and clearly written study of male-male sexual relationships in Brazil is one of the most important works of the late 20th century to illustrate the interrelated elements of personal desire, oppression, local culture, and global phenomena." -"Choice, November 1999 "This excellent overview is designed as the first in a series of monographs examining Brazilian homosexuality. Appropriate for larger public and academic libraries." -"Library Journal, 2/99 "Parker's book is a dazzling portrait of a sexual culture in rapid change, but also an illumination of the ways in which sexuality becomes a focus of complex cultural forces, producing a rainbow hue of diversity." -Jeffrey Weeks, author of" Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty(1995) "Parker's analysis centers on multiple overlapping and distinct realities in terms of race, class, age, gender performance, cultural styles, or erotic practices, all of which inform Brazilian gay life. Parker delineates the contours of the urban gay world of Brazil by focusing on the growth of a gay-identified cultural industry, the superimposition of a gay commercial world over homoerotic practices, as well as the emergence of a gay activism as a consequence of AIDS...." -Fernando Arenas "Luso-Brazilian Review