Abstract

HIGGINS, Michael J.  and  COEN, Tanya L.. Breaking Models: Ethnographic Portrait of a Transvestite Family in Urban Oaxaca. Desacatos [online]. 2002, n.9, pp.89-95. ISSN 2448-5144.

This article is based on interviews with a group oftransvestite men who work as prostitutes and have grouped together as a Union to Fight for the Prevention of Transmittable Diseases. This organization was set up to fight for the right to work the streets and to promote AIDS education among their customers and in public forums. The authors present the ethnographic portrait of Leslie and those whom she considers to be her family: Adrian, her husband; Tania, her roommate and friend, whom she refers to also as her sister, and Iridiann Leslie -a four-year-old girl- that the three ofthem have adopted as their daughter.

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