The context
Where the work begins
A master's paper at U of T grew into a decade of research for Juan Carlos Mezo González. His first book, Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America, examines magazines published from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s and the connections their editors built across borders.
The takeaway
What follows
Those connections travelled through letters, visits and exchanged publications. Readers encountered news of protests and repression alongside visual art that presented gay desire positively. Mezo González consulted archives in Toronto, Mexico City and elsewhere, including The ArQuives. Now teaching at Mount Royal University, he brings archival materials into his courses so students can work directly with the documents.
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