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Walls talk: homoerotic networks and sexual graffiti in public washrooms in Havana

Paredes que falam: redes homoeróticas e grafiti sexual em banheiros públicos de Havana

Paredes que hablan: redes homoeróticas y grafiti sexual en baños públicos de La Habana

This essay analyzes discourses and narratives of men who frequent the washrooms at public venues in Havana. The graffiti on toilet room walls works as an articulator of micro markets of sexual communication and gender/sexual relations. In this article graffiti is the focus of an ethnographic approach to everyday life and discourses on homoeroticism at play in those sites. The final part of the essay moves on from graffiti in public toilets to chart other places constituting a homoerotic ambiente in Havana.

Havana; homoerotic ambient; sexual graffiti; public washrooms


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