Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI,  Ciudad de México, Junio 1° – 5 de 2005 Avenida Cuauhtémoc esq. Avenida Central Doctores, México D.F. 06720

Apertura (1° de junio de 2005) por Don Gilberto Rincón Gallardo, Presidente del Consejo Nacional para Prevenir la Discriminación

Special Panel Sessions/Mesas Especiales:

	Mesa Especial/Special panel session:  Keynote address/Conferencia Magistral:  Understanding and Expressing Maori Sexuality This panel will discuss the findings from a three year research project that explores the understandings and expressions of Maori Sexuality in Aotearoa (New Zealand). The Maori Sexuality Project has been created to support the consciousness, advance the practice of, and promote the availability of Maori understandings and definitions of Maori sexuality. The Maori Sexuality Project The project is composed of a team of researchers at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, led by Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Dr Leonie Pihama, Dr Clive Aspin and Ms Glenis Philip-Barbara.
	Mesa Especial/Special panel session:  Keynote address/Conferencia Magistral:  Historia GLBT a Través de la Literatura  Carlos T. Mock is the author of the book: Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey - (Floricanto Press 2003). Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT Round Table.
Mesa Especial/Special panel session:  Diversity Studies in Toluca: Presentation of Projects under Development A special panel session organized by the Association of Anthropology Students at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toluca, Mexico (ADETEA) Mesa organizada por la Asociación  de Estudiantes en Temáticas Antropológicas (ADETEA) de la Facultad de Antropología de la UAEMéx,  Topic to be announced/ Título de ponencia por anunciar

Abstracts/Resumenes de las Ponencias

Locating the lisp gene

Carl Mika

International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education (IRI), University of Auckland.  

Militancia LGBT de Izquierda, El Colectivo Peruano Raíz Diversidad Sexual: Construyendo Ciudadanía, Derribando los Closets Opresores

Manuel Herrera Loayza 

Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM (México)

Discriminación contra personas con VIH/SIDA en el ambiente gay

Luis Manuel Arellano 

Consejo Nacional para la Prevención y Control del SIDA en México

La Experiencia Leather en México

Charlie Ceballos

Club Leather Mexico

Conceptualization Of Modern Western Sexual Orientation In An African Society

Anuolam Modestus Kelechi

Bonesa Khanya Project (South Africa)

The Place of Takatapui Identity within Maori Society: Reinterpreting Maori Sexuality within a Contemporary Context

Clive Aspin

International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education

University of Auckland , New Zealand

Homosexuality in the Church; Its Implications in Africa

Amadi Bede Obinna

Owerri, Nigeria

B.Phil.(Rome}, M.Sc.{IMSU, Nigeria}                 

The epiphany of post-modern in between sexuality and the curtain call of language: new writing by wo-men?? in Greece

Christiana Lambrinidis

Independent scholar, playwright, director, activist, Greece

Tihei Mauri Ora; Cosmology, Narrative and Maori Sexualities

Glenis Philip-Barbara, Ngāti Rangi and Te Whanau a Tapuhi, International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education (IRI), University of Auckland.

Our Destiny:  Gay and Lesbian Civil Unions and Their Families

Sharon Hawke, Ngāti Whātua, 

University of Auckland Health Science

Director Moko Productions.

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Mera Penehira, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, Centre of Research Excellence for Māori Development and Advancement, 

University of Auckland (New Zealand)

Indian Women and Sexuality in 21st Centuary: An Exploratory Study in Northern India

Kailash Chander

ISNF, CCS Haryana Agril. University,

Hisar, Haryana, India

Gay Times in Oaxaca: Changing Celebrations of Third Gender 

Brenda Maiale
Department of Anthropology, 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

“Queer Politics”: Female Youth in America Deploying Agency and Constructing Sexual Identities

Jessi Willis

Clark University

Women’s Studies Program

Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

From the Myth of the Seed and the Soil to Myth of Romantic Love

Cigdem Bugdayci

Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

Gender Role Reversal in Bellydance: The Sword as Transgressive Feminine Symbol

Ruel A. Macaraeg

Department of Linguistics

University of Texas at Arlington, USA

‘Among Women:’ The Examination of Homoerotic Relationships between Black Women in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries of America Through Love Letters, Diaries, and Nella Larsen’s Passing

Desiree Fields

Department of Women's History,

Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., USA

The Discourse of Homosexuality in the Age of the Internet: The Egyptian Case

Mikiya Koyagi

Department of Middle Eastern Studies, 

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Representations, Recollections, Recognition, Respect: Straight Truths and Queer Fantasies in Two Stories of Communist Identity

Joseph Maslen

Department of History, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures

Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester, UK

Hable con ella: Bernarda’s House for the New Millennium

Nicole Altamirano

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Understanding sexual identity and the African-American culture in the United States 

Pamela Valera

College of Social Work

University of South Carolina, USA

The Diversity of Transgender Politics in four Western Countries

Jan Wickman

Department of Sociology

Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland

Transnational Queer Networks:  Transforming Sexual Identities among “Gay” Mexican Immigrant Men?

James Thing

Department of Sociology

University of Southern California, USA

Internet Sexuality: Sexual behavior and sexual identity in cyberspace

Pamela Valera

College of Social Work

University of South Carolina, USA  

Western Ideology and Traditional Sexualities in the Internet

Sergey A. Kizima

Department of Humanities

Minsk Institute of Management, Belarus

The Globalization of Rainbow Sexual Identities: A Dilemma of Queer Theory

Michael Groneberg

Département de Philosophie

Université Fribourg

Fribourg, Switzerland

Gay Hegemony Latino Homosexualities: The Love that Cannot Stand not Being not Named

Manolo Guzmán

Sociology Department

Marymount Manhattan College, New York, USA

Laberintos de sangre, incesto, sexualidad, y ficción: artefactos borgesianos en Cien Años de Soledad

Sarah Schoellkopf

University of California at Berkeley, USA

The Eroticization of ‘Being qua Being’:  Friedrich Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy

Wayne A. Borody

Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies

North Bay, Ontario, Canada

Rainbow Jews: Representations of Jewishness and Homosexuality in American Theater, 1980 to the Present

Jonathan C. Friedman

West Chester University

West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Isaac Stolzfuts’ Journal:  A Web Log about Male Sexuality, Art, Culture, and Politics
John Bittinger Klomp
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

“El avance gay en el mundo musulmán: ¿liberación o nuevo colonialismo?”

Max D. Kramer

Department of French and Romance Philology

Columbia University, USA

UFR de Littérature française et comparée

Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, France

A Woman’s Duty: Margaret Sanger and the Emergence of a Feminist Discourse countering Traditional Sexual Identities in Pre-World War I New York

Patricia Walsh Coates

Department of Secondary Education

Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA  

Sexuality and its Discontents: Cultural Implications and Impacts on Western Ideologies. 

Adeola Immanuel Ayodeji

Department of Philosophy

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria

”Gay India”?

Terry Goldie

English Department,

York university, Toronto, Canada

Unmasking  the Macho Male: Masculinity in the Caribbean

Jerome Teelucksingh

History Department,

University of the West Indies, Trinidad

TransAzioni - transgender and transsexualism FtM in Italy - a psychosocial research

Mary Nicotra

Clinical psychologist 

President of Associazione DonneInViaggio, Torino, Italy

Things which aren't to be given names: Caribbean Feminist understandings of same gender desire and sexual relations

Shana L. Calixte

Department of Women’s Studies

York University, Toronto, Ontario  

Two-Spirit: Gay-les-bi-trans-inter-queer self-positioning in Native North America. Lüder Tietz

Cultural Gender Studies

Universität Göttingen, Germany

A Family Drama in Colonial New Spain

Lars Ivar Owesen-Lein Borge 

Institut für Historische Ethnologie

Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main/Enkidu

¿Y cual es mi etiqueta?

Gilda Alexandra Hara

Presidenta de TransGen - México

Lugares de Encuentro Sexual para Hombres en Ciudad de México

Gabriel Gutiérrez (Anodis)

Dos Sexenios: Activismo y Diversidad en México.

Agustín Villalpando (Enkidu)

La Sociedad Rosa en el Districto Federal: Entre la Identidad Politica y la Identidad Comercial

Alonso Hernandez (ENAH)