Roger Lancaster's latest book, "Struggle to Be Gay-in Mexico, for Example," was given a thorough and positive review in Compact Mag, which the author of the review Samuel Biagetti notes for both its intellectual rigor and humanity.
"However, for the nonspecialist, the book’s more fundamental strength lies in Lancaster’s compassion, which any ordinary reader can perceive. This compassion underpins his insistence on viewing his subjects as fully-fledged people with rich inner lives and his concomitant refusal to reduce them to political props or setpieces of gender performance. The Struggle to Be Gay reveals that the particular dilemmas of the queer scene in a particular country revolve, after all, around matters of the heart."
You can read the full review here.
September 07, 2024