ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the complex process that gay and MSM migrants endure when dealing with their homoerotic sexual desires, hegemonic masculinity, and the stigma associated with homosexuality. It analyzes different levels and forms of coming out or not coming out. It emphasizes the plurality and hierarchies of gay masculinities that are presented among these men, and the performances they activate in the context of multiple dislocations produced by migration. It also shows the various strategies that these Peruvian men perform to negotiate between “sexual freedom” and cultural isolation in different contexts: the Peruvian migrant community in the United States, their families in Peru and in the United States, and their gay social networks.
