ABSTRACT
What does it mean to think about sexuality transnationally, or within a transnational frame? The concept “transnational” refers to the movement of people, ideas, practices, institutions, and capital across national borders. Transnational movement affects sexuality in diverse and often unpredictable ways, like the global circulation of Western (particularly Western European and North American) cultural ideals of normative heterosexuality (e.g., standards of beauty) or lesbian and gay identities via mass media technologies; the movement of people across borders in search of sexual ventures or freedom from persecution; or people who engage in sexual labor as a means to support themselves and their families after migrating to a new country.
