We are very pleased to announce the recent publication of Juan Carlos Mezo González’s new book, Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America (Duke University Press, 2026), which we at Southwest Humanities are proud to have indexed. In Gay Print Culture, Mezo González explores how gay liberation movements across Mexico, the United States, and Canada used print media (in particular, periodicals) to build community, spread political ideas, and visualize queer desires long before the internet made digital networking possible. The book traces how both grassroots gay liberation publications and commercially oriented lifestyle and erotic magazines produced, circulated, and were received from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, helping to shape a transnational sense of gay identity and activism across the American continent. Mezo González shows that, in addition to reporting on gay and lesbian movements and culture throughout North America, these publications helped construct the latter by creating shared visual languages, political frameworks, and community networks that cut across national borders. In particular, Mezo González highlights how periodicals and visual content were crucial tools for gay community building, identity formation, and political mobilization across the Western Hemisphere—especially at a time when mainstream media largely ignored or misrepresented LGBTQ+ lives. By drawing connections between visual culture and liberation politics, Gay Print Culture enriches our understanding of how queer communities communicated, resisted marginalization, and forged cross-border solidarities. It also reveals the tensions between representation and exclusion within these media spaces, thereby deepening conversations about race, sexuality, and power in historical and transnational perspective. For more information about this important new study, please see the publisher’s website here.