Publications
Below you will find my academic and non-academic publications. If you are unable to access them, feel free to contact me and I will provide you with copies.
Academic Publications
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Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America (forthcoming in January 2026 with Duke University Press).
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Mezo González, Juan Carlos. "La prensa de liberación homosexual en la Ciudad de México: una lectura transnacional (1979-1983)." Historia Mexicana 74, no. 3 (January-March, 2025): 1317-1360.
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Brown, Elspeth, Cait McKinney, Dan Guadagnolo, Sajdeep Soomal, Juan Carlos Mezo González, Sid Cunningham, Caleigh Inman, Zohar Freeman, Amal Khurram, Alisha Krishna, and Mac Stewart. "Transmediation as Radical Pedagogy in Building Queer and Trans Digital Archives." Digital Humanities Quarterly 16, no. 2 (2022).
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Mezo González, Juan Carlos. "Consuming the Mexican Body: Gender, Race, and the Nation in Macho Tips, 1985-1989." Hispanic American Historical Review 100, no. 4 (2020): 655-687. Awarded honorable mention in the 2020/21 Article Prize of the Research Society for American Periodicals.
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Mezo González, Juan Carlos. "Desnudos sudamericanos: masculinidad, homoerotismo, y el trazo de una identidad queer a través del cuerpo del hombre." In Nuevas Cartografías de la Sexualidad, edited by Carmen Gregorio Gil, Ana Alcázar Campos, and José María Valcuende Del Río, 351-364. Granada, Spain: Universidad de Granada, 2020.
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Mezo González, Juan Carlos. "Contested Images: Debating Nudity, Sexism, and Porn in The Body Politic, 1971-1987." Left History 23, no. 1 (2019): 28-61.
Public History
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"ONSTAGE/OFFSTAGE: A Conversation with Curator Jordan King." LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, September 8, 2023.
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"Beefcake: An Exhibition on Physique Photography at the University of Toronto." LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, August 11, 2023.
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"A Conversation with Alex Ketchum about the Directory of LGBTQ+ Archives, by Juan Carlos Mezo-González." OutHistory, July 31, 2023.
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"A Conversation with Dr. Alex Ketchum about her Directory of LGBTQ+ Archives." LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, July 21, 2023.
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"Dignified Lives: A Digital Archive for Preserving Trans Memory in Mexico." LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory, June 23, 2023.
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"Macho Tips: revista pionera de la prensa gay mexicana." Letra S, Salud, Sexualidad y Sociedad 274, May 2, 2019.
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"Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine." NOTCHES: (re)marks on the history of sexuality, September 18, 2018.
Digital Exhibitions
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Juan Carlos Mezo and Zohar Freeman. "Mapping Foolscap: Gay Oral Histories, 1981-1987." Toronto, Oral History Project Digital Collaboratory & The Arquives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives, 2017.
Conference Proceedings
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"La Fiesta de los Muertos: Identidad, memoria y tradición entre los indios hurones a comienzos del siglo XVII." In Actas electrónicas del V SIRCP: Quinto Simposio Internacional sobre Religiosidad, Cultura y Poder, edited by Patricia A. Fogelman and María Florencia Contardo, Buenos Aires: Ediciones del GERE, 2014.