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This paper tackles interactions between two fields of study since the 1960's. On the one hand, it presents academic production about sexual minorities in Mexico City, in order to observe how it integrates spatial variables; on the other hand, it studies in which forms urban studies have incorporated sexual minorities as an object of analysis. The first part of this paper describes academic works that have been produced about sexual minorities and illustrates the increasing weight of geographic aspects in the understanding of their practices and identities; whereas the second part offers a reading of those references to pay attention to the discussions and results related to contemporaneous metropolitan processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a first theoretical approach, trying to draw some lines and notes that may be relevant in order to think the transnational migration of trans1 people. Throughout this paper, therefore, we propose some possible linkages between notions 'such as 'frontier' and 'journey', that drawn through bodily geographies and gender linked to the question of citizenship, and allow us to think about the movement and identity (re)definition that trans-migrant individuals develop through these multiple dimensional migrations. What are we thinking when we question on transmigration and trans-migrant subjects?, Are the notions of travel and border useful and/or fit to reflect on this phenomenon of trans-migration? Is it possible to similarly think geographical migrations and gender ones, as travels and personal itineraries (ESTEBAN, 2004), involved in trading processes and transport of belongings and changing of identity positions, and which relationships can be found between national borders and physical boundaries of gender? Which role performs the body in the space of representation and practice of citizenship and its relationship to gender and ethnic-national and social class origins? It is around those issues that this work developed, with the intention to be a first approach to propositions that could be interesting in order to think about and outline new questions that could the complex relationship among corporeality, gender, immigration status and citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with gender differences in the daily mobility of the population in 'urban regions of Andalusia', using data from the "Social Survey 2011: Mobility in the urban regions of Andalusia", by the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia. In this work, differences in the main variables of mobility (purpose of travel, means of transport used and time spent on travelling) are discussed. Moreover, this paper highlights gender differences in people's mobility, the different reasons which lead men and women to take trips, a greater use of public transport by women and the importance of using cars as the main private resource for people's mobility in Andalusia, regardless the gender, or urban region of origin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose to account how people in prostitution have been educated in the field of sexuality, both in family and in school. Institutions which produce, reproduce and maintain the social order established by the patriarchal culture, which is ruled by patters that define man and women's roles. Therefore, those who adopt different gender identities than acceptable are morally rejected; consequently, trans people have to resort to prostitution as the only possible activity performed by their gender. These reflections are part of a research on transsexuals in prostitution in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, which uses as its instrument collection data of life stories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses mobility in metropolitan context, understood as the relationship between space, travel time, distance and accessibility. We analyze this phenomenon in the urban space. More specifically, we analyze mobility through the experience in public transportation of working class women in three cities: Recife, Managua and Guadalajara, in order to generate small portraits of gender mobility in different urban realities of Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Notwithstanding the remarkable contributions by Geography to the field of sexual minorities, there still exists a shrouding scientific marginality. Gay studies in Spain are also scarce and mainly framed by gender studies and centered on the concept of gay visibility, space production and tourist leisure. The term cruising is used to name gay men's anonymous sexual encounters in open/closed, public spaces near conurbations and presided over by a general lack of personal information exchange. This paper aims to examine cruising in three public, open spaces in Tenerife Island, thus intending to reduce the evident scientific marginality surrounding this practice by shedding some light on where they are, who visit them and why they drop by there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to rethink the metropolitan spatial practices not only as forms of reproduction, but also as forms of gender social innovation. The spatial analysis will be done on the basis of daily mobility practices in the everyday spatial experience of women in a popular neighborhood of downtown Mexico City. Practices that express ruptures and continuities, and that are not necessarily significant by their persistence, but by their importance in shaping the everyday life and the construction of an urban collective imaginary that occasionally shows increasing quests for breaking the continuity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]