The Homoerotics of Immigration Control

There is and is not a linear movement between AB101, Prop. 187, Operation Gatekeeper, 3000-plus deaths, and Tom Tancredo’s failed presidential campaign. Better we understand these terms and histories and discourses as a kind of assemblage with a powerful impact. Gay citizen-activists and many of the non-gay immigrant poor may see themselves as strange bedfellows, but their relationship is indeed an embedded one.