In this article, we discuss notions of masculinities from an understudied group in the United States: Latinx immigrants in regards to medical services regarding HIV and AIDS. We understand this group from the result of the intersection between migration policies and binational discourses, the idea of “vulnerability” and “risk” produced by an acute biomedicalization of bodies and human groups, and gender-particularly masculinity as a discourse that governs sex. Notions were obtained from focalized individual interviews with Latinx immigrants and medical services providers in rural areas of California. Results show that notions on masculinity deploy different forms of sexual behaviors and relationships that diminish men’s responsibility around sexual health and stigmatize femininity and homosexuality. We conclude that reformulating health policies in order to recognize Latino’s vulnerability from cojuntural and intersectional conditions is of most importance.
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