Review of Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System, by Christopher Chitty (Duke University Press, 2020). In seventeenth-century Valencia, Spain, Juan de la Vega, an impoverished, silk-weaving apprentice became estranged from his family and befriended another teenager, Nicolás González. Procured by Nicolás, Juan and other boys turned tricks for … Continue reading The Political Economy of Homophobia