Mexican mestizo gender imagery is deceptively simple, represented through categorical and essentialist classifications of male and female. However, the essen‐tialist notions which ground gender as unambiguous simultaneously work so as to disrupt the seemingly unequivocal categories of male and female. This article explores the way gendered distinctions are generated by examining the interconnections between heterosexual and male homosexual gender discourses in two Mexican mestizo contexts. Particular emphasis is placed on the significance of sexuality for eliciting meanings of gender, focusing on those cultural phenomena ‐ such as motherhood, virginity, machismo, penetration ‐ which serve to constitute same‐sex relations and cross‐sex relations differently.
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