This essay brings together the US Supreme Court’s Boutilier v. INS decision and Arturo Islas’s The Rain God to analyze the negation of homosexual and queer experience in the legal negotiation of access to citizenship. The article brings together methodological frameworks from literary, legal, queer, and Latina/o/x studies to argue that citizenship requires a narrative presence, one that immigration policy and its judicial interpretation has, until recently, refused to homosexual migrants. In analyzing The Rain God’s depiction of Felix as a legal intermediary between migrant laborers and US citizenship alongside standing immigration policy insistent on homosexual exclusion, this article demonstrates how homosexuality is leveraged not only against queer people, but also against their immediately surrounding communities to negate queer presence in US legal and cultural contexts.

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法律意义上的酷儿：布蒂利埃诉移民归化局和阿图罗·伊斯拉斯的《雨神》中对公民身份的否定和谈判

本文结合美国最高法院的 Boutilier v. INS 判决和 Arturo Islas 的 The Rain God 来分析在获得公民身份的法律谈判中对同性恋和酷儿经验的否定。这篇文章汇集了文学、法律、酷儿和拉丁裔/o/x 研究的方法论框架，认为公民身份需要一种叙事存在，直到最近，移民政策及其司法解释都拒绝同性恋移民。在分析雨神将菲利克斯描述为移民劳工和美国公民之间的合法中介以及坚持同性恋排斥的长期移民政策时，本文展示了同性恋如何不仅被用来对付酷儿，