In Red-Inked Retablos, author Rigoberto González recalls speaking to a literature class where a young man approached him with a question. The student asked González, if growing up gay in the Latino community was so difficult, why he continues to go back to it. González quickly responded, “Because I love my people.” Read More
"[...]'gayness' questions the idea that society has of itself."
In a wry voice that seamlessly combines both sincerity and camp, Luis Negrón's Mundo Cruel examines how desire, love, and sexuality simultaneously inspire and warp the citizens of Santurce, Puerto Rico. Read More
Mundo Cruel is a shrewd celebration of subversion, to be sure, but for all its bravado the broader point here is a quiet reaffirmation that we all possess the innate capacity to subvert the status quo. Read More
Coming out is a process as endless as its audiences, Francisco Aragón aptly quotes Kenji Yoshino in Glow of Our...
This dazzling debut takes the coming-out, coming-of-age narrative and gives it a fresh landscape, namely, the Bronx urban scene, where the street codes are “mixed into the concrete and asphalt that was used to build the neighborhood.” Read More
Justin Torres’ We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) is all the best one hopes to encounter in a young author’s debut...
In his introduction to Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing (University of Wisconsin Press), co-editor Lázaro Lima defines this slim volume’s...
Although Cuban-American Rafael Campo is a much anthologized, multiple-award winning poet and author, it remains difficult for openly gay Latino...
