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...Richard T. Rodríguez The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives . Sifuentes-Jáuregui Ben . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2014 . xi + 279 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 References Sifuentes-Jáuregui Ben . 2002...

... observation, archival records (minutes, flyers, newsletters, letters, and financial papers), and media accounts in the Chicago gay press. I describe the founding of LLENA and Amigas Latinas, their efforts to create Latina lesbian visibility in both the “Latino” and “lesbian” social and political cultures...

... ) that aimed to include previously excluded queer Latino/a populations within the American body politic. Focusing on news media reporting and political as well as activist responses to the shooting during the months of June–August 2016, the article shows how this process of homonationalist inclusion...

... moment when the virus remains an urgent health concern among young, queer Latino men even as the dominant culture locates the crisis in the past. Challenging health care inequities and interrogating conceptions of “healthy” sexuality, Cuadros's 1994 collection of prose and poetry, City of God...

...Bill Johnson González The small-budget independent film On the Downlow , directed by Tadeo Garcia and released in 2004, represents the star-crossed romance between two male Latino members of a Chicago street gang. I argue that the film provides a critique of the city's racialized organization...

... performer “superstar” Mario Montez, who were members of New York's artistic underground, to such an expansion. While Puerto Rican and Latino migrants to the city were associated in the works of underground artists with a seamlessly unfractured culture of fervor and belief that often made their cultural...

...Richard T. Rodríguez This essay contends that José Esteban Muñoz’s article “Dead White,” published in 1998 in GLQ , holds enduring significance for critically assessing representations of race in queer cinema. Following Muñoz’s lead to focus on the visual currency of the queer Latino body...

...Denise Minor This essay examines Poet Francisco X. Alarcón’s artistic expression of romance for gays within Latino communities. This study advances the concept of a “homoamorous” genre that privileges intimacy and romance between gay men without sensationalizing the physical contact...

...Diana Palaversich Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture Alfredo Mirandé Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1997. xi + 195 pp. $69.00 cloth, $22.00 paper In the Land of God and Man: Confronting Our Sexual Culture Silvana Paternostro New York: Dutton, 1998. 326 pp. $25.95 cloth, $13.95...

... Racialization in Contemporary Latinidad , is an innovative exploration of the ways that the ambiguities of Latino identity have broader implications for race politics in the United States. Grappo argues that Latinos are both excessively visible and easily erased, and that the vexed status of Latinos in US...

...-ricans-hear-a-roll-call-of-their-kin.html . Arbona Javier . 2016 . “ Queer Boricua Geopolitics and the Pulse Shooting .” June 25 . javier.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2016/06/25/queer-boricua-geopolitics-and-the-pulse-shooting/ . Associated Press . 2017 . “ Orlando’s Gay Latino Community...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 487 AVOWING THE QUEER LATINO AMERICAN BODY Richard T. Rodríguez The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui­ Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. xi + 279 pp. Ben Sifuentes-­Jáuregui’s first book, Transvestism...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 487 AVOWING THE QUEER LATINO AMERICAN BODY Richard T. Rodríguez The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui­ Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. xi + 279 pp. Ben Sifuentes-­Jáuregui’s first book, Transvestism...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF 487 AVOWING THE QUEER LATINO AMERICAN BODY Richard T. Rodríguez The Avowal of Difference: Queer Latino American Narratives Ben Sifuentes-Jáuregui­ Albany: State University of New York Press, 2014. xi + 279 pp. Ben Sifuentes-­Jáuregui’s first book, Transvestism...

... is to recognize his resi- dence in a city where Latino, Anglo-, and other American sectors coexist, conflict with each other, and engender new cultural forms of resistance. Alfaro’s Chicano queer identification is subject to the three simultaneous processes identified by Fernando Ortiz: cultural...

... 2015 About the Contributors Arnaldo M. Cruz-­Malavé is professor of Spanish and comparative literature and direc- tor of the Latin American and Latino Studies Institute at Fordham University in New York. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito...

... Press in 2007. He is working on a second book project, titled “Tes- timonial Fictions: Atrocity, Sexuality, and Memory in US Latin@ Literature and Culture.” Richard T. Rodríguez is associate professor of English and Latina/Latino studies at the University of Illinois...

..., these experiences impact forms of becoming for gay Latino and Filipino sons of immigrants. These gay men express the importance of respecting their immigrant parents and acknowledging the sacrifices they endured for better opportunities in the United States. Controlling and hiding their sexual orientations...

... collections saw the publication of far too many monographs and additional anthol- ogies than can be listed here, but Juana María Rodríguez’s Queer Latinidad: Iden- tity Practices, Discursive Spaces (2003) and Michael Hames-­García and Ernesto Javier Martínez’s Gay Latino Studies...

... was performed in East L.A. for an audience of Chicano families. The representation of gay desire and GLBTQ identities has been and con- tinues to be met with particular resistance within Chicano and Latino communi- ties. This resistance can be attributed in part to the prevailing...