From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction

For the first time since 1999, when the ground-breaking anthologies Bésame Mucho and Virgins, Guerillas and Locas appeared, has a collection of gay Latino fiction in English been published.

Prepare yourself to dance in a disco in Silver Lake, check out papis in Orchard Beach, cross the border from Guatemala to Mexico on your way to the U.S., see a puro macho bathe in a river in Puerto Rico, make love under a full moon in the Dominican Republic, sigh at a tender moment in an orange grove in Lindsay, visit a panadería in Kansas, see a full blown birthday party in Juarez and be seduced by a young artist in the South Bronx. These are some of the stories in this collection of 29 gay Latino writers from around the United States. There are “don’t mess with me” divas, alluring bad boys and sexy teenagers, but also empowered youth for whom being queer is not a question and a family that grows wings on their heads. The infectious rhythms of House music in New York City are adjacent to cumbia in Mexico, next to reggaetón in Puerto Rico, alongside Latin pop in L.A. and merengue in an east coast city. But the spectrum of experiences and emotions that inhabit our days give these stories dimension and gay/queer Latinos a common ground. The stories are vibrantly varied and clearly connected in this “era of lost signals”* in which we live.

*phrase from Ben Francisco’s “The Fermi Paradox”

Fiction by:
David Caleb Acevedo - Miguel Ángel Ángeles - Ricardo Bracho - C. Adán Cabrera - Bronco Castro - Johnathan Cedano - Booh Edouardo - Ben Francisco - Danny González - Rigoberto González - Anthony Haro - W. Brandon Lacy Campos - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes - Jimmy Lam - Miguel M. Morales - Bryan Pacheco - Alfonso Ramírez - Guillermo Reyes - Charles Rice-González - Alex G. Romero - Chuy Sánchez - Edwin Sánchez - Rick J. Santos - Jesus Suarez - David Andrew Talamantes - Justin Torres - Benny Vásquez - Charlie Vázquez - Robert Vázquez-Pacheco

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From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction

For the first time since 1999, when the ground-breaking anthologies Bésame Mucho and Virgins, Guerillas and Locas appeared, has a collection of gay Latino fiction in English been published.

Prepare yourself to dance in a disco in Silver Lake, check out papis in Orchard Beach, cross the border from Guatemala to Mexico on your way to the U.S., see a puro macho bathe in a river in Puerto Rico, make love under a full moon in the Dominican Republic, sigh at a tender moment in an orange grove in Lindsay, visit a panadería in Kansas, see a full blown birthday party in Juarez and be seduced by a young artist in the South Bronx. These are some of the stories in this collection of 29 gay Latino writers from around the United States. There are “don’t mess with me” divas, alluring bad boys and sexy teenagers, but also empowered youth for whom being queer is not a question and a family that grows wings on their heads. The infectious rhythms of House music in New York City are adjacent to cumbia in Mexico, next to reggaetón in Puerto Rico, alongside Latin pop in L.A. and merengue in an east coast city. But the spectrum of experiences and emotions that inhabit our days give these stories dimension and gay/queer Latinos a common ground. The stories are vibrantly varied and clearly connected in this “era of lost signals”* in which we live.

*phrase from Ben Francisco’s “The Fermi Paradox”

Fiction by:
David Caleb Acevedo - Miguel Ángel Ángeles - Ricardo Bracho - C. Adán Cabrera - Bronco Castro - Johnathan Cedano - Booh Edouardo - Ben Francisco - Danny González - Rigoberto González - Anthony Haro - W. Brandon Lacy Campos - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes - Jimmy Lam - Miguel M. Morales - Bryan Pacheco - Alfonso Ramírez - Guillermo Reyes - Charles Rice-González - Alex G. Romero - Chuy Sánchez - Edwin Sánchez - Rick J. Santos - Jesus Suarez - David Andrew Talamantes - Justin Torres - Benny Vásquez - Charlie Vázquez - Robert Vázquez-Pacheco

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From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction

From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction

by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction

From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction

by Charles Rice-Gonzalez

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For the first time since 1999, when the ground-breaking anthologies Bésame Mucho and Virgins, Guerillas and Locas appeared, has a collection of gay Latino fiction in English been published.

Prepare yourself to dance in a disco in Silver Lake, check out papis in Orchard Beach, cross the border from Guatemala to Mexico on your way to the U.S., see a puro macho bathe in a river in Puerto Rico, make love under a full moon in the Dominican Republic, sigh at a tender moment in an orange grove in Lindsay, visit a panadería in Kansas, see a full blown birthday party in Juarez and be seduced by a young artist in the South Bronx. These are some of the stories in this collection of 29 gay Latino writers from around the United States. There are “don’t mess with me” divas, alluring bad boys and sexy teenagers, but also empowered youth for whom being queer is not a question and a family that grows wings on their heads. The infectious rhythms of House music in New York City are adjacent to cumbia in Mexico, next to reggaetón in Puerto Rico, alongside Latin pop in L.A. and merengue in an east coast city. But the spectrum of experiences and emotions that inhabit our days give these stories dimension and gay/queer Latinos a common ground. The stories are vibrantly varied and clearly connected in this “era of lost signals”* in which we live.

*phrase from Ben Francisco’s “The Fermi Paradox”

Fiction by:
David Caleb Acevedo - Miguel Ángel Ángeles - Ricardo Bracho - C. Adán Cabrera - Bronco Castro - Johnathan Cedano - Booh Edouardo - Ben Francisco - Danny González - Rigoberto González - Anthony Haro - W. Brandon Lacy Campos - Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes - Jimmy Lam - Miguel M. Morales - Bryan Pacheco - Alfonso Ramírez - Guillermo Reyes - Charles Rice-González - Alex G. Romero - Chuy Sánchez - Edwin Sánchez - Rick J. Santos - Jesus Suarez - David Andrew Talamantes - Justin Torres - Benny Vásquez - Charlie Vázquez - Robert Vázquez-Pacheco


Product Details

BN ID: 2940011442308
Publisher: Lethe Press, Inc.
Publication date: 08/01/2011
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 296 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Charles Rice-Gonzalez (co-editor)was born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. Charlie Vázquez (co-editor) is a radical Bronx-bred writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. His fiction, articles, and essays have been published in various anthologies, magazines and newspapers and he hosts a monthly reading series called HISPANIC PANIC! (in the East Village), which focuses on original queer Latino literature.

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