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Contents:
- GAY LATO BOOKS
- LATO GAY LERATURELATO GAY LERATURE
- THE NEW GENERATN OF GAY LATO POETS
- LATO GAY LERATURELATO GAY LERATURE
- GAY AND LBIAN THEM LAT AMERIN WRG
- BAME MUCHO: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY LATO FICTN
GAY LATO BOOKS
Books shelved as gay-lato: Chulo by Charl Rice-González, From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Lato Fictn by Charl Rice-González, Ba by Alex Sanc... * gay latino literature *
(shelved 1 time as gay-lato). Even the facts that many of the patrons at the Stonewall Inn who participated the cint that sparked the gay liberatn movement were Puerto Rin and that the bar patron populatn was predomantly people of lor are ls often ced LGBT historil wrgs.
LGBT muny is somewhat problematic, due part to the fact that many of the publitns produced by and for this populatn the first after the begngs of the gay liberatn movement at the Stonewall monstratns 1969 took the form of newsletters created by lol anizatns which had limed circulatn and often existed for only a few years. They clu Afuera (1972) New York Cy, the Bullet om the Comé Homosexual Latoamerino ( whose first issue appeared New York June 1978) and Hoton’s quarterly Paz y Liberacn, which began publishg May 1979. The 1980s saw a group of new publitns ci as diverse as Los Angel (Unidad, 1982), Denver (S Fronteras, 1985), Hoton (Noticias l Gay Hispanic Cc, 1985-1990) and San Francis (S masras).
LATO GAY LERATURELATO GAY LERATURE
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In 1987, at the Natnal March for Lbian and Gay Rights Washgton, D. C., el Primer Encuentro Gais y Lbianas Latas was held, out of which me the Natnal Lato/a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Organizatn (LLEGÓ), although the new anizatn did not beg publishg a regular perdil until 1994, Aqui llego. The 1990s saw an expansn of this genre of perdils- jog Aqui llego were De ambiente: revista lata bisexual, lbi y gay Los Angel, La Gente Unida Newsletter om Denver, La entrevista: newsletter of Latos en Acción om Atlanta, A la brava om San Francis, a send Los Angel tle, Revista alante, and Chigo’s En la vida, which lasted until the end of 2003 and merged wh another publitn, Black L, to create a new tle, Inty, which ntued to provi verage of the cy’s LGBT Lato muny.
THE NEW GENERATN OF GAY LATO POETS
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The anizatns created the 1970s by gay and lbian Hispanics such as San Francis’s Gay Lato Alliance brought addnal issu of opprsn related to race and class (such as equal accs to tnal opportuni and votg rights) to the more general civil rights agenda of the gay liberatn movement.
John Rechy also ntued to addrs homosexualy his wrg, as evinced by his 1977 work The Sexual Outlaw: a documentary: a non-fictn acunt, wh mentari, of three days and nights the sexual unrground.
Other wrers active the 1970s were the poet Miguel Algar ( who wh other artists cludg playwright Miguel Pero found the Nuyorin Poets Cafe 1980) and Manuel Ramos Otero, the most important openly gay wrer of Puerto Ri wrg Spanish whose novels and stori were often set the Hispanic muny of New York Cy. A notable example of the anizatns is Gay and Lbian Latos Unidos Los Angel, whose agenda also clud poverty issu.
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The thors of the says this unique llectn explore the liv and cultural ntributns of gay Lato men the Uned Stat, while also analyzg t... * gay latino literature *
In 1986, the Internatnal Lbian and Gay People of Color Conference was held Los Angel, and as part of the event the Lato uc met to discs creatg a natnal anizatn foced on the LGBT Lato muny.
Discsn ntued to 1987 at the Lbian and Gay March on Washgton at el Primer Encuentro Gais y Lbianas Latas, rultg the formatn of the Natnal Lato/a Lbian and Gay Organizatn (more faiarly known by s acronym LLEGO.
GAY AND LBIAN THEM LAT AMERIN WRG
) Takg as s nstuenci the gay and lbian Lato muni both the Uned Stat maland and on Puerto Ri, emphasized anizg the muni om lol to natnal levels to addrs health, polil and social issu wh homophobia and sexism noted as specific ncerns.
BAME MUCHO: AN ANTHOLOGY OF GAY LATO FICTN
The papers of the LLEGO are held at the Universy of Texas librari wh an onle fdg aid available at Parallelg the growth of LGBT polil and social anizg, the 1980s also saw the publitn of signifint works Lata femist lerature which addrsed qutns of homophobia and lbian inty. The first edn of the groundbreakg anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Wrgs By Radil Women of Color eded by wrers Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga appeared om Persephone Prs 1981, and ntaed a sectn on “ Between the L: On Culture, Class and Homophobia. A send notable 1991 was David William Foster’s Gay and Lbian Them Lat Amerin Wrg om the Universy of Texas Prs.
The thor noted his troductn that “the ntemporary Lat Amerin novel fds self alg wh broad social and personal ncerns, and would be surprisg if there were no appearance of lbian and gay characters and their experienc…What is surprisg is the virtual lack of biblgraphy on the topic…” (Foster 1991: 1) Foster’s volume exam a selectn of works by a wi range of faiar and lser-known thors cludg Adolfo Camha, Luis Zapata, Agualdo Silva and Cassandra Rs. 1993 was notable for the publitn of a memoir by the proment Cuban novelist and poet Realdo Arenas, Before The Fall, ntug the tobgraphil tradn among Hispanic gay men begun three s earlier by John Rechy. Foster served as edor of Lat Amerin Wrers on Gay and Lbian Them: A B-Cril Sourcebook.
In 1998, a thoughtful study of the role(s) played by lbian and gay people the evolutn of New York’s Puerto Rin muny appeared as part of the anthology The Puerto Rin Movement: Voic om the Diaspora eded by Andrés Torr and José E.