The Stggl And Triumphs Of Growg Up Brown And Gay In LA | LAist

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• ANTHONY CHRISTIAN OMPO'S LATT BOOK IS 'BROWN AND GAY LA'
• OUR EXPERIENCE UNTS AS KNOWLEDGE: ‘BROWN AND GAY LA’ GO BEYOND WT HOLLYWOOD
• THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA
• BROWN AND GAY LA
• BROWN AND GAY LA
• BROWN AND GAY IN LA
• BROWN AND GAY LA
• ‘BROWN AND GAY L.A.’: INTERSECTNALY, INTY AND IMMIGRANT SONS
• BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS (ASIAN AMERIN SOCLOGY) KDLE EDN
• BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS
• BROWN AND GAY LA
• "BROWN AND GAY LA"
• GAY SONS OF IMMIGRANTS TALK ABOUT THE WEIGHT THEY RRY 'BROWN AND GAY LA'

ANTHONY CHRISTIAN OMPO'S LATT BOOK IS 'BROWN AND GAY LA'

NPR's A Martez speaks wh thor Anthony Christian Ompo about his book Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons. Lookg for a nnectn as a gay man himself, he cid to terview the gay sons of Lato and Filipo immigrants Los Angel. For immigrants, 's the land of opportuny, but for a very long time history, LA has been the safe haven for gay people across the untry and across the world.

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OUR EXPERIENCE UNTS AS KNOWLEDGE: ‘BROWN AND GAY LA’ GO BEYOND WT HOLLYWOOD

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MARTÍNEZ: So let's get to that, about parents and pecially immigrant parents when to their sons who are gay, who are livg a life that they haven't exactly been their te, hont selv yet, at least to their parents.

THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA

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MARTÍNEZ: Anthony Christian Ompo's book is lled "Brown And Gay In LA: The Liv Of Immigrant Sons.

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” tak on the tersectn of the immigratn experience and queer life Los Angel — a first-person acunt that expands to take the stori of dozens of gay men he’s terviewed across a scene he’s navigated for the better part of the last emerg is a nuanced perspective on this particular kd of g-of-age: g out, perhaps leavg home for llege, fdg new fai public and private spac. Ompo wr lovgly of gathergs that have provid gay men of lor an pe not jt om the judgment of tradnal fai but also om the cultural domance of whe Wt was ftg that as Ompo and I discsed the geography of queer Los Angel, we were both llg om our rpective childhood neighborhoods. But was very rare that the gay men I terviewed had their stori clud books, articl, nferenc and class.

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’s so ’s a way Filipos are sorted to the gay scene bee there is no Asian scene.

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‘BROWN AND GAY L.A.’: INTERSECTNALY, INTY AND IMMIGRANT SONS

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BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS (ASIAN AMERIN SOCLOGY) KDLE EDN

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Profsor and Soclogist Anthony Ompo, thor of "Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons" (Courty Anthony Ompo).

BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS

Throughout the book he terviews people about that exact experience of growg up gay …and Brown… this wr about the joy of disverg onelf but also about the hard journey is to get there; the challenge of feelg like you don’t f or that you are disappotg your parents bee you are not who they want you to of the folks he talked to shared that when they me out, their parents dropped them off Mexi, took away their ID and told them they need to work on their sexualy.

Anthony not that many people had horrible, homophobic have changed for the better sce. Not that I wanted to harp on the trma, but I wanted folks to remember that even if we have same-sex marriage, don't erase the fact that gay folks experience trma.

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Brown and Gay LA is at once an cisive soclogil analysis of immigratn om the perspectiv of race, sexualy, and geography, and an emotive acunt of liv fed om multiple margs. In a seri of tenr portras, he v to the heady world of Brown and Gay Los Angel at a time of momento change.

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In orr to actually experience, not simply explore, and fely not explo, the liv of Brown and Gay men LA, Ompo summons the artistry of our ft wrers, movg om watcher to rear to wns to this once a generatn offerg. Brown and Gay LA has got all. Drawg on richly veloped life histori of gay Lato and Filipo men Los Angel, Ompo brgs to light the untold stori of young men at the margs of multiple muni who experience the blunt force of racism and homophobia while also rvg out spac of muny and belongg.

Brown and Gay LA prents a vivid, rigoro, and heartfelt examatn of how muny n serve as a radil bulwark agast lonial legaci, relig tolerance, and racial this betifully wrten book, Ompo vividly tells the g-of-age stori of over 60 young Filipo and Lato gay men Los Angel. Their experienc navigatg the perilo landsp shaped by racism and homophobia along wh the ght expectatns of masculy are gay sons of immigrants have been largely visible nearly all their lifeworlds — often overtly or implicly hostile to some part of their inty — as well as the amic worlds that would do well to learn om them. Growg up the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured Brown and Gay LA uld not have felt further removed om a world where queerns was accepted and celebrated.

Instead, the men profiled here manver through fay and iendship circl where masculy domat, gay sexualy is unspoken, and heterosexualy is strictly enforced.

GAY SONS OF IMMIGRANTS TALK ABOUT THE WEIGHT THEY RRY 'BROWN AND GAY LA'

He shows what was like for the young men to grow up gay an immigrant fay, to be the one gay person their school and ethnic muny, and to be a person of lor predomantly Whe gay spac.

Brown and Gay LA is an homage to send-generatn gay men and their radil refn of what means to be gay, to be a man, to be a person of lor, and, ultimately, what means to be an Amerin. In orr to actually experience, not simply explore, and fely not explo, the liv of Brown and gay men LA, Ompo summons the artistry of our ft wrers, movg om watcher to rear to wns to this once a generatn offerg. ” —Kie Laymon, thor of Heavy: An Amerin Memoir and Long Divisn“Ompo’s Brown and Gay LA is a brilliant and soulful ethnography that merg probg cril analysis, social history, and cultural quiry, wh emotnal clary and digny.

In a seri of tenr portras, he v to the heady world of Brown and gay Los Angel at a time of momento change.