The artist’s ft and personal patgs documentg gay Chino culture the 1980s and ’90s take centre stage at Ortuzar Projects, New York
Contents:
- HOW MACHISMO CULTURE IMPACTS GAY LATOS
- GAY CHINO ARTIST OF TWICE-DEFACED LGBT LATO MURAL SAN FRANCIS: 'WE EXIST'
- GAY CHICAGO MAGAZINE
- GAY CHINO ARTIST OF TWICE-DEFACED LGBT LATO MURAL SAN FRANCIS: 'WE EXIST'
- LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED
HOW MACHISMO CULTURE IMPACTS GAY LATOS
In the late 1970, young gay men om the Eastsi found their inty on the dis dance floors of Hollywood. * gay chicano *
A., and for the first time the cy’s history predomantly gay and straight Chino youth flood Hollywood’s dance floors. We beme fast iends, me out to each other, and started planng to transform our liv by visg a gay club we had heard about om a iend of a the journey om East Los Angel to Hollywood was a few short , to me seemed much further bee my fay never left the Eastsi, and I didn’t have a Friday eveng, feelg bold, I left my fay, who were watchg TV the livg room.
GAY CHINO ARTIST OF TWICE-DEFACED LGBT LATO MURAL SAN FRANCIS: 'WE EXIST'
Anton Viego, The Place of Gay Male Chino Lerature Queer China/o Cultural Work, Disurse, Vol. 21, No. 3, LATINA/O DISCOURSES IN ACADEME (Fall 1999), pp. 111-131 * gay chicano *
As I looked around, I noted how, the midst of all of downtown’s activy, this rner gave off s own gay vibe. On one si of the tersectn was the notor gay cisg ground of Pershg Square, and on Fifth Street there was a bookstore where you uld peek at magaz like Physique Pictorial and After Dark.
Here we vad the quiet world of mastream gay whe culture. There were no rabow flags or other obv ditors of a gay space.
GAY CHICAGO MAGAZINE
How did the stutnalizatn of machismo Mexin culture exclu and lim the Chino Queer muny? How did this lead to the creatn of Queer Aztlán? Factors that led to the creatn of Queer Aztlán Lbian and gay Chinos were exclud om gay movements which mostly nsisted of whe radils and acpanyg Anglo centricy Chino… * gay chicano *
The dis was not a space of tellectual but of visceral experienc; at that time our liv we were not able to talk about our sexual inty, but we uld perform on the dance floor while burng off our youthful Friday night trip to the Other Si was my quceañera, my g out where I was iated to gay life on my own terms. The timate 18-and-over gay clubs that lnched Hollywood’s and Wt Hollywoo’ds revalizatn were disappearg, makg way for new vtments and velopments.
Untilized old dtrial buildgs and vant storeonts uld fd new of all we learned how to create a vibrant, endurg, muny out of the margs by fg our Lato cultural valu wh the predomant gay whe male landspe. "Inty through Lerature of the Gay Chino" als wh aspects of homosexualy as manifted Chino lerature and as displayed several cross-cultural issu Mexi and the Uned Stat. This study employs the theory of semtics to explore how the gay Chino wrer appli lguistic signs to velop a lerary inty an artistic op.
This creatn of a lerary inty is based on what means to be homosexual both Mexin and U. This theoretil applitn ntas five pots that attempt to expla the characteristics of a gay Chino lerary work and par them to the Gay Chino experience, which draws on enunters om both sis of the borr.
GAY CHINO ARTIST OF TWICE-DEFACED LGBT LATO MURAL SAN FRANCIS: 'WE EXIST'
San Francis police are vtigatg as a possible hate crime the repeated vandalism of a gay cholo mural the Missn District, while the artist is hopg to e the visibily to support a lol chary. * gay chicano *
This five-part theory is applied to the poetry and narrative of two gay Chino wrers, Francis Alarn and Arturo Islas. The Place of Gay Male Chino Lerature Queer China/o Cultural Work on JSTOR.
LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED
A PST: LA/LA exhibn anized by the ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv and the Mm of Contemporary Art looks at the wi reach of queer Chino artists of the '70s and '80s. * gay chicano *
Now known as the Stonewall Rts, this pivotal event led to cril advancements the gay liberatn movement and the begngs of annual pri celebratns of queer visibily and muny solidary.
HuffPost Live explored this qutn Friday, vg four gay Latos to share their own experienc and the impact machismo has had on their liv.
HuffPost Live host Karamo Brown was joed by queer Chino journalist Albert Serna, Jr., The Huffgton Post’s assignment edor Mars Saldivar, executive director of jtice matters prs, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, and director of Latos Studi at the Universy of Michigan, Lawrence La Founta-Stok -- each of whom had very different ias about how machismo impacts gay Latos the U.
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Discsn was prompted by Serna's recent blog post, "Gay, Lato and Macho, " which exam the impact that machismo has on gay Lato men. “So when you’re gay, beg gay is supposed to be liberatg and you’re supposed to be ee and flamboyant, but that’s not exactly what beg a man entails [the] Lato muny, so is difficult to e out and to say, pecially if you’re mascule, to say that you’re gay and embrace homosexualy.
” Lozano disagreed and said that he felt that attributg the problems faced by gay Latos to machismo or Lato culture jt “sensatnaliz” and “racializ” what he believ is a shared gay experience. Founta-Stok offered his sight and wrapped the segment wh a statement that simultaneoly ntextualized and validated the panelists' differg views: “Lato masculi and Lato sexuali, Lato homosexuali the U. “To portray [Latos] as exclively homophobic or machista is a very limed perspective.
Deadlee and Baby Boi Slim make unapologetic mic about beg gay and Lato. * gay chicano *
”Watch Serna, Saldivar, Lozano and Founta-Stok discs machismo the vio above, and click here for the full HuffPost Live on HuffPost:Puerto Ri's First-Ever Mass Gay WeddgPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Lbian and gay Chinos were exclud om gay movements which mostly nsisted of whe radils and acpanyg Anglo centricy. Did not openly accept gay men and lbians among s ranks.