LGBT Lato Artists Threatened After San Francis's Gay Cholo Chino Mural Defaced

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

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. As I looked around, I noted how, the midst of all of downtown’s activy, this rner gave off s own gay vibe.

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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.

GAY CHINO ARTIST OF TWICE-DEFACED LGBT LATO MURAL SAN FRANCIS: 'WE EXIST'

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. This five-part theory is applied to the poetry and narrative of two gay Chino wrers, Francis Alarn and Arturo Islas.

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The Place of Gay Male Chino Lerature Queer China/o Cultural Work on JSTOR. 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.

GAY CHINO ARTIST OF TWICE-DEFACED LGBT LATO MURAL SAN FRANCIS: 'WE EXIST'

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.

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.

LGBT LATO ARTISTS THREATENED AFTER SAN FRANCIS'S GAY CHOLO CHINO MURAL DEFACED

”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.

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mentns how the eedom of gay men is related to the eedom of women. The mural was origally schled to rema up for jt one month -- but now Pl has bigger plans for his piece, which picts illtratns the classic cholo style of a gay uple, a lbian uple, and a trans man at the center, posned above the words "Por Vida" ("For Life") tells The Advote La Galeria is now "workg on ways of g a lacquer on the mural that n wash off pat, " se the mural is faced aga.

"We [gay Latos] exist, " says Pl. ""Everythg is segregated, " Pl ntu, "even wh the gay muny -- where some gay Latos aren't accepted.

"After the repeated vandalism of the mural, people om San Francis's historilly LGBT-iendly Castro District have been g down to the Missn to help out, which Pl se as "buildg the gay muny too. The first Chino Gay poets wrg llective, "Las Cuarto Espas, " me together 1985 wh their tone poetry llectn, Ya Vas Carnal published by Humanizarte publitns, an offshoot of Poetasumanos and El Telote Lerar, featurg work om the most active wrers the group: Francis X.

Ya Vas Carnal lays down the groundwork for an "out" gay Chino poetic activism and lerary practice. Not long after the murrer nfsed and Francis was cleared we e back aga; a new awarens filled : the awarens of bloody body stctn, of Teddy Gomez's story, of the potent Missn lerary scene, of wrers and artists om var muni and ethnici jog and speakg out, of Francis's renewed sense of his gay realy, of our ignorance and separatns om what is real the streets.