MARYSOL ASENCIO, "LOCAS," RESPECT, AND MASCULINITY: Genr Conformy Migrant Puerto Rin Gay Masculi, Genr and Society, Vol. 25, No. 3 (June 2011), pp. 335-354
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I was a ltle b worried about what homophobia would look like there bee when I was young, much younger, I gus when I was a teenager I would say, I would read so many stori the Spanish newspaper about gay people beg killed.
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We all have different issu, thgs that we have to learn our own liv and that was what I had to learn jt to learn who I was as a gay Puerto Rin and how the two are fully what I am, not one or the other. When you stay Condado — be at the Condado Ocean Club for a long weekend, or the AC Marrtt for bs — Condado will bee one of your favore beach to stroll at dk before a night out at the gay bars.
Wh Mart’s announcement, gay artists, who had long kept their sexual inti a secret, fally had a bean of hope. Sce that pot, a growg number of Lat artists have eher e out after years the spotlight, or many have simply started their reers by embracg their gay inti. Followg a lengthy perd of succs both the English and Spanish-language markets, Mart me out as gay a post on his webse 2010.
” His life was reflected his art wh 2010’s “Disparo al Corazón” mic vio, which featured a jt-married gay uple. At the height of Mexin pop group RBD’s succs 2007, member Christian Chávez me out as gay a post on the band’s webse. 2011’s “Libertad, ” which featur his former bandmate and Rebel -star Anahí, is one of the ’s bt LGBTQ+ equaly anthems Spanish — and Chávez dulg his bt gay life the mic vio.