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Contents:
- A FIRST GAY NOVEL, A POOR LATO BOYHOOD AND THE CONFLUENCE
- GREGG BARRS' ACCLAIMED PLAY 'I-DJ' EXPLOR GAY, CHINO AND MIL SPAC
A FIRST GAY NOVEL, A POOR LATO BOYHOOD AND THE CONFLUENCE
As the classic gay novel “Cy of Night” turns 50, s Mexin-Amerin thor, John Rechy, reflects on lonels, growg up Deprsn-era El Paso, and how his life and reer me together. * gay chicano writer *
"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.
GREGG BARRS' ACCLAIMED PLAY 'I-DJ' EXPLOR GAY, CHINO AND MIL SPAC
"Sexualy Degree Zero" explor mon them and formal strategi the fictn of three proment gay Chino wrers: John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava. Employg the ncept of a policized textual "pleasure" as theorized by French cric Roland Barth, the study argu for the pol … * gay chicano writer *
This five-part theory is applied to the poetry and narrative of two gay Chino wrers, Francis Alarn and Arturo Islas.
“Aztlán Unprotected: Readg Gil Cuadros the Aftermath of HIV/AIDS” exam what the gay Chino wrer Gil Cuadros, whose work picts queer and China/o muni livg wh HIV/AIDS Los Angel durg the late 1980s and early 1990s, teach today, a historil moment when the vis remas an urgent health ncern among young, queer Lato men even as the domant culture lot the crisis the past. Challengg health re equi and terrogatg nceptns of “healthy” sexualy, Cuadros’s 1994 llectn of prose and poetry, Cy of God, is profoundly relevant at a time when prehensive health re accs for vulnerable populatns remas tenuo. Readg Cuadros the purported aftermath of HIV/AIDS prompts to face who n accs the protectn of a regnized polil muny (whether Aztlán or whe gay muni) and who is left unprotected. * gay chicano writer *
His award-wng memoir Always Runng offers a poignant, yet ultimately hopeful look at life the Ltle DeathBy Michael NavaMexin Amerin thor and attorney Michael Nava is bt known for his Henry Rs mystery books followg a an openly gay lawyer who leav no stone unturned his work for jtice the unrbelly of San Francis. ” Before his untimely disappearance 1974, he released his tobgraphil novel Autobgraphy of a Brown Buffalo, which explor self-disverg and livg as a Lato the Miraculo Day of Amalia GómezBy John Francis RechyKnown for both his sndalo sir look at gay life pre-Stonewall Ameri, Cy of Night, and his Chino outg The Miraculo Day of Amalia Gómez, Rechy is tght many Chino l class throughout the untry.
The books intify Muñoz as gay and Chino, labels that probably helped draw attentn to him as a wrer, as well as an early dience—which turn led to honors, cludg the prtig Whg Wrers’ Award 2008.
Much of Zigzagger, wrten his twenti, articulat the world of young gay Latos surround by Ameri’s agricultural bounty while leadg somewhat barren liv.
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His but novel, What You See the Dark, published March, is neher sentially gay nor Chino.
The artist’s ft and personal patgs documentg gay Chino culture the 1980s and ’90s take centre stage at Ortuzar Projects, New York * gay chicano writer *
(Beg gay was another plitn, bee Muñoz stggled to e out of the closet and had not yet done so.
This first cril bgraphy of Arturo Islas (19381991) brgs to life the plex and overlappg worlds habed by the gay Chino poet, novelist, scholar, and profsor. Gracefully wrten and eply rearched, Dancg wh Ghosts nsirs both the larger qutns of Islas's life--his sexualy, racial intifitn, and polil personaly--and the events of his everyday existence, om his childhood the borrlands of El Paso to his adulthood San Francis and at Stanford Universy. * gay chicano writer *
When his fay attend a public readg of Fah Healer that he gave for gay stunts at the California State Universy at Frno, they sat the back, “like they didn’t belong, ” he reports.
” The public readg also helped ntralize the fact that he is gay.
"Sexualy Degree Zero" explor mon them and formal strategi the fictn of three proment gay Chino wrers: John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava. Employg the ncept of a policized textual "pleasure" as theorized by French cric Roland Barth, the study argu for the pol … * gay chicano writer *
“It removed the privacy of shame that n e along when you have a gay kid the fay, ” Muñoz says.