The artist’s ft and personal patgs documentg gay Chino culture the 1980s and ’90s take centre stage at Ortuzar Projects, New York
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.
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 study employs the theory of semtics to explore how the gay Chino wrer appli lguistic signs to velop a lerary inty an artistic op.
“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 *
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.
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. His but novel, What You See the Dark, published March, is neher sentially gay nor Chino.
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(Beg gay was another plitn, bee Muñoz stggled to e out of the closet and had not yet done so. 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.
“It removed the privacy of shame that n e along when you have a gay kid the fay, ” Muñoz says. “A lot of Chino wrers bank on amics beg our biggt champns, bee ’s hard for to break past what those adjectiv ‘gay’ and ‘Chino’ mean to most people and reach a more mastream dience.
Some men he’s met are fearful about g out to too many iends; others are closeted gays who are married. It’s like an out gay guy n’t be livg Tucson.
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“As a dark-skned, workg class, queer Chino woman, Anzaldúa stggled wh sexism, racism, classism and homophobia throughout her entire life, ” wrote Lra Mandanas at Autostraddle. Estefan even creds the LGBTQ+ muny for jumpstartg her reer, tellg Out Jersey, “The gay muny was one of the first muni that supported bee we were huge the clubs and the gay clubs, particularly, bee the gay muny is ually a ltle b ahead of trends and mil trends and fashn trends. ” But as a gay boy Texas, he did often feel like an outsir.
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 *
His novel “Cy of Night, ” which turns 50 this year, chronicl the journey of a young Mexin-Amerin om the borr town of El Paso to the gay unrworld of Tim Square, Hollywood Boulevard and the French Quarter of New Orleans durg the 1950s. It’s been more difficult for me to e out as a Mexin-Amerin than e out as gay. ”For the gay Chino wrer Benjam Alire Sáenz, wner of this year’s PEN/Flkner Award and a teacher the creative wrg partment at the Universy of Texas at El Paso, Mr.
”“It sadns me to thk that is rarely tght and mentned the Lato lerary non, which only go to show how homophobic the lerary tablishment has been, ” Mr.
"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 *
His body of work ranks as a major achievement Amerin, Lato and gay lerature. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page NaN of the Natnal edn wh the headle: A First Gay Novel, A Poor Lato Boyhood And the Confluence. Two years before his ath, he released Cy of God, a llectn of short stori and poems tailg life Los Angel for gay Mexin Amerin men.
J Homosex. "Sexualy Degree Zero" explor mon them and formal strategi the fictn of three proment gay Chino wrers: John Rechy, Arturo Islas, and Michael Nava. Analys of Rechy's e of pornography, of Islas' transgrsive e of cultural inography, and of Nava's e of sexual "perversns" the ntext of classic crime fictn, all go to monstrate the var of pleasure the nstctn of a doubly margalized but fiant self and voice fictn by gay Chino men.