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• BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS: 8 HARDVER – 19 SEPTEMBER 2022
• BROWN AND GAY LA
• ANTHONY CHRISTIAN OMPO'S LATT BOOK IS 'BROWN AND GAY LA'
• OUR EXPERIENCE UNTS AS KNOWLEDGE: ‘BROWN AND GAY LA’ GO BEYOND WT HOLLYWOOD
• THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA
• BROWN AND GAY IN LA
• BROWN AND GAY LA
• BROWN AND GAY LA
• BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS
• BROWN AND GAY LA

BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS: 8 HARDVER – 19 SEPTEMBER 2022

In orr to actually experience, not simply explore, and fely not explo, the liv of Brown and Gay men LA, Ompo summons the artistry of our ft wrers, movg om watcher to rear to wns to this once a generatn offerg.

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Drawg on richly veloped life histori of gay Lato and Filipo men Los Angel, Ompo brgs to light the untold stori of young men at the margs of multiple muni who experience the blunt force of racism and homophobia while also rvg out spac of muny and belongg. Brown and Gay LA prents a vivid, rigoro, and heartfelt examatn of how muny n serve as a radil bulwark agast lonial legaci, relig tolerance, and racial excln. In a seri of tenr portras, he v to the heady world of Brown and Gay Los Angel at a time of momento change.

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* Ellen Wu, the thor of The Color of Succs: Asian Amerins and the Origs of the Mol Mory * Brown gay sons of immigrants have been largely visible nearly all their lifeworlds - often overtly or implicly hostile to some part of their inty - as well as the amic worlds that would do well to learn om them. * Joshua Gamson, thor of Morn Fai: Stori of Extraordary Journeys to Kship * In this betifully wrten book, Ompo vividly tells the g-of-age stori of over 60 young Filipo and Lato gay men Los Angel.

Their experienc navigatg the perilo landsp shaped by racism and homophobia along wh the ght expectatns of masculy are heartbreakg. * Grace Kao, -thor of The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relatnships om Adolcence to Adulthood * Brown and Gay LA is at once an cisive soclogil analysis of immigratn om the perspectiv of race, sexualy, and geography, and an emotive acunt of liv fed om multiple margs. NPR's A Martez speaks wh thor Anthony Christian Ompo about his book Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons.

Lookg for a nnectn as a gay man himself, he cid to terview the gay sons of Lato and Filipo immigrants Los Angel.

ANTHONY CHRISTIAN OMPO'S LATT BOOK IS 'BROWN AND GAY LA'

For immigrants, 's the land of opportuny, but for a very long time history, LA has been the safe haven for gay people across the untry and across the world.

MARTÍNEZ: Ompo wr about all of this his latt book, "Brown And Gay In LA: The Liv Of Immigrant Sons. Ompo spent many a night at Wt Hollywood's gay bars, a welg space for him and others like Same-sex marriage beme feral law 2015, but at the same time, technologil advanc really have rhaped everyday gay life. So before, when you ed the ter to meet other gay people, you had to, like, s down at a puter and fd folks through a webse, right?

OUR EXPERIENCE UNTS AS KNOWLEDGE: ‘BROWN AND GAY LA’ GO BEYOND WT HOLLYWOOD

And while that is fely an advantage, I thk what did is changed the landspe of gay muni. I mean, jt seems like was a very ugly remr that for gay men, equaly didn't mean erasg fear and livg Not at all.

MARTÍNEZ: So let's get to that, about parents and pecially immigrant parents when to their sons who are gay, who are livg a life that they haven't exactly been their te, hont selv yet, at least to their parents. But he told me que often our nversatn, I'm aaid that me beg gay is gog to somehow my parents' dreams for this untry. Their parents nied , rejected them, reacted ways that were not very supportive, cg the Bible as a reason why they n't be gay.

And I thk that those were difficult moments bee for the young men that fally e to terms wh beg gay, that should be a liberatg moment.

THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA

And, you know, even though she's not jog PFLAG, which is, like, that anizatn for parents of gay kids, really meant a lot that she was willg to share her own story of her first heartbreak. MARTÍNEZ: Anthony Christian Ompo's book is lled "Brown And Gay In LA: The Liv Of Immigrant Sons.

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“Brown and Gay L. ” tak on the tersectn of the immigratn experience and queer life Los Angel — a first-person acunt that expands to take the stori of dozens of gay men he’s terviewed across a scene he’s navigated for the better part of the last emerg is a nuanced perspective on this particular kd of g-of-age: g out, perhaps leavg home for llege, fdg new fai public and private spac.

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Ompo wr lovgly of gathergs that have provid gay men of lor an pe not jt om the judgment of tradnal fai but also om the cultural domance of whe Wt was ftg that as Ompo and I discsed the geography of queer Los Angel, we were both llg om our rpective childhood neighborhoods.

But was very rare that the gay men I terviewed had their stori clud books, articl, nferenc and class. Sometim people assume that gay spac are tomatilly clive or welg. ’s so ’s a way Filipos are sorted to the gay scene bee there is no Asian scene.

BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS

You eher go wh the whe gays or the brown and Black gays. And I image that for a lot of people that aren’t accepted their fay or their iends, or who don’t have a lot of accs to learng about what means to be gay, those spac are still really important. About Beg Brown And Gay In LA.

I barely know how to put an outf together to go out to gay bars, but I nnot flake on my iends.

At this pot, I am a so-lled baby gay.

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Gay cholos? Whoa — md was part of my growg up Brown and gay L.