California State Polytechnic Universy soclogy profsor and thor Anthony Ompo spoke Tuday about what means to be “brown and gay the USA”. He addrsed atten om Northwtern, Northeastern Illois Universy and Oakton College as part of programmg for Asian Amerin and Pacific Islanr Herage Month. The program was a partnership between Multicultural Stunt Affairs at...
Contents:
- OUR EXPERIENCE UNTS AS KNOWLEDGE: ‘BROWN AND GAY LA’ GO BEYOND WT HOLLYWOOD
- ANTHONY CHRISTIAN OMPO'S LATT BOOK IS 'BROWN AND GAY LA'
- ‘BROWN AND GAY L.A.’: INTERSECTNALY, INTY AND IMMIGRANT SONS
- THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA
- ‘BROWN AND GAY THE USA’: AUTHOR ANTHONY OMPO TALKS TERSECTNALY AS A FILIPO AND QUEER SCHOLAR
- BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS (ASIAN AMERIN SOCLOGY #8)
- BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS
- "BROWN AND GAY LA"
- NEW BOOK SPOTLIGHTS EXPERIENC OF GAY SONS OF IMMIGRANTS LOS ANGEL
- BROWN AND GAY LA
- HOTON RTRANT’S OFFER OF HALF PRICE TO ‘BROWN & GAY’ EMPLOYE INSPIR ANGER
OUR EXPERIENCE UNTS AS KNOWLEDGE: ‘BROWN AND GAY LA’ GO BEYOND WT HOLLYWOOD
Scholar Anthony Christian Ompo talks about drawg on his earlier years as a queer Filipo om Eagle Rock for his book 'Brown and Gay LA.' * brown and gay *
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ANTHONY CHRISTIAN OMPO'S LATT BOOK IS 'BROWN AND GAY LA'
NPR's A Martez speaks wh thor Anthony Christian Ompo about his book Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons. * brown and gay *
” 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. 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.
‘BROWN AND GAY L.A.’: INTERSECTNALY, INTY AND IMMIGRANT SONS
Feelg like you have to choose between your inty of race or sexualy, not knowg who you are, and the immense prsure of beg a first-generatn immigrant child. The are jt some of the topics discsed at the “Brown and Gay L.A.” event last week. Anthony Ompo, the thor of “Brown and Gay ... * brown and gay *
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.
THE STGGL AND TRIUMPHS OF GROWG UP BROWN AND GAY IN LA
A new memoir by soclogist Anthony Ompo reflects on growg up gay and a child of immigrants early 2000s L.A. * brown and gay *
’s so ’s a way Filipos are sorted to the gay scene bee there is no Asian scene. 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.
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. 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.
‘BROWN AND GAY THE USA’: AUTHOR ANTHONY OMPO TALKS TERSECTNALY AS A FILIPO AND QUEER SCHOLAR
* brown and gay *
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? 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.
BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS (ASIAN AMERIN SOCLOGY #8)
The stori of send-generatn immigrant gay men g of age Los Angel Growg up the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured Brown and Gay LA uld not have felt further removed om a world where queerns was accepted and celebrated. Instead, the men profiled here manver through fay and iendship circl where masculy domat, gay sexualy is unspoken, and heterosexualy is strictly enforced. For the men, the path to sexual eedom often volv chasg the dreams while ristg the expectatns of their immigrant parents--and fdg muny each other. Ompo also tails his own story of rencilg his queer Filipo Amerin inty and those of men like him. He shows what was like for the young men to grow up gay an immigrant fay, to be the one gay person their school and ethnic muny, and to be a person of lor predomantly Whe gay spac. Brown and Gay LA is an homage to send-generatn gay men and their radil refn of what means to be gay, to be a man, to be a person of lor, and, ultimately, what means to be an Amerin. * brown and gay *
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.
BROWN AND GAY LA: THE LIV OF IMMIGRANT SONS
Jo for a book talk wh thor, Dr. Anthony Ompo. Growg up the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured Brown and Gay LA uld not have felt further removed om a world where queerns was accepted and celebrated. For the men, the path to eedom often volv chasg the dreams while ristg the expectatns of their immigrant parents—and fdg muny each other. Ompo also tails his own story of rencilg his queer Filipo Amerin inty and those of men like him. * brown and gay *
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.
"BROWN AND GAY LA"
Shortly after the 2016 shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, Anthony Ompo began wrg his most recent book. * brown and 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.
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.
NEW BOOK SPOTLIGHTS EXPERIENC OF GAY SONS OF IMMIGRANTS LOS ANGEL
The stori of send-generatn immigrant gay men g of age Los AngelGrowg up the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured ... * brown and gay *
Anthony Ompo discsed his latt book, “Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons. The are jt some of the topics discsed at the “Brown and Gay L.
BROWN AND GAY LA
Anthony Ompo, the thor of “Brown and Gay L.
HOTON RTRANT’S OFFER OF HALF PRICE TO ‘BROWN & GAY’ EMPLOYE INSPIR ANGER
Ompo is a son of Filipo immigrants, who intifi as gay and is om Northeast Los Angel. Anthony Ompo’s latt book, “Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons. “Brown and Gay” tackl how Asian Amerin and Lat Amerin sons of immigrants navigated their queerns and brownns while growg up, acrdg to Ompo.
In other words, folks felt like if they’re Lato, they n’t be queer, or if they’re Filipo, they n’t be gay. He gave a lecture discsg his latt book, ”Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons. The most signifint pot Ompo prented to dience members was how boys of lor he terviewed often tried to excel amilly to “make up” for beg gay.
Ompo was told multiple tim that men would rather have been “the smart kid” than “the gay kid. The event discsed Ompo’s latt book, “Brown and Gay LA: The Liv of Immigrant Sons. “When he was talkg about the experienc of beg Filipo Amerin and gay and havg to ver g amics, was like he was readg me, ” said Javonillo, a UC Irve Ph.