Contents:
- APPRECIATN: WHY LUIS ZAPATA’S BREAKTHROUGH GAY MEXIN NOVEL MANDS A NEW TRANSLATN
- EIANO ZAPATA, ¿ERA GAY CLóSET?
APPRECIATN: WHY LUIS ZAPATA’S BREAKTHROUGH GAY MEXIN NOVEL MANDS A NEW TRANSLATN
Gay and closeted men dulged the thrill of quicki wh strangers the men’s room stalls, or picked one another up for later, to the eternal tratn of the staff. The Sanborns cha — owned today by the ultra-wealthy Carlos Slim — beme a bean for a burgeong muny, allowg gay people to gather at a time when the ernment was clampg down on social dissints of every kd, cludg LGBTQ is the sort of illumatg cultural lore no one ever bothered to wre down Mexi — until the publitn 1979 of the novel “El vampiro la lonia Roma, ” or “The Vampire of Colonia Roma, ” by Luis the height of social ntrol unr the thorarian le of the Instutnal Revolutnary Party, or PRI, Zapata’s novel upend stereotyp of gay Mexin inty through the story of a lonely htler named Adonis García.
EIANO ZAPATA, ¿ERA GAY CLóSET?
To this day, is beloved by gay and nongay rears alike.