Book Recs: Gay Spanish Poets — Reads Rabow

Contents:

• TEN MT-READ 2022 BOOKS BY QUEER LATO THORS
• GAY LATO BOOKS
• BOOK RECS: GAY SPANISH POETS
• THE NEW GENERATN OF GAY LATO POETS

TEN MT-READ 2022 BOOKS BY QUEER LATO THORS

stellano, pañol, pañola, ficción, fictn, gay, homosexual, lbian, lbiana, lgbt, lgbti, lgtb, leratura, narrative, novela, queer, spanish, trans, transgenr. Even the facts that many of the patrons at the Stonewall Inn who participated the cint that sparked the gay liberatn movement were Puerto Rin and that the bar patron populatn was predomantly people of lor are ls often ced LGBT historil wrgs. LGBT muny is somewhat problematic, due part to the fact that many of the publitns produced by and for this populatn the first after the begngs of the gay liberatn movement at the Stonewall monstratns 1969 took the form of newsletters created by lol anizatns which had limed circulatn and often existed for only a few years.

They clu Afuera (1972) New York Cy, the Bullet om the Comé Homosexual Latoamerino ( whose first issue appeared New York June 1978) and Hoton’s quarterly Paz y Liberacn, which began publishg May 1979. The 1980s saw a group of new publitns ci as diverse as Los Angel (Unidad, 1982), Denver (S Fronteras, 1985), Hoton (Noticias l Gay Hispanic Cc, 1985-1990) and San Francis (S masras). In 1987, at the Natnal March for Lbian and Gay Rights Washgton, D.

GAY LATO BOOKS

C., el Primer Encuentro Gais y Lbianas Latas was held, out of which me the Natnal Lato/a Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Organizatn (LLEGÓ), although the new anizatn did not beg publishg a regular perdil until 1994, Aqui llego. The 1990s saw an expansn of this genre of perdils- jog Aqui llego were De ambiente: revista lata bisexual, lbi y gay Los Angel, La Gente Unida Newsletter om Denver, La entrevista: newsletter of Latos en Acción om Atlanta, A la brava om San Francis, a send Los Angel tle, Revista alante, and Chigo’s En la vida, which lasted until the end of 2003 and merged wh another publitn, Black L, to create a new tle, Inty, which ntued to provi verage of the cy’s LGBT Lato muny.

The anizatns created the 1970s by gay and lbian Hispanics such as San Francis’s Gay Lato Alliance brought addnal issu of opprsn related to race and class (such as equal accs to tnal opportuni and votg rights) to the more general civil rights agenda of the gay liberatn movement. John Rechy also ntued to addrs homosexualy his wrg, as evinced by his 1977 work The Sexual Outlaw: a documentary: a non-fictn acunt, wh mentari, of three days and nights the sexual unrground.

Other wrers active the 1970s were the poet Miguel Algar ( who wh other artists cludg playwright Miguel Pero found the Nuyorin Poets Cafe 1980) and Manuel Ramos Otero, the most important openly gay wrer of Puerto Ri wrg Spanish whose novels and stori were often set the Hispanic muny of New York Cy.

BOOK RECS: GAY SPANISH POETS

A notable example of the anizatns is Gay and Lbian Latos Unidos Los Angel, whose agenda also clud poverty issu.

In 1986, the Internatnal Lbian and Gay People of Color Conference was held Los Angel, and as part of the event the Lato uc met to discs creatg a natnal anizatn foced on the LGBT Lato muny.

Discsn ntued to 1987 at the Lbian and Gay March on Washgton at el Primer Encuentro Gais y Lbianas Latas, rultg the formatn of the Natnal Lato/a Lbian and Gay Organizatn (more faiarly known by s acronym LLEGO.

THE NEW GENERATN OF GAY LATO POETS

) Takg as s nstuenci the gay and lbian Lato muni both the Uned Stat maland and on Puerto Ri, emphasized anizg the muni om lol to natnal levels to addrs health, polil and social issu wh homophobia and sexism noted as specific ncerns. The papers of the LLEGO are held at the Universy of Texas librari wh an onle fdg aid available at Parallelg the growth of LGBT polil and social anizg, the 1980s also saw the publitn of signifint works Lata femist lerature which addrsed qutns of homophobia and lbian inty. The first edn of the groundbreakg anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Wrgs By Radil Women of Color eded by wrers Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga appeared om Persephone Prs 1981, and ntaed a sectn on “ Between the L: On Culture, Class and Homophobia.