High-risk homosexual : a memoir / Edgar Gomez.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY: Soft Skull, 2022.Description: xi, 287 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781593767051
- 306.76/62092 B 23
- HQ75.8.G72 A3 2022
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Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | HQ 75.8 GOM 2022 | 1 | Available | 2629111 |
"A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man in a culture of machismo, Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: his uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at twelve years old to become a man. The story then moves through the queer spaces where he learned the joy of being gay and Latinx, including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor's office where he was diagnosed a "high-risk homosexual." With vulnerability, humor, and quick-witted insights into racial, sexual, familial, and professional power dynamics, Gomez shares a hard-won path to taking pride in the parts of himself that he'd kept hidden. It's a hilarious, beautiful reminder of the importance-in a world that is so often oppressive-of leaving space for joy"--
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