Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Re-membering Gay Latino Studies / Michael Hames García and Ernesto J. Martínez 1

Queer Theory Revisited / Michael Hames García 19

Comment. It's All in Having a History / María Lugones 46

Gay Shame, Latina- and Latino-Style: A Critique of White Queer Performativity / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 55

Comment / Ramón García 81

The Place of Gay Male Chicano Literature in Queer Chicana/o Work / Antonio Viego 86

Comment. Our Queer Kin / Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel 105

Carnal Knowledge: Chicano Gay Men and the Dialectics of Being / Richard T. Rodríguez 113

Comment. Entre Machos y Maricones: (Re)Covering Chicano Gay Male (Hi)Stories / Daniel Enrique Pérez 141

Entre Hombres/Between Men: Latino Masculinities and Homosexualities / Lionel Cantú 147

Comment. The Material and Cultural Worlds of Latino Gay Men / Tomás Almaguer 168

Gay Latino Cultural Citizenship: Predicaments of Identity and Visibility in San Francisco in the 1990s / Horacio N. Roque Ramírez 175

Comment / Ramón A. Gutiérrez 198

Feeling Brown: Ethnicity and Affect in Ricardo Bracho's The Sweetest Hangover (and Other STDs) / José Esteban Muñoz 204

Comment. Never Too Much: Queer Performance between Impossibility and Excess / Ricardo L. Ortíz 220

Shifting the Site of Queer Enunciation: Manuel Muñoz and the Politics of Form / Ernesto J. Martínez 226

Comment. Dancing with the Devil—When the Devil is Gay / Paula M. L. Moya 250

Choreographies of Resistance: Latino Queer Dance and the Utopian Performative / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 259

Comment / Daniel Contreras 281

Dance Liberation / David Román 286

Comment. Dance with Me / Frances Negrón-Muntaner 311

Bibliography 321

Contributors 349

Index 353

Michael Hames-García

María Lugones

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Ramon Garcia

Antonio Viego

Luz Calvo

Richard T. Rodríguez

Daniel Enrique Perez

Lionel Cantú

Tomás Almaguer

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez

Ramón Gutiérrez

José Esteban Muñoz

Ricardo L. Ortiz

Paula M. L. Moya

Ramón H. Rivera-Servera

Daniel Teodoro Contreras

David Román

Frances Negron-Muntaner

Ernesto Javier Martínez

Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Winner, 2012 Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Anthology category

“Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader is a collection of essays that's a literate chinga tu madre to the heteronormativity that's still endemic in Mexican (and Latino) society. Remember, gentle raza readers: We can't be homophobes and whine about Mexi discrimination in the same breath. Help eradicate H8 by buying this libro.” — Gustavo Arellano, "Ask a Mexican" column

“Gay Latino Studies is an important reader that will be useful to students and scholars in a range of disciplines, including American, Chicano, Latino, and ethnic studies; queer, feminist, and gender studies; and performance studies, English, and sociology. . . . Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader will be a valuable reference work for any university or personal library, for readers familiar with the themes and debates in gay Latino and Chicano studies, and for readers who are just entering these vital conversations.” — Marci L. Carrasquillo, MELUS

“I breathe a sigh of relief with the publication of Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Even before it existed, it was missing. . . . The chapters are speaking to each other, having conversations. This format invites readers to listen and chime in. . . . And that’s what’s so cool about Gay Latino Studies for me. It feels familiar, like I know these brothers, and I do. Like I’m in those pages here and there, and I am.” — Tatiana de la Tierra, La Bloga

"Gay Latino Studies is a provocative volume. It stimulates readers to take a critical look at the debates and studies surrounding sexuality. The introduction ("Remembering Gay Latino Studies") as well as the following ten articles included in the book--with their respective commentary--allow us to find at least two major lane markers in the shifting sands of the areas of sexuality, race and gender studies. On the one had they challenge us to recognize the unfinished character of our analytical tools and methodology as well as the complexities of research and of the social and political actors that give new meaning to academic endeavors. They invite us as well to reflect upon the context of academic production. How is it produced? What is produced? From where does it speak? Who is speaking?" (Translated from the Spanish) — Sofía Arguello Pazmiño, Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad: Revista Latinoamerican.

"I’ve been waiting for a book like this – as personal and intellectually stimulating as this one – for over a decade. A book that uses, and yet does not take for granted, the very categories that inspire its existence. This inspiring compilation of chapters (some of which have been published in the previous decade) followed by recent critiques effectively offers a critical studies reader that moves between the categories, gay and queer, in complex ways. This, for some of us, is inevitably our bible." — Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Latino Studies

Winner, 2012 Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Anthology category

“Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader is a collection of essays that's a literate chinga tu madre to the heteronormativity that's still endemic in Mexican (and Latino) society. Remember, gentle raza readers: We can't be homophobes and whine about Mexi discrimination in the same breath. Help eradicate H8 by buying this libro.” —Gustavo Arellano, "Ask a Mexican" column

“Gay Latino Studies is an important reader that will be useful to students and scholars in a range of disciplines, including American, Chicano, Latino, and ethnic studies; queer, feminist, and gender studies; and performance studies, English, and sociology. . . . Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader will be a valuable reference work for any university or personal library, for readers familiar with the themes and debates in gay Latino and Chicano studies, and for readers who are just entering these vital conversations.” —Marci L. Carrasquillo, MELUS

“I breathe a sigh of relief with the publication of Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Even before it existed, it was missing. . . . The chapters are speaking to each other, having conversations. This format invites readers to listen and chime in. . . . And that’s what’s so cool about Gay Latino Studies for me. It feels familiar, like I know these brothers, and I do. Like I’m in those pages here and there, and I am.” —Tatiana de la Tierra, La Bloga

"Gay Latino Studies is a provocative volume. It stimulates readers to take a critical look at the debates and studies surrounding sexuality. The introduction ("Remembering Gay Latino Studies") as well as the following ten articles included in the book--with their respective commentary--allow us to find at least two major lane markers in the shifting sands of the areas of sexuality, race and gender studies. On the one had they challenge us to recognize the unfinished character of our analytical tools and methodology as well as the complexities of research and of the social and political actors that give new meaning to academic endeavors. They invite us as well to reflect upon the context of academic production. How is it produced? What is produced? From where does it speak? Who is speaking?" (Translated from the Spanish) —Sofía Arguello Pazmiño, Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad: Revista Latinoamerican.

"I’ve been waiting for a book like this – as personal and intellectually stimulating as this one – for over a decade. A book that uses, and yet does not take for granted, the very categories that inspire its existence. This inspiring compilation of chapters (some of which have been published in the previous decade) followed by recent critiques effectively offers a critical studies reader that moves between the categories, gay and queer, in complex ways. This, for some of us, is inevitably our bible." —Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Latino Studies

“Gay Latino Studies is a startlingly original collection of essays on the culture and social worlds of gay Latinos. Using a wonderful format that pairs essays with response pieces, the book as a whole reads like a sparkling conversation full of wit, insight, cultural relevance, and political critique. Covering topics from gay shame and shamelessness, to dance and sexual identity, to the impact of HIV on gay Latino communities, Gay Latino Studies will quickly find its way onto bookshelves and into classrooms around the world.” — Judith Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity

“This collection will be an indispensable reference for any scholar working in queer or Latina/o studies. With its broad disciplinary and theoretical scope, it effectively establishes the field of gay Latino studies. It will shape the questions posed in this realm of study for some time to come.” — Ramón Saldívar, author of The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary

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