Queer Brown Voices

Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism

Author: Uriel Quesada
Secondary Author: Letitia Gomez
ISBN: 9781477307304

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/os faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific set of priorities so as to accommodate a “unified” agenda. To disrupt the cycle of sexism, racism, and homophobia that they experienced, LGBT Latinas/os organized themselves on local, state, and national levels, forming communities in which they could fight for equal rights while simultaneously staying true to both their ethnic and sexual identities. Yet histories of LGBT activism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s often reduce the role that Latinas/os played, resulting in misinformation, or ignore their work entirely, erasing them from history.Queer Brown Voices is the first book published to counter this trend, documenting the efforts of some of these LGBT Latina/o activists. Comprising

Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publish Date: 2015-09-01

Subjects: Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies, Social Science / LGBT Studies / Lesbian Studies

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