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Now in its second edition!COMING OF QUEER AGE IN PUERTO RICO: The Curse of Memory.The author chronicles the first seventeen years of his life in a small town in Puerto Rico. Joseph F. Delgado further examines how in Puerto Rico, as in most of Latin America, inflexible, ambivalent, hypocritical, religion-based conventions prevail in the debate on LGTBQ rights and political participation."The ethnography of harassment. I do not believe there is a book like this in Puerto Rico... This is an important book, or rather a book that matters." Efraín Barradas, 80grados."He tells it like it is. For anyone driven into the Latino gay diaspora, this is a painful read... Delgado exposes the dark side of Puerto Rico's hetero-normative culture with fierce bitterness as he identifies himself with that horribly negative experience... An autobiography different from all others." -Alfredo Villanueva, amazon.comA former professor of literature and linguistics, Joseph F. Delgado (Humacao, Puerto Rico, 1950) has written both fiction and non-fiction extensively in Spanish. His fiction in English includes Our Father Takes a Bride and the queer novella The Silence Barrier. His play Crushed at the Crossing or the Tyranny of Freedom was a finalist in the 2019 Downtown Urban Arts Festival.
COMING OF QUEER AGE IN PUERTO RICO: The Curse of Memory. The author chronicles the first seventten years of his life in a small town in Puerto Rico. Together with accounts of a childhood riddled with physical and verbal abuse Joseph F. Delgado analyzes the social macho-centric context in Latin America that makes it acceptable for men young and mature to have sex with boys without developing a homosexual identity and objectify passive sexual partners for contempt and ridicule. The author further examines how in Puerto Rico inflexible, religion-based conventions prevail in the debate on LGTBQ rights and political participation.
The three stories in his collection address the existential perils of living a lie by hiding from others the core of our being or lack a sense of loyalty and commitment. One involves a transvestite who evinces a tendency toward self-hatred, a man who takes advantage of others and aspires to belong to a social state that eludes him, and a New Yorker who lives in a double closet of his own making.
Javi Toro overcomes social and financial hurdles to achieve noteworthy intellectual and professional accomplishments with the unfailing support of a loving partner. His pursuit of a better life takes him from an island in the Caribbean to the northeastern United States and, finally, the American west coast. Despite all his accomplishments, something always seems to prevent his arrival at a safe port.The Tango of the Shipwreck is a deeply moving tale of joyous love and sorrowful loss, the extended version of an intense tango that yearns for happiness as it mourns its absence.A novel by the author of the novel The Silence Barrier and the autobiographical Coming of Queer Age in Puerto Rico: The Curse of Memory, as well as the gay short-story collection Living in the Raw Wind.
In this often humorous novella by the author of Coming of Queer Age in Puerto Rico, neither Alberto nor Mart�n can find a way to fulfill their desire for each other. They instead play a cat-and-mouse game within the confines of a macho-driven society where men can be campy and insinuate same-sex desire as long as it is done in apparent jest. Will their wishes remain just that, or will they eventualkly cross the boundaries that separate them, leading to long-denied love?
In this comedy full of references to current LGBTQ issues, six mature gay men meet on three separate occasions in the Edmund White Cultural Center to plan social events at their gay retirement community, Rainbow Estates. Hostilies arise unexpectedly while members bring up not just their past experiences but also their participation in incidents in gay history. At the end they find out that their idol, the deceased former chairman of their group whose undying presence is the thread that unites them in their endeavors, led a much different life from the one they all took for granted.
Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times).
Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Anthology Winner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle Awards A Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021 A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire African American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing. Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall's classic Words of Fire, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century. Using “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, Mouths of Rain includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, Mouths of Rain addresses pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out,” and the erotic. Contributors include: Barbara Smith Beverly Smith Bettina Love Dionne Brand Cheryl Clarke Cathy J. Cohen Angelina Weld Grimke Alexis Pauline Gumbs Audre Lorde Dawn Lundy Martin Pauli Murray Michelle Parkerson Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Alice Walker Jewelle Gomez
Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.” Plus don't miss The First to Die at the End: #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera returns to the universe of international phenomenon They Both Die at the End in this prequel. New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Cast’s fateful calls.