Table of Contents

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

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Essays exploring the lives and cultural contributions of gay Latino men in the United States, while also analyzing the political and theoretical stakes of gay Latino studies

About the Author

Michael Hames-García is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.

Ernesto Javier Martínez is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.

Reviews

"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 volume as a whole reads like a sparkling conversation full of wit, insight, cultural relevance and political critique. Covering a wide range of 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." Ramon Saldivar, author of The Borderlands of Culture: Americo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary