High-Risk Homosexual Audiobook Libro.fm

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Ive always found the definition of machismo to be ironic considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people the enemy of machistas In particular effeminate queer men represent a simultaneous rejection and embrace of masculinity In a world desperate to erase us queer Latinx men must find ways to hold onto pride for survival but excessive male pride is often what we are battling both in ourselves and in others

A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay Latinx man HighRisk Homosexual opens in the ultimate antigay space Edgar Gomezs uncles cockfighting ring in Nicaragua where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man Listeners follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando a drag queen convention in Los Angeles and the doctors office where he was diagnosed a highrisk homosexual

With vulnerability humor and quickwitted insights into racial sexual familial and professional power dynamics Gomez shares a hardwon path to taking pride in the parts of himself he was taught to keep hidden His story is a scintillating beautiful reminder of the importance of leaving space for joy