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Photo by Monica Mendoza. Or how I thought every kid found things out: being told by a bully. It was basically my second home; people in the neighborhood had known me since I was a baby and watched me grow up. It was safe, it was a short distance, and I was responsible. Kids acted how they always did to me.

'There is a place for you in this world': Growing up as a gay Latino

This guy just walked up to him, stabbed them in the neck because he was gay. Oh, my God. This guy was killed in the train station. He was thrown in the tracks. He was gay. Which was still in my mind of him walking out my door. You're still supposed to be a boy.

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I would give myself that freedom I needed in those five minutes I was slamming, only to keep that vulnerable part of myself safe when it was over. With my close friends, I was getting out of my shell and letting that scared part of me out in some ways every chance I could.

The authors of the essays in this unique collection explore 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. In new essays and influential previously published pieces, Latino scholars based in American studies, ethnic studies, history, performance studies, and sociology consider gay Latino scholarly and cultural work in relation to mainstream gay, lesbian, and queer academic discourses and the broader field of Chicano and Latino studies.