Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries

Authors

Luis Aponte Pares, University of Massachusetts - BostonFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

Abstract

In this essay, I posit that to fully grasp the degree to which Latinos have latinized New York City's landscapes, the role Latino queers play in this process merits examination. Latino queers have begun to challenge queer institutions. They also aim to be coproducers of a queer imaginary and appropriate places of queer culture, thus Latinizing queer culture. They also claim a role in the coproduction of a Latino imaginary. By adding sexual orientation to this identity, queers indeed "queer," mariconear, decenter heteronormative Latino culture, perhaps producing a new "conception of 'identity,' which lives with and through, not despite, difference," but "by hybridity."

Comments

This article was published as Chapter 13 in

Aponte-Parés, L. (2001). Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries. Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York. Laó-Montes and A. Dávila. New York, Columbia University Press: 363-385.

Recommended Citation

Aponte-Parés, L. (2001). Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries. Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York. Laó-Montes and A. Dávila. New York, Columbia University Press: 363-385.