This book was authored by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez **** and shepherded through to publication by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval and Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. following Horacio's passing with the blessing of sister, Nubia Roque. It represents the culmination of a decade's worth of oral history and archival research, an ethnographic historical study of the formation and partial destruction of queer Latina and Latino community life in San Francisco, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The book traces the lives and memories of sixty narrators as they worked to build what Latina/o/x scholars have referred to as cultural citizenship but also informed by writing on sexual citizenship and the body. Bridging oral history, LGBT history, and Latinx history, the book looks at how the sexuality of migrationthrough the lives of queer border crossersand informs what is assumed to be a national heterosexual U.S. history of the largest growing racial ethnic 'minority' in the country.

This book represents a decade's worth of oral history research on the queer Latina and Latino community in San Francisco Horacio N. Roque Ramírez was a rising star who passed away before he could see his mostly completed manuscript published Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. and Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval guided it to publication with the blessing of Horacio's sister

Autorentext

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez was Associate Professor in Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara, USA, and Affiliate Professor with the Departments of Feminist Studies, History, and Latin American and Iberian Studies.

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval is Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Faculty Director of the UCSB Community Labor Center, USA.

Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton, USA. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the TransLatina Coalition.

Klappentext

“We – young and old – need this work for the sheer courage of it; to recognize the freedom fighters who are our herencia.”

- Cherríe Moraga, author of Loving in the War Years and Other Writing: 1978-1999

“For Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, oral history was not simply a method. It was an obligation to the people who entrusted him with their stories, and that obligation shapes every page of Memories from Queer Latina and Latino San Francisco.”

- Lydia R. Otero, author of L.A. Interchanges: A Brown & Queer Archival Memoir

“I lived these historical moments and was cadre within these movements. I am heartened to finally see it in print even if I remain heartbroken at our immeasurable loss.”

Ricardo Bracho, Abrams Artist in Residence, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA

This book was authored by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez ****and shepherded through to publication by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval and Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. following Horacio’s passing with the blessing of sister, Nubia Roque. It represents the culmination of a decade's worth of oral history and archival research, an ethnographic historical study of the formation and partial destruction of queer Latina and Latino community life in San Francisco, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The book traces the lives and memories of sixty narrators as they worked to build what Latina/o/x scholars have referred to as cultural citizenship but also informed by writing on sexual citizenship and the body. Bridging oral history, LGBT history, and Latinx history, the book looks at how the sexuality of migration—through the lives of queer border crossers—and informs what is assumed to be a national heterosexual U.S. history of the largest growing racial ethnic 'minority' in the country.

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez was Associate Professor in Chicana and Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara, USA, and Affiliate Professor with the Departments of Feminist Studies, History, and Latin American and Iberian Studies.

Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval is Professor in the Department of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Faculty Director of the UCSB Community Labor Center, USA.

Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton, USA. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the TransLatina Coalition.

Zusammenfassung

This book was authored by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez **** and shepherded through to publication by Ralph Armbruster Sandoval and Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. following Horacio's passing with the blessing of sister, Nubia Roque. It represents the culmination of a decade's worth of oral history and archival research, an ethnographic historical study of the formation and partial destruction of queer Latina and Latino community life in San Francisco, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The book traces the lives and memories of sixty narrators as they worked to build what Latina/o/x scholars have referred to as cultural citizenship but also informed by writing on sexual citizenship and the body. Bridging oral history, LGBT history, and Latinx history, the book looks at how the sexuality of migrationthrough the lives of queer border crossersand informs what is assumed to be a national heterosexual U.S. history of the largest growing racial ethnic 'minority' in the country.

Inhalt

1. Editors Introduction by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval and Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr.- 2. Re-membering Queer Latina and Latino Desires.- 3. The Queer Homegrown: Negotiating Neighborhoods, Family, and Desire.- 4. The Migrants and the Sexiles: Queer Routes to San Francisco.- 5. Remembering a Movement: The Gay Latino Alliance, 1975-1983.- 6. La Dieciseis: A Queer Geography of a Gay Latino Bar, 1980s to 1990s.- 7. AIDS and Queer Latino and Latina Organizing: The Communities of Proyecto Contra SIDA, Mid 1990s to 2005.