This book was authored by Horacio Roque-Ramirez 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. Informed by LGBT historical scholarship and queer studies, oral history theory and methodology, and Latina and Latino scholarship on gender, sexuality, and community life, it documents and analyses a community of LGBT Latinas and Latinos heretofore unrecognized, a history undocumented in LGBT and Latino archives, and rarely remembered as part of either Latino or LGBT history. By examining both community and neighborhood in the public manifestations of queer Latino desires, 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. As such it is a book about San Francisco, but also from San Francisco about California, the U.S., Latinas and Latinos, and queer migrations into the nation.

Horatio Roque-Ramirez had considerable prominence within the oral history world There has been limited work done on queer Latino culture, and this would effectively be the first book in this area Though theoretically sophisticated, the book is grounded in fascinating and often moving accounts from LGBT Latinos

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Horacio Roque-Ramirez 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. He has been involved with local social justice organizations on California's Central Coast for over twenty-five years.

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.

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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.