From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction
by Charles Rice-Gonzalez
Price: $9.99 USD. 79580 words.
Published by Lethe Press on August 1, 2011. Fiction.
For the first time since 1999, when the ground-breaking anthologies Bésame Mucho and Virgins, Guerillas and Locas appeared, has a collection of gay Latino fiction in English been published. In From Macho to Mariposa, are stories from 29 gay Latino writers from around the United States. The stories are vibrantly varied and clearly connected in this “era of lost signals” in which we live.
Member Since: Aug. 01, 2011
Charles Rice-Gonzalez
Biography
Charles Rice-Gonzalez (co-editor)was born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College.
Charlie Vázquez (co-editor) is a radical Bronx-bred writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. His fiction, articles, and essays have been published in various anthologies, magazines and newspapers and he hosts a monthly reading series called HISPANIC PANIC! (in the East Village), which focuses on original queer Latino literature.
Charlie Vázquez (co-editor) is a radical Bronx-bred writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent. His fiction, articles, and essays have been published in various anthologies, magazines and newspapers and he hosts a monthly reading series called HISPANIC PANIC! (in the East Village), which focuses on original queer Latino literature.