A co-editor and contributors to Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, edited by Lazaro Lima and Felice Picano (U. of Wisconsin, $22.95 pb).


As the U.S. Latino population grows rapidly, and as the LGBTQ Latino community becomes more visible and a more crucial part of our literary and artistic heritage, there is an increasing demand for literature that successfully highlights these diverse lives. Edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano, Ambientes is a revolutionary collection of fiction featuring stories by established authors as well as emerging voices that present a collective portrait of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience in America today.

With a preface by Picano and an introduction by Lima that sets the stage for understanding Latino literary and cultural history, this is the first anthology to cross cultural and regional borders by offering a wide variety of urban, rural, East Coast, West Coast, and Midwestern perspectives on Latina and Latino queers from different walks of life. Stories range from sensual pieces to comical romances and from inner-city dramas fueled by street language to portraits of gay domesticity, making this a much-needed collection for many different kinds of readers. The stories in this collection reflect a vibrant and creative community and redefine received notions of “gay” and “lesbian.”

Co sponsored by RaícesLatinoPride, Philadelphia's diverse first collective of LGBT Latinos movers and shakers!

EMANUEL XAVIER is author of the poetry collection, If Jesus Were Gay & other poems, and editor of Me No Habla With Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry. He was recently proclaimed an LGBT Icon by The Equality Forum for his many artistic and political contributions.  Photo credit: Fredric Nauczyciel

Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing (Paperback)

By Lazaro Lima, Felice Picano

$22.95

ISBN-13: 9780299282240
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Published: University of Wisconsin Press, 5/2011

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