![]() He focuses on Latinos in the United States and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Edgar takes us through puzzling teenage relationships, difficult family ties, and tackling the somewhat unrealistic expectations. Get instant access to all your favorite books. High-Risk Homosexual is a humorous and emotive memoir of Gomez's coming of age into his identity: gay, femme, and Latinx, which comes with a lot of hoops to jump through between culture clashes and self-discovery. ![]() Cadava is a historian of the United States and Latin America. High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir audiobook written by Edgar Gomez. Born in Florida but with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico, Gomez received an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. The New York Times called High-Risk Homosexual “a breath of fresh air.” The book is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography an Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and Publishers Weekly. We talk about machismo, cockfighting, reconciling with parents, the Pulse nightclub shooting, bilingualism in contemporary literature, and the “messiness” of latinidad. ![]() The conversation with Gomez was one of our most wide-ranging, flowing, and honest yet. ![]() Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad.įor this episode, we caught up with Edgar Gomez on his memoir High-Risk Homosexual (Soft Skull, 2022). ![]()
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