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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Visit megaphone.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Support our show by becoming a premium member! He focuses on Latinos in the United States and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Cadava is a historian of the United States and Latin America. Born in Florida but with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico, Gomez received an MFA from the University of California, Riverside.

Readers follow Gomez through the queer spaces where he learned to love being gay and Latinx, including Pulse. 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. A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man, High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: Edgar Gomez’s uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at thirteen years old to become a man. We talk about machismo, cockfighting, reconciling with parents, the Pulse nightclub shooting, bilingualism in contemporary literature, and the “messiness” of latinidad. An engagingly candid memoir from a promising young writer. The conversation with Gomez was one of our most wide-ranging, flowing, and honest yet. Poignant, vivid, and often hilarious, this coming-of-age memoir fearlessly explores intersectional identity and shows what it means to live and love authentically as a gay man today.

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).

High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez