Brown und gay in la
Telling the Untold Stories of Immigrant Sons: 'Brown and Gay in L.A.'.
Sociology Professor Anthony Ocampo is that favorite cousin with whom you share your secrets because he&#;s been in your shoes, veiling his own mysteries until he came out at &#;As a queer person of color, ambient terror wasn&#;t an entirely new feeling,&#; he writes in the preface of &#;Brown and Gay in L.A.: The Lives of Immigrant Sons.&#;
Now available in paperback from New York University Squeeze, &#;Brown and Gay in L.A.&#; has been commended as a masterful ethnography. Ocampo forgoes formulaic academic writing, using storytelling to investigate the culturally complicated and largely unstudied coming-of-age and coming-out stories of Filipino and Latino Angelenos.
Ocampo studies immigration, gender and sexuality and Latino-Asian individuality. For this book, he interviewed dozens of second-generation American Gen-Xers and millennials with roots in the Philippines, Mexico and Latin America. Their narratives grab center stage &#; family estrangements and fragile reconciliations, academic achievement as a survival strategy, enduring racism and homophobia, love and dating, and finding belonging and exclusion in t
Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
Co-Winner of the Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association
Honorable Mention, Leading Book Award, given by the Asia and Asian America section of the American Sociological Association
The stories of second-generation immigrant male lover men coming of age in Los Angeles
Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not own felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and noted. Instead, the men profiled here maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, gay sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced. For these men, the road to sexual freedom often involves chasing the dreams while resisting the expectations of their immigrant parents—and finding community in each other.
Ocampo also details his own story of reconciling his queer Filipino American identity and those of men like him. He shows what it was like for these young men to increase up gay in an immigrant family, to be the one gay person in their school and ethnic community, and to be a person of color i
In this episode, Dr. Anthony Christian Ocampo takes us both inside and beyond his new book, Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons (NYU Press, ), to speak about the craft of writing nonfiction, the importance of writing communities and fellowships, and about putting your writing out into the world.
Today’s book is: Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons, by Anthony Christian Ocampo. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA maneuver through family and friendship circles where masculinity dominates, same-sex attracted sexuality is unspoken, and heterosexuality is strictly enforced. Dr. Ocampo details his story of reconciling his queer Filipino American individuality and those of men like him. He shows what it was prefer to grow up homosexual in an immigrant family, to be the one gay person in their school and ethnic people, and to be a person of color in predominantly White gay spaces. Brown and Gay in LA is an homage to second-generation gay men and their radical redefinition of what it means to be gay, to be a man, to be a person of color, and, ultimately, what it means to be an Ameri
Brian De Los Santos
Just a quick heads up. This episode contains some sturdy language and depictions of trauma. If you're listening with kids, you might want to sit this one out. (Music plays.) Welcome back to How to LA. I'm your host with the most Brian De Los Angeles. Today, we're going to try something a small bit different. I hope for to talk to you guys about my comrade Anthony Ocampo. Anthony is a big voice for queer people of tint in LA. He's a child of immigrants. And that resonated with me because I'm queer. I'm Brown. And I'm undocumented. When I found out that he was writing a book, I yearn to learn more. The book is titled "Brown and Gay in LA." Sounds kind of appreciate someone-I'm talking about myself. We went to encounter up with him in Eagle Rock.
Brian De Los Santos
This is Anthony's childhood home where he's actually hanging out today with his boyfriend Joe and their dog Schmidt.
Anthony Ocampo
I lived in this home since I was six years old. They moved here in '87 when housing in Eagle Rock was actually affordable.
Brian De Los Santos
The house is a cute single story home. Garden, flowers, trees-there is a big
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