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Ramirez, Horacio Nelson Roque. "Communities of Desire: Queer Latina/Latino History and Memory, San Francisco Bay Area, 1960s-1990s," University of California, Berkeley, August 2001.
This dissertation investigates the formation of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual (queer) Latina/Latino communities in the San Francisco Bay Area from the 1960s to the 1990s. As a effort to document and analyze queer Latina/Latino community life in the region, the dissertation examines the coming together of women and men to shape political identity, to enjoy leisure time, to mark urban space, and to ensure survival. While the study considers same-sex socializing among queer Latinas and Latinos, it also pays close attention to multigender community formations: the joint socialization and organization of queer women and men of varying genders. An oral history community study, the dissertation involves conversations with forty narrators detailing their life, work, struggles, and playtime. The recorded conversations are part of a growing archive and record of queer Latina and Latino life in the Bay Area. The interviews were completed in 1995-2001 using snowball sampling methods with community members. The dissertation also makes use of the few archival sources available on queer Latinas and Latinos. Through the oral histories and secondary sources, the dissertation examines several chapters in queer Latina/Latino history: the process of arrival as queer (im)migrants or “sexiles” to the region; the process of growing up as queer residents; the formation of the Gay Latino Alliance (GALA) in 1975; the making of a gay Latino strip in San Francisco’s Mission District in the 1980s and 1990s; the work of a queer Latina/Latino HIV agency-Proyecto ContraSIDA Por Vida (PCPV), in the 1990s; and more recent queer Latino attempts for identity and visibility in cultures of consumption. The organizing framework for the dissertation’s historical narrative is the concept of cultural citizenship: the ability to claim space, identity, and rights in contexts of exclusion and domination.
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