Coming of Queer Age in Puerto Rico: The Curse of Memory, Third Edition

Now in its third edition, COMING OF QUEER AGE IN PUERTO RICO: The Curse of Memory. The author chronicles the first seventeen years of his life in a small town in Puerto Rico and adds a postscript to update what has become of him since then. Joseph F. Delgado further examines how in Puerto Rico, as in most of Latin America, inflexible, ambivalent, hypocritical, religion-based conventions prevail in the debate on LGTBQ+ rights and political participation, despite claims by LGBTQ+ in the Hispanic world. “The ethnography of harassment. I do not believe there is a book like this in Puerto Rico… This is an important book, or rather a book that matters.” Efraín Barradas, 80grados.“He tells it like it is. For anyone driven into the Latino gay diaspora, this is a painful read… Delgado exposes the dark side of Puerto Rico’s hetero-normative culture with fierce bitterness as he identifies himself with that horribly negative experience… An autobiography different from all others.” –Alfredo Villanueva.