Compañeros
Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS
Book - 2011
Telling the affecting stories of eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists and volunteers living in Chicago and San Francisco, Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS closely details how these individuals have been touched or transformed by the AIDS epidemic. Weaving together activists' responses to oppression and stigma, their encounters with AIDS, and their experiences as GBTs and Latinos in North America and Latin America, Jesus Ramirez-Valles explores the intersection of civic involvement with ethnic and sexual identity. Even as activists battle multiple sources of oppression, they are able to restore their sense of family connection and self-esteem through the creation of an alternative space in which community members find value in their relationships with one another. In demonstrating the transformative effects of a nurturing community environment for GBT Latinos affected by the AIDS epidemic, Ramirez-Valles illustrates that members find support in one another, as compañeros, in their struggles with homophobia, gender discrimination, racism, poverty, and forced migration.
Publisher:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011
ISBN:
9780252036446
0252036441
9780252078217
0252078217
0252036441
9780252078217
0252078217
Call Number:
362.1969 R1459c
Characteristics:
x, 179 p. ; 23 cm



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Tells the stories of gay, transgender, and bisexual activists in San Francisco and Chicago, whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS.
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