Abstract
In the years I have spent studying Chicana/o and Latina/o cultural production, I have been intrigued by how much our cultural texts have a tendency to veer from social, sexual, and cultural norms. I find such texts to be imbued with an array of characters and situations that are ultimately queer with respect to family constructs, gender roles, sexuality, aesthetics, and other issues related to identity.
I have never been all straight.
Everyone has their curveballs.
Chita Rivera1
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Notes
As quoted by Michael Musto in his “La Dolce Musto” column of The Village Voice, June 8, 2004.
Alexander Doty, Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon (New York: Routledge, 2000), 8.
David William Foster, El ambiente nuestro: Chicano/Latino Homoerotic Writing (Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2006), 7.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993), xii.
Alexander Doty, Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 12 (italics mine).
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Books: 1987), 79.
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Pérez, D.E. (2009). Introduction. In: Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture. The Future of Minority Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101685_1
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