Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora

摘要

Queer Ricans argues that 'sexuality is a key factor shaping and defining Puerto Rican migration to the United States' (p. ix), a factor as relevant as other socio-economic ones that have been privileged in the study of Puerto Rican migration by a nationalist, sexist or heterosexist academic establishment. La Fountain-Stokes illustrates, in five chapters, 'how attitudes toward stigmatized forms of same-sex sexuality and gender variance provoke and affect migration, and how artists, writers, filmmakers, dancers, choreographers, and performers have documented and discussed this fact' (p. ix).