Centro Journal 19, no. 1 (Spring 2007)

IN THIS ISSUE

Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities
Guest Editors: Luis Aponte-Parés, Jossianna Arroyo, Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Frances Negrón-Muntane

Puerto Rican Queer Sexualities: Introduction
Luis Aponte-Parés, Jossianna Arroyo, Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Setting them straight: Social services, youth, sexuality, and modernization in postwar (WWII) Puerto Rico
Isabel córdova Suárez

The oxymoron of sexual sovereignty: Some Puerto Rican literary reflections
Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé

Nationalism, states of exception, and Caribbean identities in Sirena Selena vestida de pena and “Loca la de la locura”
Radost Rangelova

Night becomes “Latina”: Mariana Romo-Carmona’s
Living at Night and the tactics of abjection
María DeGuzmán

Sylvia Rivera’s talk at LGMNY, June 2001
(Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, New York City)

“Still at the back of the bus”: Sylvia Rivera’s struggle
Jessi Gan

Eliding trans Latino/a queer experience in U.S. LGBT history: José Sarria and Sylvia Rivera reexamined
Tim Retzloff

“Poetry always demands all my ghosts”:
The haunted and haunting poetry of Rane Arroyo
Betsey A. Sandlin

René Marqués, Ángel Lozada and the constitution of the (queer) Puerto Rican national subject
Alfredo Villanueva-Collado

Queer ducks, Puerto Rican patos, and Jewish American feygelekh: Birds and the cultural representation of homosexuality
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Boricua lesbians: Sexuality, nationality, and the politics of passing
Lourdes Torres

¡Bien Gorgeous! The cultural work of Eduardo Alegría
Gilberto Moisés Blasini

‘Mira, yo soy Boricua y estoy aquí’: Rafa Negrón’s Pan Dulce and the queer sonic Latinaje of San Francisco
Horacio N. Roque Ramírez

A naked Puerto Rican faggot from America: An interview with Arthur Avilés
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Antonio Pantojas se abre el traje para que escuchemos el mar: una historia de vida transformista
Javier E. Laureano

Short Story. The ugly dyckling
Frances Negrón-Muntaner

A portfolio of photographs by Luis Carle

Chronicles for an intimate narrative: Aportfolio of the art of Mari de Pedro
Pan-Latinism: Out of many cultures, one people
Howard Jordan

Book Reviews