6/20/2023 0 Comments High risk homosexual a memoir![]() ![]() ![]() If you love Samantha Irby, then High-Risk Homosexual is your next read! It’s thoughtful while still making you LOL.” Yet he also writes about the joy at the intersections and ultimately this memoir is a celebration of what it means to be gay and Latinx. Gomez dissects the gender dynamics within Latinx families, speaks with honesty and vulnerability about queerness, and what it means to flip those power structures that seem difficult to break. “This memoir is hilarious! But it is also a poignant and searing examination of machismo culture in the Latinx community. “ High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez has my heart,” said Malonzo. Michelle Malonzo of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Arizona, served on the panel that selected Gomez’s book for Indies Introduce. His memoir, High-Risk Homosexual, was named a Best LGBTQ Book by Harper’s Bazaar. His words have appeared in Poets & Writers, Narratively, Catapult, Lithub, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Plus Magazine, and elsewhere online and in print. A graduate of University of California, Riverside’s MFA program, he is a recipient of the 2019 Marcia McQuern Award for nonfiction. ![]() Edgar Gomez is the author of High-Risk Homosexual, a Winter/Spring 2022 Indies Introduce adult selection and January 2022 Indie Next List pick.Įdgar Gomez (he/she/they) is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. ![]()
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