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My Deep Dark Pain is Love: A Collection of Latin American Gay Fiction

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I read this book many years a go and had been looking for it.I'm so glad to have found it again.Here americans can learn about authors that are not well know in the U.S. and what they saw and felt in their countries ie.oppression,hate,love,fear and joy.One of my favorite writers besides Reinaldo Arenas is De Andrade a brazilian author(gay) with a magnificent way of expressing the love for his fellow men and for a counrty in turmoil.One of his quotes is inscribed in a friends tombstone and it goes something like this"And the late night revelers and the drunken people passed us by say nothing".I recommend this book for not only gay people but for all americans to learn more about Latin Americans but to learn tolerence and understanding of what it is to be different yet the same.

I read this anthology years ago. Although I am Latino, I grew up in New York City so my experience of Latin American gay life was very limited. This anthology opened my eyes to what gay life was in the other America. The stories are sometimes quite different from the gay scene that Northerners are used to. It also introduced to several of the major great gay Latino writers whose exposure was almost non-existent here in the States especially for those of us who had few existing ties to the the other America. It's a great anthology which shows in anyways the large cultural differences between the Northern and Southern hemispheres. It also highlights the work of great Latino writers like Reinaldo Arenas, Mario de Andrade and Manuel Puig. But the more things change, the more they remain the same. I recommend this as a great anthology, both of really good and sometimes great gay and Latin American writers.

Text is a basic source for students of Latin America or LGBT. The book brings together various writers to highlight LGBT history in Latin America. Wide spectrum of literary work from gay authors in Brasil, Cuba, Mexico. English translations are first rate. This book should be on the shelf of any serious student of Brasil, Latin America or LGBT. Mark Piper, Instructor, History of Mexico. CCSF Ocean Campus