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Louis Dorantes is a Brooklyn-based textile artist.

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Vena Cava is a Puerto Rican drag artist based in Brooklyn.

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Tokischa is a queer Dominican artist and sex worker, controversial for the highly explicit sexual content in her music and persona. The lyrics to Estilazo include:

Being a bitch is fashionable (ah-ah-ah, fashionable)
Ser perra está de moda (ah-ah-ah, de moda)

It's a national trend (ah)
Es tendencia nacional (ah)

Rogue catwalk
Pasarela de bellacas

Sexual style
Estilazo sexual

Morbo is the new drug
Morbo es la nueva droga

Note of morbidity (ah, ah)
Nota de morbosidad (ah, ah)

Lesbianism between women
Lesbianismo entre mujeres

Long gay life
Larga vida homosexual

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Marshmello, Tokischa - ESTILAZO (Official Video)

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Out Late: Here’s what it was like to throw Whorechata’s sold-out anniversary party

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The Pride Month party centers queer and trans people of color.

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Salsa music often addresses painful narratives, both fictional and factual. Willie Colon, one of the most famous salsa singers in history, recorded this song in 1986 about a transgender person name Símon who is rejected by his community and family for his queerness and dies of a mysterious illness (presumed to be AIDS).

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Ray Navarro (1964–1990) was an artist, filmmaker and activist. He attended Cal Arts in California and moved to New York in 1988 to go to the Whitney Independent Study Program, and soon joined ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power). He was also a member of DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists), a video-documenting affinity group of ACT UP. DIVA TV documented public testimony, the media, and community activism to motivate the fight against AIDS. Navarro died of AIDS related complications at the age of 36.

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For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presented COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS. This hour-long video program will be distributed internationally to museums, art institutions, schools and AIDS organizations.

From video diaries to civil disobedience, holiday specials and backstage antics, Betamax to YouTube, COMPULSIVE PRACTICE displays a diversity of artistic approaches, experiences, and expectations. The compulsive video practices of these artists serve many purposes—cure, treatment, outlet, lament, documentation, communication—and have many tones—obsessive, driven, poetic, neurotic, celebratory. COMPULSIVE PRACTICE demonstrates the place of technology, self-expression, critique, and community in the many decades and the many experiences of artists and activists living with AIDS.

COMPULSIVE PRACTICE is curated by Jean Carlomusto, Alexandra Juhasz, and Hugh Ryan. Participating video makers and artists include  James Wentzy, Nelson Sullivan (1948–1989), Ray Navarro (1964–1990), Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot, Juanita Mohammed, Luna Luis Ortiz, Mark S. King, Justin B. Terry-Smith, and the Southern AIDS Living Quilt.

For more information, see https://www.visualaids.org/projects/detail/compulsive-practice

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Rita Indiana is a Dominican writer, musician, and visual artist whose work blends speculative fiction with themes of Caribbean identity, queer experience, and Afro-diasporic culture. Her work explores disidentification by challenging traditional gender norms and embracing fluidity, offering new narratives for queer Latinx identity within the socio-political context of the Caribbean.

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Rita Indiana - La Hora de Volvé (Vídeo Oficial)

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a large-scale public artwork and a symbol of remembrance for individuals who died from AIDS-related causes. Created in 1987 by activist Cleve Jones and the NAMES Project Foundation, the quilt is composed of thousands of fabric panels, each made to commemorate someone who lost their life to AIDS. Families, friends, and communities crafted these panels, often personalized with names, photographs, and personal items, making the quilt an intimate and collective tribute.

Each panel is 3x6 feet, the size of a standard grave. As of 2024, the quilt spans over 50,000 individual panels commemorating over 100,000 people. It has been displayed across the United States and globally, raising awareness about the AIDS crisis, reducing stigma, and offering a space for collective mourning.

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Our work helps ensure that the lives of people who died from AIDS are not forgotten and the story of AIDS is known by future generations -
so that never again will a community be harmed because of fear, silence, discrimination, or stigma.

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Our work helps ensure that the lives of people who died from AIDS are not forgotten and the story of AIDS is known by future generations -so that never again will a community be harmed because of fear, silence, discrimination, or stigma.

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Jillian Hernandez writes about the aesthetics of excess, or the over-the-top, glamorous cultural signifiers used by Black and Hispanic women, and how this aesthetic represents sexual freedom and autonomy.

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Aesthetics of Excess: The Art of Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment by Jillian Hernandez - E3W Review of Books

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Jillian Hernandez Aesthetics of Excess: The Art of Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment Duke University Press, 2020 320 pages $27.95 Reviewed by Jackie Pedota In Aesthetics of Excess: The Art of Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment, Jillian Hernández … Aesthetics of Excess: The Art of Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment by Jillian Hernandez Read More »

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Chiquitita is a Brooklyn-based community organizer and drag performer who is known for orchestrating celebratory events focused around Brooklyn's queer nightlife community. Recently she made headlines for protesting the speech of Ross Mathews' at a GLAAD fundraiser due to GLAAD's economic ties to Israeli companies.

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RuPaul's Drag Race judge and comedian Ross Mathews' opening monologue at Saturday's GLAAD Media Awards was disrupted by drag artists in a pro-Palestinian protest at the New York City event.

After she and ACT UP organizer Ariel Friedlander led a protest against Israel's military action in Palestine outside the Hilton hotel venue in Manhattan, Brooklyn-based trans advocate, drag artist, and actress Chiquitita tells Entertainment Weekly she took the demonstration inside, where she was captured on camera shouting, " GLAAD is complicit in genocide" when Mathews took the stage to begin hosting the ceremony.

Chiquitita says the larger outdoor protest began with 150 people (including And Just Like That and Grey's Anatomy star Sara Ramirez) at around 5 p.m. local time, and lasted roughly an hour before an ACT UP member informed her that the organization had secured two wristbands for entry into the event. That's when Chiquitita and fellow performer DiDi Opulence entered the show, near the first half of the ceremony.

"I'm scoping the space as if I'm looking for my seat. The video that's playing on the screen is talking about how drag performers have always been at the forefront of the fight, progress, and change. Then the video cuts, everyone claps. Ross Mathews gets on the mic and says maybe a word, and I started chanting," Chiquitita recalls, noting that DiDi was escorted out by security before guards could get to her. "I walked right to the center front, directly in front of Ross, and stood there and kept chanting until the security guards came from left and right to meet me center stage."

Mathews can be heard saying, "Oh, honey," in footage from the event (above), but Chiquitita says he made a statement after DiDi stopped filming.

Says Chiquitita, "Ross said something like, 'Well, this is America, and we're all about free speech.' People started clapping, and I started clapping and pointed to Ross, thinking, 'Yes, he gets it.' I kept walking down the aisle as I was being escorted out."

She says that she felt Mathews' words were "extremely condescending," though: "He was saying like, 'Well, I guess we have to let everyone have an opinion.' He did say the right thing, but he didn't have the right intention. It was more like, 'This person has an opinion and we're supposed to listen to it.'"

Chiquitita adds that security then took her and DiDi outside the venue, but not before a man from the GLAAD organization - formed as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation - confronted her and attempted to tell her why the protest was misguided.

But Chiquitita suggests that the group's celebration during a time of growing bloodshed in Palestine goes against what ACT UP (which stands for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and was formed amid the AIDS crisis in the 1980s) stands for. "I don't believe in neutrality, and I don't think queer people are granted the privilege of neutrality ever, in any situation, in any country," she says.

Following the event, Ramirez commented on a post on Chiquitita's Instagram, praising her for "disrupting the space inside" and for keeping the protest group "fired up for sure."

Ariel tells EW why the demonstration was important to her, noting that LGBTQIA+ members of the community are also suffering in the region.

"So often, queer and trans Palestinians are erased from the narrative," Ariel says. "As the biggest LGBTQ media organization in the United States, GLAAD has a duty to represent our queer and trans Palestinian siblings and to stand in solidarity with them by calling for a permanent and immediate ceasefire, by denouncing genocide, and by dropping their partnership with the ADL [Anti-Defamation League]."

She continues, "I loudly, boldly, and proudly stand up as ACT UP New York for justice and liberation for Palestinians. We will make our queer and trans Palestinian friends heard, and we will continue to fight until they are free."

During ACT UP's Saturday protest, the group also welcomed queer Palestinian artists and activists to speak, as well as health-care workers who'd been on the ground in Egypt aiding refugees from Gaza. The demonstration also included ACT UP members draping a 40-foot-long banner from the 42nd story of the hotel that read "NY LOVES GAZA."

"As a Queer Palestinian, it goes without question to me that there's no such thing as queer liberation without the liberation of Palestine," said Noor Aldayeh, an artist and writer, at the rally, according to an ACT UP press release. "We fight for Palestine in honor of our queer history and ancestors, for those queer Palestinian siblings of ours living in Palestine, and for all those generations to come. This violent, unjust oppression - apartheid, bombs, weapons, mass destruction, disabling and displacement of indigenous humans - does not discriminate. Queer Palestinians are just as much a part of our community as any other. As such, we must advocate for the end of this genocide and apartheid, from the river to the sea."

In response to the protest, a GLAAD spokesperson tells EW, "GLAAD does not support genocide, but does support free speech."

A representative for Mathews did not immediately respond to EW's request for comment.

In the months following the Hamas terror group's Oct. 7 attack on it, Israel has mounted its own attack on Gaza, leading to the deaths of more than 30,000 Palestinian people in the area, reports The New York Times. Since then, pro-ceasefire protests have erupted at many major media events, including at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Film Independent Spirit Awards, and the Oscars.

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Drag artists interrupted Ross Mathews' GLAAD Media Awards speech with a pro-Palestine protest: 'I don't believe in neutrality,' Chiquitita tells EW.

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This article features a list of LGBT Latinx musicians for further analysis and exploration.

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Music

Art by Alan Lopez for Remezcla

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Rubby

Growing up in New York with a name that most people assumed was female or feminine, Rubby endured the kind of bullying he eventually thought best to channel into his art. Named after merenguero Rubby Pérez, the Washington Heights native has kept us on the edge of our seat since last year's breathless breakout single "Know Me." Rubby took his storytelling to a whole new level with his follow-up, "Confiesa," tapping into super relatable territory by detailing the "are they?/aren't they?" sexual tension queers often have to navigate when flirting in non-queer spaces.

2

Manitas Nerviosas

Meeting at the intersection of spooky and danceable we have Manitas Nerviosas, the eerie atmospheric project of musician and illustrator Mou. Whether she's on keys, guitar, or drums, you can expect a Manitas Nerviosas show to be visceral and unsettling. Before announcing her transition and relocating to Mexico City earlier this year, the Monterrey native was best known for her time in influential psych bands Bam Bam and Animación Suspendida. But don't expect her to perform her old tunes any time soon. Manitas Nerviosas dropped two EPs last year and is currently working on new music that will haunt your dreams.

3

Linn da Quebrada

Trans Brazilian MC Linn Da Quebrada made a splash last year with her viral hit "Bixa Preta," a club anthem detailing the perils of being black, poor, and femme in her native Brazil. She has since released an extraordinary visual album named Pajubá that continued the conversation and featured guest vocals by Liniker Barros and Mulher Pepita. She also headlined the Tración stage at Festival Ceremonia back in April, and while in Mexico City, hit the studio with the NAAFI crew to work on new music. The future is bright and we guarantee Linn da Quebrada will be its soundtrack.

4

Entrópica

Chile's queen of androgyny has been on our radar for quite some time thanks to her art-house take on glittery synth pop. Her most recent album Adentro featured a provocative, sexually suggestive cover and songs heavily inspired by futurism and 80s new wave idols like Annie Lennox and Soft Cell, landing her a coveted spot in SXSW's 2018 lineup. Back home, Entrópica regularly embraces her queer peers in songs that pull her from electronic introspection and cast her considerable talents back onto the dance floor. Notable examples include " Casino," featuring (Me Llamo) Sebastián and "Celi" with Namuel.

5

Francisco Victoria

22-year-old newcomer Francisco Victoria is being hailed as the next big star out of Chile's beloved indie scene. "Marinos" and "Todo lo Que Tengo," the lead singles from his Alex Anwandter-produced debut album Prenda, reveal a young musician at odds with his conservative upbringing, one of the many reasons he relocated from Chile's southern Araucanía region to Santiago. Though heavily associated with Anwandter's staggering oeuvre, references to queer literary icon Pedro Lemebel and Bronski Beat's Jimmy Summerville have helped Francisco Victoria consolidate a point of view deserving of its own spotlight and narrative.

6

Ms. Boogie

This ferocious Brooklyn native is known for her raps, fierce fashion, and the years she spent cutting her teeth in New York's extremely competitive ballroom scene. Her excellent 2017 EP, Jesus Loves Me Too, was an intersection between self-acceptance and clap backs for the haters, showcasing her acrobatic flow in standout tracks like "Malandrina." Most recently, the Dominican-Colombian rapper opened up about her transition in a candid open letter published by PAPER Magazine. As she poignantly writes, "Just like you, my life matters, I have insecurities, I have debt and I have a heart."

7

Sailorfag

YouTube star, transgressive rapper, and emerging fashion icon, Sailorfag is the name on everyone's lips. The 22-year-old gender nonconforming rapper from Guadalajara has been making waves for about a year with a series of viral music videos for underground tracks like "Polo Acartonada" and "Inventadas y Modernas." Their massive following has lead to shows across Mexico, opening for RuPaul's Drag Race superstar Adore Delano in Mexico City, and recent bookings at LA Pride and the LA Queer Biennale. Pro Tip: Follow their Instagram for fierce and hysterical updates on make-up, as well as trials and tribulations at fashion school.

8

Macha Kiddo

Macha Kiddo is a Costa Rican rapper that has no time for your shit, and her fierce bars make that crystal clear. The San José artist has been hard at work in local underground circles for years, regularly collaborating with influential singer-songwriter Javier Arce and queer performance collective Haus of Weisas. Earlier this year she released " Jony (La Romi) " a song and video addressing the uptick in homophobic and transphobic rhetoric brought on by Costa Rica's recent presidential elections. It's a musical one-two punch that garnered her international attention.

9

Nitty Scott

Brooklyn rapper Nitty Scott can tell you a thing or two about labels and the harm they cause. Her most recent album Creature! commented on the complex nature of her identity by incorporating the different backgrounds and traditions that have shaped her as a unique person and artist. As she shared with Remezcla in an interview, "I'm owning and discussing the experience of being Afro-Boricua, woman, bisexual, then bruja." Tributes to womanhood and her Puerto Rican roots in songs like "PXSSY POWAH!" and "La Diaspora" have established Nitty Scott as one of the Afro-Latina heroines of our time.

10

Pabllo Vittar

Pabllo Vittar is the biggest drag queen in the world. Period. Her debut album Vai Passar Mal featured guest vocals from some of Brazil's top queer musicians, including rapper Rico Dalasam and Banda UÓ's Mateus Carrilho. However, as we've begun to see from a growing number of drag artists, Pabllo Vittar's music and talent live beyond the makeup and heels. Her powerhouse voice and undeniable star quality launched her to international fame through highly publicized collaborations with Diplo and Charli XCX, cementing her place as one of Brazil's biggest pop stars.

11

Hurray for the Riff Raff

Alynda Segarra, the mastermind behind folk-rock outfit Hurray for the Riff Raff, has long been an advocate for gender equality and social justice in Puerto Rico. The band's latest album, The Navigator, was a conceptual exploration of identity filled with meditations on womanhood, her Boricua roots and the island's complex colonial history. In the early days of the band, Hurray for the Riff Raff was labeled as a queer act for its inclusion of members such as Segarra, who is bisexual, and trans fiddler Yosi Perlstein. The band has steadily outgrown the label while doubling down on their commitment to activism.

12

LaBaq

LaBaq is a Brazilian singer-songwriter telling stories of love and heartbreak in whatever language she can express herself best. Her lyrics bounce between English, Spanish, and Portuguese, but it's her virtuous guitar skills that feel like a true mother tongue. LaBaq has been on tour all year, playing dozens of shows across the U.S., South America and Europe, with new music expected to drop before the end of 2018. She is also one of the co-founders of Sonora Fest, a festival highlighting women artists and business professionals in the music industry, which has now held editions in 75 cities worldwide.

13

Solomon Ray

The neo-perreo movement has brought much-needed visibility of women and queers to underground reggaeton parties, but we can all agree the mainstream still lacks platforms and acceptance for either. Enter gay Mexican-American reggaetonero Solomon Ray. The first taste of his sorrowful vocals came back in December with catchy heartbreak anthem "El Otro." Most recently, Solomon Ray gave us "Así Así," an R&B-tinged summer bop produced by Nicky Jam and Maluma collaborator Daneon that established his polished and aggressive bid to take over the pop-reggaeton charts.

14

Niña Dioz

Los Angeles-based rapper Niña Dioz did not come here to play. The Mexican artist, originally from Monterrey, has been cutting her teeth in underground circles for years and her new album Reyna - a play on her birth name Carla Reyna - documents her struggles coming up in the scene as well as the long journey to reclaiming her confidence and power. Recent single " Tambalea" features guest vocals from fellow reinas Lido Pimienta and Ceci Bastida, tackling discrimination based on race, gender, and sexual orientation one powerful bar at a time.

15

Bruno Toro

Bruno Toro is part of the perpetual wave of Latin American artists relocating to Mexico City in search of fame and fortune. The Colombian singer showcased his musical versatility in 2016's La Costa, a full-length debut that embraced pop rock, synth pop, and disco for a wildly kaleidoscopic production. Toro has an affinity for camp and drama, as he showcases on tracks like "La Costa" and "1990," which highlight his love of combining synthesizers, acoustic guitars and sticky sweet choruses.

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15 Queer and Trans Latinx Musicians You Should Know

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Get to know the queer and trans Latinx artists making their mark in music.

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Guaracha, brought into the mainstream by Puerto Rican artist Farruko's single "Papas," is a techno-tribal style that emerged in the queer club scene of Mexico City.

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On the heels of Farruko’s megahit “Pepas,” Guaracha is taking center stage in the Latin space. Get to know the Colombian electronic subgenre beyond the blaring horns.

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Visual AIDS is a community organization dedicated to recording the artistic contributions by people with HIV and AIDS. The website includes artist biographies, exhibitions, essays, and more.

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Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

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This essay outlines the process and impact of the multi-artist AIDS memorial in the primarily Mexican and working class Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.

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Radical Remembrance: A Latinx AIDS Monument in Los Angeles - The Latinx Project at NYU

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The Wall Las Memorias AIDS monument, the first publicly funded AIDS monument in the nation, contains the names of more than 360 people who have died from AIDS, including the names of many Latinos from the surrounding neighborhood of Lincoln Heights.

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Muñoz has written extensively about the performance work of Carmelita Tropicana. He writes that Carmelita's style is not fixed, but rather that she is a "cultural production herself, always appearing in character, def[ying] notions of a fixed subjectivity. Her queer and cubana body is unstable and fragmented; it registers on its surface the intermingling of the identity bits that make up her performances and persona, because she appears and participates in various forms of media theater, more experimental performances) always within character, undermining notions of authenticity and realness in favor of queer self-making practices." (p. 139)

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The lyrics of "A Quien Le Importa" focus on someone who is judged by their community for being different despite their lack of concern for what people say and think about them. Originally recorded by the Madrid-based band Alaska y Dinarama, Mexican singer Thalia's cover embraces the queer interpretation of the song. In the music video, Thalia is dressed in early-aughts alternative clothing and performs in a gay club.

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Estilazo, curated by queer Dominican Dulcina Abreu, focuses on the memorabilia and continued community-building of the Latinx queer nightlife scene in New York City. The show featured works by Angel Añasco, drag performer Chiquitita, and flyers/posters/clothing from the popular Latinx LGBT party Papi Juice.

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The Latinx Project at NYU — Estilazo, curated by Dulcina Abreu

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Estilazo highlights the works of Latinx artists: Angel Añazco, Juan Arango Palacios, Chiquitita, Louis Dorantes, Oscar Nñ and Oscar 1992. They collectively narrate the stories of interconnected creative circuits in Latinx Club Culture, exploring avenues for self-expression, entrepreneurship, activism, and reclaiming space for queer collective joy. Each one of these artists are/were active participants/organizers of parties such as GHE20G0TH1K, 1992 The Party, Ragga NYC, Papi Juice, Angelito collective, Maricón NYC, and Chiquitita. These parties have been building a network of sanctuary spaces for their queer communities within the urban fabric of New York and its diasporas.

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Carlos Hernandez is a New York based queer Dominican photographer and curator, and my close friend. I recently included his Queer Alienism series in my Queer Continuum show at Brooklyn Art Haus. The series focuses on embracing gender and sexual difference, and he is largely inspired by Muñoz's theory of disidentification, seen most clearly in his renditions of the Last Supper and the traditional Mexican depiction of the Virgen de Guadalupe in bright, colorful, sexually charged settings.

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"While at any given moment the work can be subsumed by a singular perspective, Gonzalez-Torres’s work speaks to a complex identity politics that resists simplistic categorizations. This exhibition explores how the work informs context and how the contexts and localities of Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean can be seen to inform the work. Gonzalez-Torres’ use of language is subtle, and his care in the construction of titles means that they are deliberately multivalent, their meaning changing when viewed from different geo-political perspectives or moments in time."

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Politics of Relation - Announcements - e-flux

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Politics of Relation situates Gonzalez-Torres’ work within postcolonial discourse and the connected histories between Spain and the Americas, especially as these impact present-day questions around memory, authority, freedom and national identity.

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Portrait of Ross in L.A. (1991) by Félix González-Torres is one of his most well-known and emotionally resonant works. It consists of a pile of brightly colored, individually wrapped candies, weighing exactly 175 pounds—representing the ideal body weight of González-Torres’s partner, Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS-related complications in 1991.

Visitors are encouraged to take a piece of candy, which slowly diminishes the pile, symbolizing the physical deterioration of a person suffering from AIDS. As the pile shrinks, the work reflects the gradual loss and wasting of the body. However, the work can also be replenished by museum staff, allowing it to be continually restored to its original weight, symbolizing ideas of memory, love, regeneration, and continuity.

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Chavela Vargas was a Mexican lesbian folkloric singer with a career spanning from 1950 until her death in 2012 (with a hiatus between the 1970s and 1990s). While she didn't label herself publicly as a lesbian until she was 80, she sang traditional ranchera love songs written by men without changing the pronouns, and had affairs with numerous Hollywood actresses and members of the Mexican cultural elite. She's rumored to have slept with Frida Kahlo, for example, and Ava Gardner. She took 20 years away from singing due to her severe alcoholism and subsequent recovery, returning to the stage with the support of gay Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.

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Cherríe Moraga is a Mexican-American lesbian feminist author who is most well-known for her book Loving in the War Years.

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Cherríe Moraga: "You're Not Really Mexican, Are You?"

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This is a Spanish-language informative video about HIV and AIDS. Hispanic and Black Americans have had disproportionally higher rates of HIV contraction and AIDS deaths since the virus was first discovered in the late 1980s.

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Breve IntroducciÃ³n al VIH y SIDA:Lo que usted necesita saber : AIDSvideos.org : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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El VIH / SIDA puede afectar gravemente su vida e incluso causarle la muerte. Si sigue las instrucciones de este vÃ­deo, puede reducir o eliminar el riesgo de…

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The Fales Library at NYU is significant for having an extensive collection of queer films, magazines, posters, art, and other ephemera. They have a collection of papers and files relating to the life and scholarship of Jose Muñoz.

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in 9 manuscript boxes, 3 folders in a shared oversize flat box, and born digital physical carriers stored in 2 shared media boxes

Materials are in English.

José Muñoz (1967-2013) was a writer, scholar, and professor focused on performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. The José Muñoz Papers contain digital and paper files, and audiovisual material related to Muñoz's life and career as professor and chair of the Department of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts during the 2000s-2010s. This collection contains NYU course-related files; resumes and biographical sketches; writing drafts and published articles; research/source files and recordings; conference and lecture panel planning material; photographs; college ephemera; and correspondence.

José Esteban Muñoz (1967-2013) was a Cuban American academic in the fields of performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. He received both his undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College (1989) and his doctorate from Duke University (1994) in comparative literature.

Muñoz was a professor and chair of the Department of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and wrote extensively on visual art and aesthetics. He was also the editor of the journals Social Text and Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory.

Muñoz's writing focused on the role of race within gay and lesbian studies as expressed in his first book Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999). A decade later, his second book Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (2009) was published.

Organized in two series:

Series I. Professional

Series II. Personal

The files within each series are arranged chronologically, with materials grouped by subject and arranged chronologically within.

Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please request materials at least two business days prior to your research visit to coordinate access.

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on .

Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Language: Finding aid written in English.

In November 2016, some of the materials were rehoused in acid-free folders and reboxed into record cartons. Rolled items were condensed and rehoused.

In 2023-2024, paper material was placed in acid-free folders and manuscript boxes. Oversized material was foldered and housed appropriately according to its size. The majority of the physical audiovisual material were identified as commercial recordings and were separated from the collection. The retained audiovisual material was numbered, labeled, and listed individually within their appropriate series inventory. One optical disc was retained in the collection as an ephemeral object. A file title containing harmfully derogatory language regarding Latino/a/x peoples was identified, but was retained to convey important contextual information regarding time and place in which the document and title was created.

Born-digital carriers containing data were forensically imaged, analyzed, and arranged in Forensic Toolkit. The born-digital audio and video recordings were arranged separately in directories on locally-mounted networked storage and intellectually integrated into appropriate series.

New York University Libraries follow professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the content.

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José Muñoz Papers: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids

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José Muñoz (1967-2013) was a writer, scholar, and professor focused on performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. The José Muñoz Papers contain digital and paper files, and audiovisual material related to Muñoz's life and career as professor and chair of the Department of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts during the 2000s-2010s.

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The Archivo de la Memoria Trans (Trans Memory Archive) is an activist archival project based in Argentina that preserves and documents the history, experiences, and cultural memory of the transgender community in Latin America. It collects photographs, personal documents, letters, and other materials that trace the lives of trans people, often focusing on those who have been marginalized or erased from mainstream historical narratives.

The archive plays a crucial role in preserving the collective memory of the trans community, especially during periods of social repression and violence, such as Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976–1983). Many trans people faced extreme discrimination, exclusion, and persecution, and their histories were often erased or hidden. The Archivo de la Memoria Trans seeks to restore these voices and create a space for trans histories and identities to be recognized, remembered, and valued.

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El Archivo de la Memoria Trans (AMT) es una colección organizada en series sobre:
InfanciaActivismoExilioCorrespondencia (Cartas y Postales)CarnavalFiestasCumpleañosTrabajo sexualVida cotidianaShowRetrato hecho por fotógrafxMi CuerpoTrabajos, Profesiones y Oficios

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Whorechata is a party geared towards queer people of color in New York City, and started out at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic by Ian Kumamoto. Usually hosted every 2 months at popular venues like Nowadays, Elsewhere, and Market Hotel, the parties feature drag performances, mariachis, and are themed around Latinx culture.

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Papi Juice, hosted at Elsewhere, is a monthly to bi-monthly party for black and trans queer people. The party features 4 separate rooms with different DJs in each.

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Adam R: Partying with Papi Juice: BK Stories

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Chiquitita is a Brooklyn-born and based drag performer, community organizer, and visual artist. She's organized many events dedicated to uplifting the queer and trans community of New York, and gained recent attention for disrupting a GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) event to raise awareness to the human rights struggle in Palestine.

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Here is how native New Yorker Chiquitita is using drag to celebrate Latinx and Hispanic culture

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Young Miko is an openly gay Puerto Rican rapper that frequently samples classic reggaeton songs by male artists. She uses the same sexual themes in her lyrics as male artists, focusing specifically on her relationships with women (indicated by the gendering of nouns and adjectives in Spanish).

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Young Miko: offline ft. Feid | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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This 2019 documentary focuses on the migration story and everyday life of transgender artist and sex worker Iván Monalisa 16 years after originally migrating from Chile to New York to study playwriting. he film explores themes of self-exile and urban life.

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PRAGDA | Raising the voice of LATIN cinema

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The Journey of Monalisa - Trailer with English Subtitles

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Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is a Florida-based Puerto Rican artist, and her YouTube series "Ask Chuleta" parodies the chusma stereotype in addressing the state of the art world and what is considered highbrow culture. Chusma or chusmería is a Spanish derogatory term used to describe women who are loud, boisterous, and perceived as having poor manners.

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Feel like you're in Babel when listening to art babble? Chuleta cuts to the quick in Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz's series of contemporary art discourse videos, ASK CHULETA: CONTEMPORARY ART, on view at Jersey City Museum January 15, 2009 April 26, 2009. Video courtesy of the artist. For more information, please visit us at www.jerseycitymuseum.org.

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Curated by Latinx performance artist and writer Nicolás Dumit Estévez, indecencia embodies Muñoz's principle of disidentification and explores the colonial, theological, and sexual meanings of indecency within Marcella Althaus-Reid's call to "lift the skirts of God."

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INDECENCIA brings together a cohort of queer/rare* artists from Latin America and/or of Latin American descent and living in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean or in-between spaces/identities, whose praxes center on performance art and ephemeral actions. From the perspective of several generations, countries, and sociopolitical contexts, these artists invite us to consider Latinidad/Latinxidad and its relationship to religion, enfleshment, and sexuality. Their inquiries extend—through videos, props, scripts, costumes, and other channels—to the disjointed corpus of an entire hemisphere where, for many, the colonized and the colonizer can easily wrestle within a single body.

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José Esteban Muñoz introduced the concept of disidentifications in his 1999 book Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. It refers to a survival strategy employed by marginalized individuals, particularly queer people of color, to navigate dominant cultural norms and ideologies. Rather than fully assimilating into the mainstream or entirely rejecting it, disidentification involves a tactical engagement with dominant narratives, reworking them in ways that resist and subvert their exclusionary or oppressive frameworks.

Muñoz describes disidentification as a third mode of dealing with the dominant culture—neither fully accepting nor wholly rejecting it, but instead transforming and reinterpreting it from within. This process allows marginalized subjects to assert their identities, agency, and political presence in ways that challenge hegemonic structures, while still occupying and negotiating with them. Disidentification, therefore, is both a performative and political act that questions and queers dominant ideologies.

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There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial an…

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HomoVISIONES, first broadcasted in 1994, was New York's first and only public access TV program dedicated to documenting LGBT Latino life in the 5 boroughs. Most of the programming was in Spanish, and the show centered on community events (such as Latin American day parades) as well as activist demonstrations. Recordings of the show can be viewed digitally on the Internet Archive or physically at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.

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Walter Mercado was a Puerto Rican astrologer that, despite never having come out as LGBT, became a symbol of queer expression through his mystical persona on television.

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Horóscopo 21 de Noviembre por Walter Mercado