{"id":988,"date":"2023-06-21T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2023-10-11T14:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T18:01:26","slug":"what-were-reading-with-mar-blog-co-manager-gen-greer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/what-were-reading-with-mar-blog-co-manager-gen-greer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Reading, with MAR Blog Co-Editor Gen Greer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>High-Risk Homosexual<\/em> by Edgar Gomez. Penguin Random House, 2022. 304 pages. 17.95, paperback.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month I decided to revisit Edgar Gomez\u2019s memoir&nbsp;<em>High-Risk Homosexual<\/em> (2022).&nbsp;This was partly&nbsp;in honor of the book\u2019s recent Lambda win in the category of Gay Memoir \/ Biography and partly because I&#8217;m obsessed with chaotic queer books. Gomez\u2019s debut memoir tells his story of navigating life as a gay Latinx man from his Florida childhood, going to uncle\u2019s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, dancing in the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, and his move to California to pursue writing.&nbsp;One of the many things I admire about this book is the ways in which Gomez is able to capture both the agonies and ecstasies of queerness. Gomez\u2019s narrative doesn\u2019t avoid things just because they\u2019re messy or painful. We follow them through nights obsessing over Jennifer Lopez rom-coms, his investigation of language and cultural identity, and the discovery of their community. They also take us through the struggles of surviving homophobic family members while still loving them, their fear of HIV &amp; diagnosis of &#8220;high-risk homosexual,&#8221; and living with the echos of violence from the Pulse Nightclub shooting. If you&#8217;re looking for a brilliant queer memoir (you should be) that makes you want to laugh, cry, and possibly put on some coffee for a movie marathon this is the one for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013\u2013Gen Greer, <em>Mid-American Review<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez. Penguin Random House, 2022. 304 pages. 17.95, paperback.&nbsp; Earlier this month I decided to revisit&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[141,109,142,143,85,126,41,144],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-were-reading","tag-edgar-gomez","tag-gen-greer","tag-high-risk-homosexual","tag-lgbtq","tag-mar","tag-memoir","tag-mid-american-review","tag-penguin-random-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casit.bgsu.edu\/marblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}