Edgar Gomez is proud to be a “High-Risk Homosexual”
A post shared by @otroedgargomezWriting a memoir that countless readers say is impossible to put down is a pretty strong indicator that a writer has succeeded in what they set out to accomplish.
For it to be described as a “breath of fresh air” by the New York Times is an even bigger indication.Edgar Gomez’s powerful new memoir “High-Risk Homosexual”, released in January of this year, not only achieved those things, but it also resonated with the experiences of many queer or trans Latinx/a/o folks… including the journalist writing this profile.My book is out today.
All week I’ve thought about what I could possibly say to show how grateful I am that I got to write about Nicaragua, and Pulse, and drag, and growing up as a quiet queer kid in Orlando who thought if I told anyone who I was I would die.
Anyway: thank you. ?? pic.twitter.com/ZZGewrv4oq— Edgar Gomez (@otroedgargomez) January 11, 2022Born in Florida with both Nicaraguan and Puerto Rican roots, Gomez struggled to find his voice in a machismo-enforced environment that so often erases the validity of queer and trans identities.“I’ve always found the definition of machismo to be ironic, considering that pride is a word almost unanimously associated with queer people, the enemy of machistas,” Gomez writes his website.At age 13, Gomez was sent to his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua.
