Stonewall’s Parallel Queer Latinidad
Panel Name
Identity Politics in the Workplace and in the Courts of the Land and Public Opinion
Location
Lecture Centre Concourse
Start Date
3-5-2019 3:00 PM
End Date
3-5-2019 5:00 PM
Presentation Type
Poster Session
Academic Major
Communication, Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies
Abstract
This research project investigates how identity intersections were regarded during the U.S. gay rights movement, specifically during the period following the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, through the lens of being queer and Latino/a/x. It explores the lack of attention to the intersection of queer Latinidad during the Stonewall Era and seeks to understand how it wrongly simplifies a collection of individual queer experiences to a sole version, or The Queer Experience. In other words, it is argued that the disregarded racial and ethnic overlap of queer people led to the oppression of queer black and brown individuals, Latinx in this context, being inaccurately equated with that of queer white individuals, using queerness common umbrella. The argument is based on the idea that the specific experiences of those belonging to one minority group should not be leveled to a single narrative due to the complexities of oppression that deepen when several factors are taken into account such as race, gender and class.
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Course assignment/project
Award
Presidential Award
First Faculty Advisor
Christine Vassallo-Oby
First Advisor Email
cvassallo-oby@albany.edu
First Advisor Department
Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies
The work you will be presenting can best be described as
Finished or mostly finished by conference date
Stonewall’s Parallel Queer Latinidad
Lecture Centre Concourse
This research project investigates how identity intersections were regarded during the U.S. gay rights movement, specifically during the period following the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City, through the lens of being queer and Latino/a/x. It explores the lack of attention to the intersection of queer Latinidad during the Stonewall Era and seeks to understand how it wrongly simplifies a collection of individual queer experiences to a sole version, or The Queer Experience. In other words, it is argued that the disregarded racial and ethnic overlap of queer people led to the oppression of queer black and brown individuals, Latinx in this context, being inaccurately equated with that of queer white individuals, using queerness common umbrella. The argument is based on the idea that the specific experiences of those belonging to one minority group should not be leveled to a single narrative due to the complexities of oppression that deepen when several factors are taken into account such as race, gender and class.