3 - 5 p.m. PST
Join us for a book talk with author, Dr. Anthony Ocampo. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood, the gay sons of immigrants featured in Brown and Gay in LA could not have felt further removed from a world where queerness was accepted and celebrated. For these men, the path to freedom often involves chasing the dreams while resisting the expectations of their immigrant parents—and finding community in each other. Ocampo also details his own story of reconciling his queer Filipino American identity and those of men like him. He shows what it was like for these young men to grow up gay in an immigrant family, to be the one gay person in their school and ethnic community, and to be a person of color in predominantly White gay spaces. Brown and Gay in LA is an homage to second-generation gay men and their radical redefinition of what it means to be gay, to be a man, to be a person of color, and, ultimately, what it means to be an American. Co-sponsored by the Warrior Cross Cultural Center, The College of the Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Presidents Commission on Diversity & Inclusion, The Department of Sociology, Gerontology & Gender Studies, and the Ethnic Studies Program.
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