Gay, Latino and Macho. Pressured onto a college coach since time came to a finish on a Thursday in 2005, Josue is terrified and uncertain just what potential kept for him and his companions.
The battle to be queer and in a machismo society
Facts by Albert Serna Jr. and Adolfo Tigerino
Chaperons through the tight Latino Pentecostal church got away all ways of correspondence so they really had been practically taken out of community. Reaching a ranch in the center of nowhere under the cover of darkness, the adolescents happened to be pushed into different places. Each day they certainly were built to pray and denounce their particular sexuality. It actually was thought that the teenagers have demons controlling all of them. And, before he was allowed to feel “cured,” the frightened 17-year-old occured straight down against their might while a few everyone screamed in attempts to consult the alleged demons within.
For Josue Velasquez, today 26, the notion of being gay and Latino would not sit well together with spiritual mama. She upheld a regular of manliness called machismo that conflicted because of the people Velasquez is actually. Into the Latino lifestyle there can be a belief that boys have to be hyper-masculine, domineering, regulating, and minus the smallest sign of womanliness. Read more