7/4/2023 0 Comments High risk homosexual![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We chatted about self-interrogation, leaning into embarrassment, queer fantasies, survival, and acknowledging fear alongside the funny. It was a joy to speak with them over email. Gomez’s hilarious, tender, and wise voice shook me from the page. His memoir, High-Risk Homosexual, was called a “breath of fresh air” by The New York Times. A graduate of University of California, Riverside’s MFA program, his words have appeared in Poets & Writers, Narratively, Catapult, Lithub, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, and elsewhere online and in print. High-Risk Homosexual strikes back with a necessary counternarrative.Įdgar Gomez (he/she/they) is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. I knew I needed to hear Edgar’s voice-their wit and smarts-at a time when Budweiser and Oreo cookies want to commodify and simplify queer experience. One featured Edgar sashaying down the hall in a peacock-colored bodysuit, another chronicled Edgar’s journey from being kicked out of high school to debuting on The New York Times book list. I first learned about High-Risk Homosexual from Edgar Gomez’s tweets. ![]()
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