Introduction: On queer diasporas and Puerto Rican migration histories -- The persecution of difference -- Autobiographical writing and shifting migrant experience -- Women's bodies, lesbian passions -- Visual happenings, queer imaginings -- Nuyorico and the utopias of the everyday
Summary
Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, he reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States