Memories of Desire from Queer Latina and Latino San Francisco, 1960s-1990s

This book was authored by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez and shepherded through to publication by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval and Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr. following Horacio’s passing with the blessing of sister, Nubia Roque. It represents the culmination of a decade's worth of oral history and archival research, an ethnographic historical study of the formation and partial destruction of queer Latina and Latino community life in San Francisco, from the 1960s to the 1990s. The book traces the lives and memories of sixty narrators as they worked to build what Latina/o/x scholars have referred to as cultural citizenship but also informed by writing on sexual citizenship and the body. Bridging oral history, LGBT history, and Latinx history, the book looks at how the sexuality of migration—through the lives of queer border crossers—and informs what is assumed to be a national heterosexual U.S. history of the largest growing racial ethnic 'minority' in the country.