Juanito Xtravaganza, Keith Haring, and queer Latino testimonio
Subtitle: hard tails
By: by Arnaldo Cruz-Malave.
Series: New directions in Latino American cultures series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Subjects: Rivera, Juan, -- 1957-; Haring, Keith; Hispanic American gays -- Biography; Gay men -- United States -- Biography; Homosexuality, Male -- United States; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Listening speaks : an introduction; title: The life & times of Juanito Xtravaganza / as told by Juan Rivera and retold by Arnaldo Cruz-Malave. Fly, robin, fly. Just telling stories; title: . One of these days! Paradise. "I'm Juanito Xtravaganza" : an epilogue; title: A radiated radiant baby : Keith Haring & an aesthetics of identification. Beginning with the end. Art is life. An energy called hip-hop. Clones go home! A radiated radiant baby. A love interlude : the paradise garage. Pop and the limits of universalism : Shibuya, Japan; title: Listening speaks : testimonio, queer Latino representation, and shame; title: What's in a name. The places: bathhouses, Coney Island. East Rock, New Haven. El Barrio/East Harlem. Loisaida, East Village, Times Square and the sex trade. The people: Florence Alexander, Yves and Debby Arman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Caroline of Monaco, Juan Dubose, John Gruen, Julia Gruen, David Hampton, Grace Jones, LA II, Larry Levan, Madonna, Kenny Scharf, Gil Vazquez. The terms: Arc, Cristal, dominant/passive, ecstasy, graffiti, Keith Haring Foundation, Page Six. Outlaw parties, spooking, timido (jibaro), wasting, Xtravaganza, the house of; title: Spanglish glosses.