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Episode: Celebrating the lives of immigrant sons
Description: Today we talk to author Anthony Ocampo about his book BROWN AND GAY IN LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons. The book focuses on the sons of ânewâ immigrants who arrived in the United States after the passage of the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, BROWN AND GAY IN LA offers intimate and sometimes heartbreaking portraits of young menâFranklin, Armando, Rolando, Alvin, James, Dario, Edwin, Julio, and othersâwho struggle with the tensions between making their parents proud and their own sense of pride, with being viewed as normal by their family and becoming their own person.Â
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