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IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

I never wanted to work from home. I like the hustle and bustle of New York City, and I enjoy the dynamics of an in-person workplace. March 13 was the day the world changed for me. Suddenly, I’m working for home.   All meetings are virtual ones. Now I really have to order internet service.   It was the end of the world as I knew it. The corona virus had taken over the world, and changed its name to Covid-19.   It was not sexier; it was just more terrifying. New York City becomes the epicenter of this plague.   Governor Cuomo and Mayor De Blasio tally the dead.   500 dead loved ones. 600 dead loved ones. 799 dead loved ones.   And, my niece an operating nurse in the biggest hospital in Queens, where all the sick go, where ice trucks are parked outside because the morgue is full and there are no more empty rooms or corridors to place the body bags. These are scary times.   BUT, our Medical Personnel are Super Heroes . T...

CELEBRATING GAY PRIDE WITH 20 LATINO BOOKS

The Latina Book Club celebrates Gay Pride with a magnificent list of books by Latino Authors. This year, Gay Pride is so much more precious given the recent slayings in Orlando.  So we celebrate with  anthologies, fiction, historicals, graphic novels, young adult novels and memoirs, etc., all in search of the Latino Queer identity.  Happy Reading! GAY PRIDE BOOKS A CUP OF WATER UNDER BY BED by Daisy Hernandez (Beacon Press) – coming of age memoir about a Colombian-Cuban woman. AMERICANO: GROWING UP GAY & LATINO IN THE USA, Poems by Emanuel Xavier (Rebel Satori Press) – poems that challenge sexual, political and religious beliefs. ANGEL PARK by Roberto F. Santiago (Tincture / Lethe Press) – poems that shout their LGBTQ identity. ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE by Benjamin Alire Saenz – two lonely boys share a special friendship. BOYFRIENDS WITH GIRLFRIENDS by Alex Sanchez (Simon & Schuster) –YAs search f...