Freeway Dreams

“I KNEW I WAS QUEER the moment my consciousness had evolved enough to formulate thoughts,” Lydia R. Otero writes in the introduction to the memoir In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer. In this compelling examination, Otero draws upon decades of experience as a historian and associate professor of Mexican American […] The post Freeway Dreams appeared first on Los Angeles Review of Books. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Review of Books'

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