Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e)
authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing
conversation about the meanings of latinidad.

For this episode, we caught up with Edgar Gomez on his memoir High-Risk Homosexual
(Soft Skull, 2022). The conversation with Gomez was one of our
most wide-ranging, flowing, and honest yet. We talk about machismo, cockfighting, reconciling
with parents, the Pulse nightclub shooting, bilingualism in modern literature, and the
“messiness” of latinidad.

The New York Times called High-Risk Homosexual “a breath of fresh air.” The book is a finalist
for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography; an Honor Book for the 2023
Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award; and was named a Best Book
of the Year by BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and Publishers Weekly. Born in Florida but with
roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico, Gomez received an MFA from the University of
California, Riverside.