In the Intersection: Latine LGBT Lit

Next up in our intersectional rec posts is Latine lit! We’ve done our best to cover as much of Latin America as possible here, but once again, what we can offer depends very much on what we can find and, as such, you’ll see pretty clearly where the gaps are. But. We hope you find something to enjoy on here! And there are plenty of links to search further (& if you speak Spanish, you’re in luck, we found some untranslated lit too!).

As before, we’re using flags to mark a country of origin (where possible) and a separate emoji (🏹) to mark if the author is a diaspora author.

And once again, briefly, some links to the series so far: Black, African & Caribbean lit, East Asian lit, West Asian lit, South Asian lit, Southeast Asian lit, Indigenous lit, religion in lit, and neurodiversity & disability in lit.

As ever, more links: this Mexican book, which remains untranslated (boo), Chicana/Latina lesbians, Latine YA books, 9 books to read before you die, this Venezuelan book, again untranslated, some untranslated Ecuadorian essays, Puerto Rican lit (not all LGBT, but some by nonbinary authors), this (translated into German and French) book of stories about Argentine trans women, more Latin American authors, and some poets!

The Relic Spell by Jimena I. Novaro (bi mc, nonbinary li) 🇦🇷
Don’t Date Rosa Santos by Nina Moreno (bi mc) 🇨🇺 🏹
Chulito by Charles Rice González (gay mc) 🇵🇷 🏹
Like a Love Song by Gabriela Martins (bi li, sapphic characters) 🇧🇷
The Mermaid’s Prophecy by Clara Alves (sapphic mcs) 🇧🇷

Between Bookshelves by Olivia Pilar (bi mc, bi li) 🇧🇷
The Little Death by Michael Nava (gay mc) 🇲🇽 🏹
Cantoras by Carolina de Robertis (sapphic mc) 🇺🇾
Fire With Fire by Destiny Soria (bi mc) 🇲🇽 🏹
A Tiny Piece of Something Greater by Jude Sierra (gay mc, gay li) 🇧🇷

Fiebre Tropical by Juli Delgado Lopera (bi mc) 🇨🇴
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (lesbian mc) 🇵🇷 🏹
Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa (gay mc) 🇲🇽 🏹
Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha, trans. by Larissa Helena (gay mcs) 🇧🇷
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (lesbian mc) 🇩🇴 🏹

Panic Signs by Cristina Peri Rossi (essays, poetry) 🇺🇾
One in Me I Never Loved by Carla Guelfenbein, trans. by Neil Davidson (sapphic mcs) 🇨🇱
My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel, trans. by Katherine Silver (gay characters) 🇨🇱
Sana Sana by Ariana Brown (poetry) 🇲🇽 🏹
Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins, trans. by Larissa Helena (gay mcs) 🇧🇷

A Safe Place With You by César Baquerizo, trans. by unknown (gay mcs) 🇪🇨
Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, trans. by Dolores M. Koch (memoir) 🇨🇺
Our Caribbean ed. by Thomas Glave (essays) 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇨🇺 🇭🇹 🇸🇷
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig, trans. by Thomas Colchie (gay mc) 🇦🇷
Frigid Tales by Pedro de Jesús, trans. by Dick Cluster (gay, lesbian & bi mcs) 🇨🇺

Sexographies by Gabrielle Weiner, trans. by Jennifer Adcock & Lucy Greaves (essays) 🇵🇪
Las Biuty Queens by Iván Monalisa Ojeda, trans. by Hannah Kauders (trans mcs) 🇨🇱
Catrachos by Roy G. Guzmán (poetry) 🇭🇳 🏹
The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, trans. by Fiona Mackintosh & Iona Macintyre (gnc sapphic mc) 🇦🇷
Hell Has No Limits by José Donoso, trans. by Suzanne Jill Levine (trans mc) 🇨🇱

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