![]() ![]() Like the story of Roberto Flores Rodriguez, a Cuban immigrant in the 1950s who was deported. "The story we understand to be immigration history - people who are LGBTQ are often left out of that story."Ĭapó shares stories that are often not known or forgotten. "I put the story of queer LGBTQ people from Latin America and Caribbean descent at the center of that story," he said. The University of Southern California hosted Capo's presentation on these converging topics dating back to 1890. "I'm a gay man and I'm Latino and so these were kind of questions that were personal for me in a lot of key ways," Capó said. The Miami-native is now a transnational historian, and much of research is at the intersection of immigration, race, gender, and sexual orientation. ![]()
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