Larry La Fountain-Stokes, Puerto Rican poet and performer who will participate in tonight's "Diasporican" Cafe at UAlbany, speaks in San Juan at a TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference about the persecution of people for their sexuality, and the profound effect this has on international migration (emigration and immigration).
View his talk on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoyjL23Bwhc
Books by La Fountain-Stokes include the scholarly work,
Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora (2009), and the bilingual fiction collection,
Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails (2009).
