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Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I'm your host, Daniel M. Lavery,

and with me in this video this week is Edgar Gomez, the author of the forthcoming memoir

High Risk Homosexual about coming of age as a queer Latinx person in a culture of machismo.

They live in Jackson Heights, Queens and Centurse Puerto Rico. Edgar, welcome to the show.

Hi, Danny. Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you so much for bearing with the absolutely unhinged number of like

distended cords that I pulled out trying to start recording on a new device today.

It didn't happen. I appreciate your bearing with me immensely.

And I'm so excited because I feel like this week we have some really good thorny

gay high-risk questions.

Oh my god, I know. I was like, I wonder what questions they're going to pick for me.

And like these really blew me away in like a good way. So I'm really excited.

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