Gay sons of immigrants talk about the weight they carry in 'Brown and Gay in LA'

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🗓️ 11 October 2022

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In Brown and Gay in LA, author Anthony Christian Ocampo interviews more than 60 gay sons of immigrant families about the fears that come with living as gay men. He discusses with A Martinez the complex relationships they have with their parents — the respect they have for their parents as immigrants, but also the pain they carry from coming out to them.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Empire's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Okay, so growing up, whenever I did
0:07.8	something, I don't know, kind of stupid, but in the grand scheme of the universe, kind of trivial,
0:13.7	my parents would always throw the, oh, you don't understand what it took for us to get to this
0:18.1	country, you know, thing at me. Like, okay, mom, I'm sorry I was
0:21.6	playing PlayStation on a weekday, oh my bad. But I can only imagine what that guilt is like,
0:27.5	when it's compounded by your folks not accepting who you are. Today's interview is with
0:32.0	Anthony Christian Ocampo, author of the book Brown and Gay in L.A., The Lives of Immigrant Sons.
0:37.8	Forre, Ocampo talks to dozens of gay sons of immigrants, and he told NPR's A. Martinez about
0:43.3	the heaviness that these guys felt and the guilt they shared about forever altering their
0:48.6	parents' dreams for this country.
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1:31.2	After the mass shooting at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida in 2016, Anthony
1:36.3	Christian Ocampo well understood that the lives of the LGBTQ community remained under
1:41.5	threat. Looking for a connection as a gay man himself, he decided to interview the gay sons of
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