‘My Divo’ Podcast Explores Legacy of Beloved Mexican Singer and Queer Icon Juan Gabriel

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🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Juan Gabriel, one of Mexico’s most beloved composers and musicians, managed to achieve superstar status beginning in the 1970s and emerge as a queer icon at a time when homosexuality was taboo in Mexican society. In her new podcast, “My Divo” journalist Maria Garcia, creator of the popular “Anything for Selena” podcast, explores the legacy of Juan Gabriel and its connection to her own queer Mexican identity and family history. We’ll talk with Garcia about her podcast, uncovering a previously unknown chapter of JuanGa’s life and how his story helped her to come to terms with her own sexuality. Guests: Maria Garcia, executive editor, Futuro Studios; creator and host of the podcast series, “My Divo” about Mexican singer Juan Gabriel. She previously created and hosted the podcast "Anything for Selena." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.2	Juan Gabriel was one of Mexico's most beloved composers and musicians.
1:09.9	And he managed to achieve superstar status and emerge as a queer icon at a time when homosexuality was taboo in Mexican society.
1:12.6	In her new podcast, My Devo, journalist Maria Garcia explores the legacy of Juan Gabriel
1:19.6	and its connections to her own queer Mexican identity.
1:22.6	We'll talk with Garcia about who Wang Ga was, what she discovered about his life and the importance of queer trailblazers.
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