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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood.

I'm your host, Daniel M. Lavery, and with me in the studio 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 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,

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