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How One Mexican Gay Woman Found Home in a Phoenix Nightclub

By Dulce Paloma Baltazar Pedraza
Oct 3, 2016

That first time at Karamba, the thing I noticed was the conversations. When you go from hearing your language everywhere, all the time, to only hearing snippets sporadically, a single word can almost feel like home. It transports you. “Güey, ¿me das una chela?” a guy asked the bartender near...
Como Una Mujer Mexicana Gay Encontró Su Segunda Casa en un Club Nocturno de Phoenix

By Dulce Paloma Baltazar Pedraza
Oct 3, 2016

To read this essay in English, click here. Aquella primera vez en Karamba, lo que noté fueron las conversaciones. Cuando pasas de escuchar tu idioma en todas partes, todo el tiempo, a solamente oír frases de manera esporádica, una sola palabra puede sentirse casi como estar en casa. Te transporta. ...
Latter-Gay Saints: The Mormon Church Now Welcomes Homosexuals -- Sort Of

By Dulce Paloma Baltazar Pedraza
Jul 23, 2014

On a sunny Saturday morning in April, more than two dozen men, women, and children march up Central Avenue, on the final stretch of the Pride parade. The pro-gay march has taken place in Phoenix every year since 1981, but it's the first time this particular group has joined the...
Suzy Homewrecker Is Taking the Phoenix Fetish Scene Mainstream

By Dulce Paloma Baltazar Pedraza
Jun 12, 2014

On an unseasonably cool evening in late May, a woman hanging by a hook embedded in the flesh on her back is elevated several feet in the air, onstage at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe. She is holding a marionette control in each hand, and below her, the strings are...
Suzy Homewrecker Is Taking the Phoenix Fetish Scene Mainstream

By Dulce Paloma Baltazar Pedraza
Jun 11, 2014

On an unseasonably cool evening in late May, a woman hanging by a hook embedded in the flesh on her back is elevated several feet in the air, onstage at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe. She is holding a marionette control in each hand, and below her, the strings are...

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