Born in Florida but with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico, Gomez received an MFA from the University of California, Riverside. The New York Times called High-Risk Homosexual “a breath of fresh air.” The book is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography an Honor Book for the 2023 Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award and was named a Best Book of the Year by BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, and Publishers Weekly. We talk about machismo, cockfighting, reconciling with parents, the Pulse nightclub shooting, bilingualism in contemporary literature, and the “messiness” of latinidad. The conversation with Gomez was one of our most wide-ranging, flowing, and honest yet. BOMB's Oral History Project is dedicated to collecting, documenting, and preserving the stories of distinguished visual artists of the African Diaspora.Writing Latinos, from Public Books, is a new podcast featuring interviews with Latino (a/x/e) authors discussing their books and how their writing contributes to the ever-changing conversation about the meanings of latinidad.įor this episode, we caught up with Edgar Gomez on his memoir High-Risk Homosexual (Soft Skull, 2022). Through our free and searchable online archive-a virtual hub where a diverse cohort of artists and writers explore the creative process within a community of their peers and mentors. BOMB includes a quarterly print magazine, a daily online publication, and a digital archive of its previously published content from 1981 onward.Īnnually, BOMB serves 1.5 million online readers––44% of whom are under 30 years of age.
Today, BOMB is a nonprofit, multi-platform publishing house that creates, disseminates, and preserves artist-generated content from interviews to artists’ essays to new literature. BOMB’s founders-New York City artists and writers-decided to publish dialogues that reflected the way practitioners spoke about their work among themselves.
BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.
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