Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Description

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lawrence La
Fountain-Stokes (born 10 April 1968) is a gay Puerto Rican author,
scholar, and performer. He is better known as Larry La Fountain. He has
received several awards for his creative writing and scholarship as well
as for his work with Latino and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBT) students. He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan.La
Fountain-Stokes was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
specifically in Miramar, a traditional neighborhood located in the
central district of Santurce. He was adopted at birth by Donald and
Ramona La Fountain, and is the brother of the ESPN newscaster Michele La
Fountain. He has written about his childhood experiences in an essay
called „Los nenes con los nenes y las nenas con las nenas“ , where he
describes his childhood home as bilingual and bicultural. His essay
„Queer Diasporas, Boricua Lives: A Meditation on Sexile“ also discusses
some of these early experiences.