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My relationship with my father was great until I turned 12 and started forming my own beliefs about the world around me.
My opinions were often different than his, and that’s when our disagreements began. In his romantic moments, he’d say it was because we were too similar: strong nature, opinionated, talkative, and we stand up for ourselves. Except things weren’t so good when I stood up to him.
After my parents split when I was 9, I often told my dad, a macho Latino immigrant, that I didn’t like his disrespectful comments about my mom or his objectifying commentary about women we’d pass while driving or walking down the road. Instead of acknowledging what I was saying, he’d get defensive and shrug me off by saying, “I’m not talking to you.” And then there was his favorite, “You’re so sensitive.”
Sensitive or not, I wanted respect.
Growing up in the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area, I sensed the way my dad talked to me wasn’t the norm among my peers. I was aware that things he said in front of my younger brother and me weren’t considered appropriate by others, but regardless of what I said, he never acknowledged that he was in the wrong. His parenting
If you’re looking for a Latino French New Wave-inspired clip about queer male persona, Daniel Armando‘s Daddy’s Boy is sure to be right up your alley. This dreamy black-and-white collage of vignettes follows a group of men that, as its synopsis suggests, “leave boyhood behind and shed more than just their clothes and inhibitions.”Armando’s men are sensitive and assertive, wear heels and cowboy hats, display tenderness and energy in equal measure. Exploring father-son relationships within the world of New York City hustlers, porn stars, and the like, Daddy’s Boy is a steamy meditation on gay male sexuality. In one of it most indelible scenes, for example, we see a bearded male dancer (James Koroni) rehearsing shirtless in heels, lovingly exhibiting and admiring his movements in the mirrors around him, forcing us to ogle and lust after his body.
As Armando told Remezcla when the film was still making the festival rounds a few years ago, he enjoyed making these bodies available in all their beauty while never wanting the suggestive nudity to be just for show. “Whenever things are very sexual, they’
This film powerfully tackles homophobia from a Latino dad's point of view.
When it comes to intergenerational conflict, you never hear too much about Gen Z having a hard time with Generation X or the silent generation having beef with the baby boomers. However, there seems to be some problem where baby boomers and millennials just can’t get on the same page.
Maybe it’s because millennials were raised during the technological revolution and have to help their boomer parents log into Netflix, while the grandparents get frustrated when their adult children don't realize how to do basic homemaking and maintenance tasks. There’s also a political divide: Millennials are a reliable liberal voting bloc, whereas boomers are the target demographic for Fox News. Both generations also have differing views on parenting, with boomers favoring an authoritative style over the millennials' gentler approach, which leads to a ton of conflict within families.
A Redditor recently asked Xennials, older millennials, and younger Gen Xers born between 1977 and 1983 to share some quirks of their boomer parents, and they created a fun list of habits that can be both Luis Torres was 25 years old and married with two sons when he came out to his wife. A decade later, his son David came out as well. Luis is 51 now and David is 32. The father and son, who have a close association, sat down in David’s living room in Philadelphia to talk about what society expects of men, what it was appreciate coming out and their experiences as gay Latino men. Luis and David Torres were featured in The Gran Varones project. The Gran Varones, whose label is inspired by the 1980’s Willie Colon anthem about the relationship between a gay son and his machista father, was founded by Louis Ortiz Fonseca, an Afro-Boricua who felt there was an overly narrow media portrayal of what it means to be a Latino gay man. Ortiz Fonseca’s project of videos, photos and stories can be found at thegranvarones.com. Featured image by Erika Beras .