Horacio Roque Ramírez

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Horacio Roque Ramírez
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Born(1969-11-15)November 15, 1969
Santa Ana, El Salvador
DiedDecember 25, 2015(2015-12-25) (aged 46)
Los Angeles, California
NationalitySalvadoran American
Academic background
Alma materUCLA (BA, MA)
UC Berkeley (PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineChicana/o studies
Sub-disciplineOral history, LGBT history
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (November 15, 1969 – December 25, 2015)[1] was a Salvadoran American oral historian, writer and advocate whose work focused on LGBT Latino communities and the Central American experience in the United States. He was a faculty member in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2]

Early life[]

Roque Ramírez was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador. Fleeing the Salvadoran Civil War, he immigrated to Los Angeles at age 12, in 1981.[3] He earned a B.A. in psychology and M.A. in history at UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.[4] He came out as a gay man in 1992.[5]

Research[]

Roque Ramírez began his oral history work with San Francisco's queer Latina/o community, centered in the Mission District, as a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in the 1990s,[5] working with activists and organizations including Diane Felix and Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida, and documenting predecessor organizations such as the Gay Latino Alliance.[6]

At the time of his death he was working on the book Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s. He also served as an expert witness on political asylum and immigration.[4]

Publications[]

  • Alamilla Boyd, Nan, and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez. Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012.

References[]

  1. ^ "The Bay Area Reporter Online - Horacio N. Roque Ramírez". Ebar.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  2. ^ "Professor Horacio Roque Ramírez - Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies - UC Santa Barbara". Chicst.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  3. ^ "Vigil Held To Honor Professors Otis Madison and Horacio Roque-Ramirez". Dailynexus.com. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "OHA Remembers Horacio Roque Ramirez". Oralhistory.org. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (2002). "My Community, My History, My Practice" (PDF). The Oral History Review. Oxford University Press. 29 (2): 87–91. doi:10.1525/ohr.2002.29.2.87.
  6. ^ Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (April 2003). ""That's My Place!": Negotiating Racial, Sexual, and Gender Politics in San Francisco's Gay Latino Alliance, 1975-1983" (PDF). Journal of the History of Sexuality. University of Texas Press. 12 (2): 224–258. doi:10.1353/sex.2003.0078. S2CID 201778927.
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