What emerges is a nuanced perspective on this particular kind of coming-of-age: coming out, perhaps leaving home for college, finding new families in public and private spaces. “ Brown and Gay in L.A.” takes on the intersection of the immigration experience and queer life in Los Angeles - a first-person account that expands to take in the stories of dozens of gay men he’s interviewed across a scene he’s navigated for the better part of the last decade.

His second book, out this month, takes those complications in a new direction. Census even as they share a colonial history with Latino Americans as well as some of the same neighborhoods, including Eagle Rock. Ocampo’s first book, “ The Latinos of Asia,” complicated the incomplete narrative of a community that must check off “Asian” in the U.S. When I first heard sociologist Anthony Christian Ocampo talk on The Times’ podcast “Asian Enough,” I was moved by the specificity with which he talked about growing up Filipino American in the neighborhood of Eagle Rock and how it shaped his understanding of his heritage and queerness. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons

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