The documentary "Paris Is Burning" obscured the ordinary lives of queer people of color, but new footage reveals how the film could have been different.
Marcos Gonsalez
Marcos Gonsalez is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. His book of autotheory about growing up a queer child of an undocumented Mexican immigrant and a poor Puerto Rican mother in white America, Pedro’s Theory, is forthcoming from Melville House. His essays can be found or are forthcoming at Avidly, LitHub, the New Inquiry, Inside Higher Education, the Chronicle Review, and ASAP/Journal, among others. 