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]
Horacio Roque Ramírez | |
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| Born | November 15, 1969 |
| Died | December 25, 2015 (aged 46) |
| Nationality | Salvadoran American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | UCLA (BA, MA) UC Berkeley (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Chicana/o studies |
| Sub-discipline | Oral history, LGBT history |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
Early life edit
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 edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
- ^ "The Bay Area Reporter Online - Horacio N. Roque Ramírez". Ebar.com. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Professor Horacio Roque Ramírez - Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies - UC Santa Barbara". Chicst.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Vigil Held To Honor Professors Otis Madison and Horacio Roque-Ramirez". Dailynexus.com. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ a b "OHA Remembers Horacio Roque Ramirez". Oralhistory.org. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ a b Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (2002). "My Community, My History, My Practice" (PDF). The Oral History Review. 29 (2). Oxford University Press: 87–91. doi:10.1525/ohr.2002.29.2.87. S2CID 217473541.
- ^ 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. 12 (2). University of Texas Press: 224–258. doi:10.1353/sex.2003.0078. S2CID 201778927.