2002 Lambda Literary Award Winner

Twenty-three Latino parents speak about their relationships with their lesbian and gay children, with frankness, humor, and love.

A Puerto Rican mother praises and supports her son, a respected police officer. An Argentinian mother attends Gay Pride with two lesbian daughters. An Honduran mother joins her twin daughters at gay youth events; one is a lesbian and the other is bisexual. The mother of a Mexican activist remembers her family's love for her son, who passed away after living with AIDS for ten years... Conversaciones is an extremely important book for all Latin American and Spanish-speaking communities. With stories by twelve sons and daughters and an afterword by Jaime Manrique.

"Conversaciones is a vital resource for Latino families. Each year we have far too many adolescents who commit suicide because they cannot discuss their sexual orientation... Tragedies like these can be prevented. This is a book that must be read by all who seek to foster healthy and loving families." —Antonio Villaraigosa, Speaker Emeritus of the California State Assembly

"Conversaciones is a useful and brave testimony, written in the unflagging words of love that only parents can express for their sons and daughters." —Cristina Saralegui, producer and host of the internationally renowned Spanish-language TV show, Cristina

MARIANA ROMO-CARMONA is author of Living at Night and Speaking Like an Immigrant, and she is the co-editor of the groundbreaking collection Cuentos: Stories by Latinas. Her writing has also appeared in The World in Us: Lesbian & Gay Poetry of the New Wave, A Woman Like That, and Companeras: Latina Lesbians. Romo-Carmona is on faculty of the MFA Program writing program at Goddard College. She lives in New York City.