CHARLIE VÁZQUEZ
charlievazquez@ambiente.us

Charlie Vázquez is a radical Bronx-bred, Brooklyn-
based writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.
His fiction and essays have been published in
various anthologies, such as the iconoclastic
volumes, Queer and Catholic (Taylor & Francis,
2007) and Best Gay Love Stories: NYC (Alyson, 2006)

His stories, interviews, book reviews and essays
have appeared in print and online publications
such as Advocate.com, Chelsea Clinton News,
NYpress.com, Tanglefoot, Dreck, BigFib and
Mensbook Journal. Charlie hosts a monthly reading
series called PANIC! (in the East Village), which focuses on unusual and original
writing—from lesbian erotica to transsexual poetry to horror. He is a former
contributor to the Village Voice’s Naked City blog, a retired experimental
musician and photographer, and worked as an assistant to avant-garde diva
Diamanda Galás, one of the world’s most controversial musicians, for two-and-a-
half years.                      firekingpress@yahoo.com           
www.firekingpress.com

Charlie Vázquez is a contributing writer & reviewer for Ambiente.
2009 | ARTICLE ARCHIVES
APRIL | ABRIL 2009

Book Review | Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans and the
Making of Modern New York City
(Markus Wiener 2004) Edited by Gabriel Haslip-Viera, Angelo
Falcón, and Félix Matos Rodríquez

Book Review | Ruins by Achy Obejas| (Akashic 2009)


MAY | MAYO 2009

Gay Puerto Rican Scholar Larry La Fountain and his Blue
Fingernails

Desayuno en la cama | Book Review
(Egales editorial, Madrid, Barcelona, 2008)

Behind the Screen | How Gays and Lesbians Shaped
Hollywood,1910-1969

JUNE | JUNIO 2009

Emanuel Xavier on Growing Up, the Ballroom Days and the
Resurrection of Christ Like

Book Review| Blue Boy  by Rakesh Satyal |Charlie Vázquez
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JUNE | JUNIO 2009

Review | Legends of the City of Mexico | Thomas A. Janvier
(Lethe 2002)

JULY | JULIO 2009
The Eminent Jaime Manrique

SEPTEMBER | SEPTIEMBRE 2009
Queer and Catholic editor Trebor Healey’s Perfect Scars

Cuentos Del Centro | Stories from the Latino Heartland

Spic Chic, by Luis Chaluisan

JANUARY | ENERO 2010
Sarah Schulman's Study on Homophobia and Family

MARCH | MARZO 2010
Interview with Mark Weiss, editor of The Whole Island| Sixty
Years of Cuban Poetry (Univ. of California, 2009)

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