Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (born April 10, 1968) is a gay Puerto Rican author, scholar, and performer. He is better known as Larry La Fountain. He has received several awards for his creative writing and scholarship as well as for his work with Latino and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (

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Life

La Fountain-Stokes was born and raised in

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, specifically in Miramar, a traditional neighborhood located in the central district of Santurce. He was

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at birth by Donald and Ramona La Fountain, and is the brother of the

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newscaster Michele La Fountain. He has written about his childhood experiences in an essay called "Los nenes con los nenes y las nenas con las nenas" irls with Girls, and Boys with Boys where he describes his childhood home as

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and

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, as he was raised speaking

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and Spanish. His essay "Queer Diasporas, Boricua Lives: A Meditation on Sexile" also discusses some of these early experiences. La Fountain-Stokes received all of his primary and secondary education at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, an elite bilingual school run by the

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. He graduated from high school in 1986. He then studied at

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, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Hispanic Studies in 1991. While in college, La Fountain-Stokes spent a year and a half studying at the

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. He later went on to obtain a master's degree and Doctorate in Spanish from

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. La Fountain-Stokes started his teaching career as an assistant

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at the

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(1998–1999) and then taught at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey for four years (1999–2003). Since 2003, he has taught Latino studies, American studies, and Spanish at the

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, including courses on queer Hispanic Caribbean culture, LGBT studies and Latino literature, theater, performance, and film. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2009 and to professor in 2019. His interviews in Spanish with leading Latino artists, journalists, and scholars such as the Uruguayan novelist and pop singer

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and the ''

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'' journalist Sam Quiñones appear on the "University of Michigan in Spanish" channel on

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and on

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Scholarly works

La Fountain-Stokes's academic writing has focused mostly on queer Puerto Rican culture.La Fountain-Stokes CV
retrieved on October 6, 2012. His book ''Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora'' ( University of Minnesota Press, 2009) discusses LGBT Puerto Rican migration from a cultural studies perspective, with chapters on

Luis Rafael Sánchez Dr. Luis Rafael Sánchez, a.k.a. "Wico" Sánchez (November 17, 1936) is a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, and short-story author who is widely considered one of the island's most outstanding contemporary playwrights. Possibly his best known play ...

Manuel Ramos Otero Manuel Ramos Otero (July 20, 1948 – October 7, 1990) was a Puerto Rican literature, Puerto Rican writer. He is widely considered to be the most important coming out, openly gay twentieth-century Puerto Rican writer who wrote in Spanish, an ...

Luz María Umpierre Luz María "Luzma" Umpierre-Herrera (born in 1947) is a Puerto Rican human rights advocate, New-Humanist educator, poet, and scholar. Umpierre-Herrera works on the topics of activism and social equality, encompassing the immigrant experience, ...

Frances Negrón-Muntaner Frances Negrón-Muntaner (born 1966) is a Puerto Rican filmmaker, writer, and scholar. Her work is focused on a comparative exploration of coloniality, primarily in Puerto Rico and the United States, with special attention given to the intersec ...

Rose Troche Rose Troche (born 1964) is an American film and television director, television producer, and screenwriter. Early life and education Troche was born to Puerto Rican parents and grew up on the north side of Chicago. In an interview she stated, "M ...

Erika Lopez Erika Lopez (born 1968) is an American cartoonist, novelist, and performance artist. Lopez has published six books or more and has internationally achieved her performance art. She is of Puerto Rican descent who has published six books and speak ...

Arthur Aviles Arthur Avilés (born 1963) is an American Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer of Puerto Rican descent. Avilés was born in Queens, New York, and raised in Long Island and the Bronx. He graduated from Bard College, a liberal arts colle ...

, and Elizabeth Marrero.La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. ''Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora.'' Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. ''Queer Ricans'' is based on La Fountain-Stokes's Ph.D. dissertation, which he wrote under the supervision of

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. The author received funding for this project in 1997 from the International Migration Program at the

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.SSRC Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop Participants
retrieved on November 21, 2008. His book ''Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance'' (

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, 2021) is on Puerto Rican and diasporic drag and trans performance and activism since the 1960s, and on the links between cross-dressing, sex/gender modification, and physical displacement in a geographic zone marked by frequent migrations. La Fountain-Stokes analyzes the work of a number of contemporary performers and activists including Sylvia Rivera, Holly Woodlawn, Nina Flowers,

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, Freddie Mercado, Jorge Merced, Javier Cardona,

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, Barbra Herr, and Kevin Fret. La Fountain-Stokes has published scholarly articles in journals such as ''CENTRO Journal'', ''Revista Iberoamericana'', and '' GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies'', including his essay on his travels to Cuba, "De un pájaro las dos alas," which first appeared in ''GLQ'' in 2002 and was reprinted in ''Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles'', edited by the

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gay writer

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. La Fountain-Stokes describes this article as a "fictionalized, experimental narrative or autoethnography based on istravel experiences as a gay Puerto Rican theater critic and former graduate student." He has also written on the use of animal words such as ''

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'' (duck in Spanish) to refer to homosexuality in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. La Fountain-Stokes frequently publishes short newspaper articles in Spanish, particularly in ''En Rojo'', the cultural supplement of the Puerto Rican weekly ''

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''. These include theater and performance reviews, book reviews, and essays on popular culture, such as his piece on a calendar by the popular Puerto Rican male model and former police officer Peter Hance. These short pieces were collected in a volume titled ''Escenas Transcaribeñas: Ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura'' (Isla Negra Editores, 2018). La Fountain-Stokes is also a frequent speaker at professional meetings and college campuses, and has talked about his work in several countries, including

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, and

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. He has also been actively involved in a number of professional organizations, particularly the

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, the Latin American Studies Association, the Puerto Rican Studies Association, the Caribbean Studies Association, and the

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Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), holding positions of leadership in several of these.

Creative works

La Fountain-Stokes is best known as an author of short stories, but he has also published

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and received awards for his plays. His first book of fiction, ''Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails'' (

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, 2009), includes 14 short stories written in the 1990s and early 2000s, some of them while the author was enrolled in a creative writing workshop taught by the Chilean author

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. His second book, ''Abolición del pato'', was published by Terranova Editores in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 2013. His fiction has also appeared in a number of anthologies such as ''Bésame Mucho: New Gay Latino Fiction'' (1999), ''Los otros cuerpos: Antología de temática gay, lésbica y queer desde Puerto Rico y su diáspora'' (2007), and ''From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction'' (2011). He has also published in journals and websites such as ''Blithe House Quarterly'' and ''Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly''. Most of La Fountain-Stokes's stories focus on gay Puerto Rican characters, and sometimes incorporate elements of

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and

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. The scholar Enrique Morales-Díaz has written extensively about one of these stories, "My Name, Multitudinous Mass," describing La Fountain-Stokes as a "Diasporican" author. La Fountain-Stokes's plays include ''¡Escándalo!'' (2003) and ''Uñas pintadas de azul'' (2006, an extension of a short story included in his book of short stories). Both of these plays have been read publicly as part of the

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Asunción Playwrights Project in the Bronx, but neither one has been staged.

Performance

La Fountain-Stokes has done solo and ensemble performance for stage and video. In 2004 he did a one-man show, ''Abolición del pato/Abolition of the Duck'', as part of the Casa Cruz de la Luna First Experimental Festival in San Germán, Puerto Rico, and later at the

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(BAAD!) Out Like That Festival. The main character of this piece is Lola Lolamento Mentosán de San Germán, who is accompanied by Rigoberta

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and the ñusta Isabel Chimpu Ocllo. The ''Village Voice'' described ''Abolition of the Duck'' as "This is not

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" in reference to the artist's use of indigenous dolls as puppets to talk about Puerto Rican homosexuality. Starting in 2010, he has collaborated with

Fausto Fernós Fausto Fernós (born April 16, 1972) is an openly gay Puerto Rican podcaster, performance artist, and drag performer. He originated and co-hosts the Feast of Fun, an award-winning daily comedy talk show, with his partner Marc Felion. They were th ...

and Marc Felion of the

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in the making of a series of

videos titled ''Cooking with Drag Queens'', in which Lola von Miramar (La Fountain-Stokes's persona) makes Puerto Rican delicacies such as tostones and

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together with Saltina Obama Bouvier (Fernós) and Daphne DuMount (Felion). He has also done solo videos, also available on YouTube.

Awards

* Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2009. * La Celebración Latina "Circle Award," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. (In recognition of outstanding Service to the University Community), 2008. * ALMA (Assisting Latinos to Maximize Achievement) Appreciation Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006. * Lavender Graduation Award, Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Affairs, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2006. * Michigan Campus Compact Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award, 2006.University of Michigan
"A2 Faculty Member Nets Service-Learning Award"
''The University Record Online'' (February 20, 2006), retrieved November 21, 2008. * Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty, 2006. * Second place, Pregones Theater's Asuncion Playwrights Project Play Competition, for play entitled ''Uñas pintadas de azul'', 2006. * Fellow, Global Ethnic Literatures Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004. * Third place, Pregones Theater Asunción Playwrights Project Play Competition, for play entitled ''¡Escándalo!'', 2003. * Fellow, Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2001–2002. *

International Migration Program, Minority Summer Dissertation Workshop Fellowship, Summer 1997.

Publications

Fiction

* ''Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails.'' Tempe:

, 2009. * ''Abolición del pato.'' San Juan, Puerto Rico: Terranova Editores, 2013.

Non-fiction

* ''Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora.'' Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. * ''A Brief and Transformative Account of Queer History/Un breve y transformador relato de la historia queer.'' Edited and illustrated by Dave Buchen. San Juan: Enciclopedia Deiknumena, v. 3, 2017. * ''Escenas transcaribeñas: ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura.'' San Juan: Editorial Isla Negra, 2018. * ''Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance.'' Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Performance texts

*
Abolición del pato.
' ''Teatroteca Virtual "Estela" de Casa Cruz de la Luna'', San Germán, Puerto Rico, 2004.

Videos (creative)

*
Cooking w/ Drag Queens - Lola Von Miramar - Arroz Con Pollo (Rice with Chicken)
' (with Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion, Feast of Fun Podcast, Chicago). YouTube, 17 June 2015. (16:12 min.) *
How To Make Coquito - Cooking with Drag Queens
' (with Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion, Feast of Fun Podcast, Chicago). YouTube, 6 Jan. 2012. (5:15 min.) *
Learn Spanish by Making Cocktails
' (with Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion, Feast of Fun Podcast, Chicago). YouTube, 10 Sept. 2011. (7:36 min.) *
Lola von Miramar - To Cuba With Love.
' YouTube 21 June 2011. (10:01 min.) *
13 Rosas y una Lola para el Amor
' (with Freddie Mercado, Librería Mágica, Río Piedras, Puerto Rico). Recorded by Zulma Oliveras. Courtesy of

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro (born October 29, 1970) is a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican novelist, short story writer and essayist. Biography Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro was born on 29 October 1970 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and was raised by her grandparents, P ...

. YouTube, 14 Feb. 2011. (4:37 min.) *
Cooking with Drag Queens: How to Make Tostones
' (with Fausto Fernós and Marc Felion, Feast of Fun Podcast, Chicago). YouTube, 16 Nov. 2010. (5:08 min.) *
Lola lee Uñas pintadas de azul.
' YouTube, 19 Aug. 2010. (2:11 min.) *
Los Otros Cuerpos: Manuel Ramos Otero y Rane Arroyo, In Memoriam.
' YouTube, 24 June 2010. (3:34 min.) *
¡Qué Viva Ricky Martin!
' YouTube, 21 June 2010. (2:45 min.)

References

External links

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on

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