Any gay action around south of the boarder

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Skip to main content. A beginner drag queen discovers that in South Texas, queer history and family history can be one and the same. I sometimes get criticized for not looking conventionally feminine enough. But I like to do things a little differently.

Some queens will do numbers in only one language or the other. I had a real hard time accepting that I was gay. I was harassed and bullied at school when I was younger. My mom spoke English with a heavy accent. She was from the town of Camargo, in Mexico just across the border from Rio Grande City, where my dad grew up.

As a child I would go over and visit, and I was ten years old when we went to a family reunion in Mexico. He was stabbed multiple times in his apartment, and no one knew why. One thing about being gay on the border is that so many people leave. I went to college in Vermont.

With Trump in now, it seems especially important to be here. But even before that, there was a pull for me. Some of my family have been in the Valley for at least years. I can even trace some as far back as the s. That was 20 years before the American Revolution! Doing this history, I kept running into people like her, who knew my uncle Chaco.

And something else I found out while doing the history: My uncle had another gay bar, in Mexico, just south of McAllen, in Reynosa. Humans of the Border: Gabriel Sanchez. Facebook X Reddit Email Print. Leave this field blank. Related content.