New Book Release: La Bugambilias A Bilingual Queer Novel by Lalo León

 

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Lalo León brings his Millennialist perspective to his debut novel “Las Bugambilias – A bilingual queer novel”, touching on themes of faith, culture, identity, and sexuality.

Michael closes his eyes, and he can see it clear as day. The dream that has been plaguing him for the past 2 years, seductively haunting him even in his waking hours. He describes what it looks like every Saturday to Pastor Roberts during their special appointments, hoping that through practice he can kill the fantasy within him before it can bleed out into his real life. But the pressures of church, home and culture reignite the passions within him, and by the end of the summer he will find himself questioning if the world around him will end or will he have to venture into the reality he has tried to deny for so long.

About the author:

At the age of 20, Lalo León was placed into conversion therapy through his local church and remained an ardent adherent to the practice for 10 years. It was not until a series of compounding crisis, that he stopped the therapy and began to deconstruct the falsehoods that he had been led to believe. “Las Bugambilias – A bilingual queer novel” is a cathartic culmination of his time in conversion therapy and retroactively explores not only the damaging effects of conversion therapy, but also the Americentric views of maleness that lie at the heart of the practice. Lalo is a proud Mexican-American, born and raised in Southern New Mexico. He holds an engineering degree from New Mexico State University, and master’s degree from Arizona State University. He currently resides in Phoenix Arizona.