Salir a La Luz Cómo Lesbianas de Color: Coming Out Colored

Seattle: Tsunami Press, 1980. Saddle stapled in photo-illustrated wraps. 57 pp. Text in English and Spanish. 5 ½ x 8 ½ in. Owners inscription on inside cover and title page. Very good. Item #10342

A superb primary source document, and a lesser-known example of writing about lesbians of color.

 Coming Out Colored, released by a small group of anti-racist, anti-capitalist lesbian separatists, prefigured the wave of lesbian coming out stories published through out the 1980s, and articulates a politics that today is recognizable as intersectional. Chumu argues that the construction of race and gender caused lesbians of color to be marginalized in communities of color due to their sexuality, in the queer community because of gender, and tokenized within the lesbian community because of race.

 The next year, the much more widely distributed and studied anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, was published. It is credited with bringing many of these arguments about race, class, gender, and sexuality into wider circulation. 

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