“El machismo y la identidad gay en Noche de Ronda”

The proposal here is to offer a discussion of a few of the discursive intricacies involved in the conflict between what we can refer to, for argument's sake, as a dominant world view of sexuality in the Latino community and the world view, or subjectivity in the making, of the Latino homosexual community, as presented in Pedro Monge Ra¬fuls's 1991 play Noche de Ronda. At stake in this self conscious look at the “queer” world by the exiled Cuban Monge Rafuls, is the issue of how homosexual and heterosexual codifications of desire overlap and collide in the doubly marginalized world of Latino gays