Translation Rights TQE / Reckless. About gay/lesbian teen-agers in Argentina

In January, 2006, Santos, the teenage son of a high society couple, shocked his parents when he revealed that he was a homosexual. His family’s response was perfectly clear: they demanded caution. This reaction is mirrored with slight variations, in a great many homes where there live a gay son or a lesbian daughter. This story is the starting point used by journalist Josefina Licitra to step into the universe of gay and lesbian teenagers, a territory that is peopled with strangely fragile individuals. These are adolescents that face a society that turns the words “understanding” and “contention” into brutal and terrible “straightening” instruments. What is the price to be paid for being a gay boy or a lesbian girl? Los imprudentes is the account of a desperate era and of an especially difficult period in life, and is also the setting to bring about a handful of universal questions that are opened with deep gentleness and that are, usually, atrocious.

Praise for Los imprudentes:

 “Licitra’s chronicle honors the genre, going into a line of social studies that has mainly focused on homosexual adults, male and female. It is a necessary book and a choral tale about diversity.” Perfil

Josefina Licitra (1975) has a degree in Journalism and is a Political Sciences graduate as well. Since 1994 she writes for the main newspapers and magazines both at home in Argentina and overseas. Her chronicle Pollita en Fuga was awarded the Best prize by the Foundation for a Better Journalism.