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
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