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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, June 24, 2018
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Latino LGBT artists display heartfelt works
quiet, drawing since he was 4
years old led him to choose a life
in art.
had it close-cropped,” said Se-
bastian, a Monterrey native and
a Dallas resident since 2004.
“I thought about doing a
painting of myself where I did
the opposite to Frida — saying
I love my long hair and now I
love myself more. It’s a small
tribute to Frida and myself,” said
Sebastian, who besides Kahlo,
has being inspired by the work
of Remedios Varo, Marc Chagall
and Salvador Dali.
Sebastian’s pieces are an un-
usual mix of religious images,
bright colors inspired in Mex-
ican folk art, Japanese manga
and 18th-century art.
He says he conveys biograph-
ical moments and memories
from his childhood and teenage
years, as well as drawing from
icons of literature and music.
His works have also been
shown in Los Angeles and Tyler.
He’ll have an exhibit in New
York next July.
“The ‘m-word’ is too strong
for me because its meaning, as I
grew up in Mexico, is the oppo-
site of what we want to do here,
which is making the community
aware of us and celebrate who
we are,” Sebastian said.
By Jenny Manrique
The Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — For a group of
Latino LGBT artists, it was time
to reclaim the Spanish pejora-
tive “maricon” in much the same
way the term “queer” has been
re-appropriated by American
gays and lesbians.
“We took away its offensive
connotation in order to give a
platform and a voice to a com-
munity that has some things to
say through art,” said Alejandro
Trevino, board member of Art-
titude and program director of
MariconX, an art show focusing
on, for the first time in Dallas,
the work of Latino LGBT peo-
“I like to paint something
that creates an emotion, either
of sadness or joy, things you can
have a conversation about,” said
Saucedo, who was bom in the
state of Zacatecas, Mexico, and
whose art is being exhibited for
the first time in Dallas.
In his paintings, Saucedo cap-
tures scenes from his own child-
hood and his life as an immigrant
In one of them, he depicts
himself with his brother holding
a U.S. flag, a sight evoking a day
when a snake crawled into their
house.
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“It’s a representation of the
culture and racism: of what this
country has given me and how it
has hurt me at the same time.”
In another piece, called “No
Eres de Aqui (You’re Not From
Here),” Saucedo recalls his first
days in school, when children
singled him out for not speaking
English.
In yet another one he ap-
pears handcuffed — a reference
to one of his two arrests for be-
ing an unauthorized immigrant.
And the one epitomizing the
most painful moment of his life:
a crying child clinging to his
dad — it is Saucedo himself as
a 7-year-old facing the deporta-
tion of his father, who later died
in an unsuccessful attempt to
sneak back into the U.S.
“Few times have I seen a snap-
shot of what I represent in other
galleries. I don’t think there are
many spaces, let alone in Dallas,
where we can feel totally open to
be who we are,” he said.
pie.
The Dallas Morning News
reports through pieces of art and
photography, they are seeking to
promote understanding of their
community. ‘We thought about
doing a show all over Texas, par-
ticularly in South Texas, where
there’s a budding gay move-
ment,” Trevino said.
‘We made a call in social me-
dia, and all these artists showed
up with their work. We opened
our doors without prejudice.
Whatever they choose to call
themselves
transgender — this space is for
them.”
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Brandon Wade/The Dallas Morning News
Cannon Flowers, left, and Raf iQ Salleh-Flowers view “When I Have Long Hair” by Armando
Sebastian during an art show featuring Hispanic LGBT artists at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center
in Dallas on May 4.
photographer for 10 years, two
of them in the U.S.
Her portrayals show the spon-
taneity of love between mothers
and daughters and sons, a win-
dow into gay parenting.
Peregrino has taken part in
a number of shows in Mexico,
but this is the first time she is
exhibiting her work in the U.S.,
after she met curator Trevino in
Washington, D.C.
She said she believes she has
more opportunities to grow as
an artist here than in her own
country. “I think spaces for the
gay community are still lacking.
But people have been gaining
freedoms. It is important we
keep fostering art amid discrim-
ination in Texas and nation-
wide,” she said.
In a second photo sequence
— still a work in progress — two
naked men look intently at the
camera lens.
They’re more intimate pic-
tures, personal representations
of body identity free of shame.
“My purpose is showing who
we are under our clothes,” Pere-
grino said.
“Exploring our relationship
with our own body — how we
look at ourselves, how we would
like to look, how other people
look at us and how they want us
to look. At the end of the day, it’s a
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gay, bisexual,
A naked woman’s torso,
which was shown on MariconX’s
page, was censored on Facebook
as organizers were advertising
the event.
The black-and-white pho-
tograph by artist Debra Gloria,
which is part of the Sensualidad
series, showing the naturalness
of the female body, had to be re-
placed with another, more “uni-
versally accepted” image.
“It’s incredible how a wom-
an’s nipple gets immediately
censored, but a shirtless man is
accepted as a natural thing,” said
Gloria, 56, who taking photos
for 28 years after she fell in love
with it while attending an af-
ter-school class at San Antonio
University.
In Sensualidad, Gloria wants
to celebrate love among women,
the vulnerability of the female
gender but also its passions,
women’s ways of loving and the
meaning of unconditional love.
“Ever since I have shown my
work publicly, I have been cen-
sored,” she said. “Sometimes I’m
afraid people won’t view women
as I see them, which is a celebra-
tion of their beauty.”
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The show, which opened
May 4 at the Oak Cliff Cultur-
al Center, hit the road to Aus-
tin, San Antonio, Houston and
McAllen, a city having its first
Gay Pride Month this June.
The show recently returned
to Dallas at the Latino Cultural
Center, featuring the works of
29 artists. It will remain open
through July 27.
Trevino thinks Latino artists
are “underrepresented,” espe-
cially when it comes to being “a
person of color and a homosex-
ual. We want to be a vehicle to
keep celebrating diversity.”
Four of the artists talked
with The Dallas Morning News
about their views on identity,
culture, religion, media and pol-
itics, as well as sexual and gen-
der identity.
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In 2009, Olivia Peregrino
went to Monterrey to spend
some time with her female
friends. She realized most of
them were living as couples and
forming families with children.
Fortuitously, she started tak-
ing pictures of them. She ended
up with a series of portraits illus-
trating the experience of being a
lesbian mother in Mexico, a set-
ting where same-sex marriage is
still an open-ended struggle.
“I wanted to give visibility
to these families. It’s an issue
people don’t talk about much
back in Monterrey, as same-sex
marriage is only legal in Mexico
City and Coahuila state,” said the
47-year-old artist, who’s been a
Jenny Manrique/The Dallas Morning News
Artist Marco Saucedo poses with his paintings during the
art show Maricon featuring Hispanic LGBT artists at the Oak
Cliff Cultural Center in Dallas on May 4.
work about acceptance,” she said.
Mexican artist painted short-
ly after divorcing her cheating
husband, Diego Rivera.
In her original painting,
Kahlo appears wearing a man’s
shirt, shoes and an oversized
suit. Hovering are the lyrics of a
Mexican popular song: “I loved
you because of your hair. Now
that you cropped your hair, I
don’t love you anymore.”
“I never let my hair grow un-
til a couple of years ago. I always
An androgynous figure
combs a long, black mane sur-
rounding them. The phrases
scribbled around their hair at-
test to loving one’s self in every
possible way.
Armando Sebastian drew
his inspiration from Frida Kah-
lo’s “Autorretrato con Pelo Cor-
to (Self-Portrait with Cropped
Hair),” which the renowned
For Marco Saucedo, painting
is therapy.
The 30-year-old DACA re-
cipient said he grew up with the
“shame” of being homosexual,
immigrant and undocumented,
and, while he used to be shy and
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BNSF spokesman Andy Wil-
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just south of Doon in Lyon Coun-
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Veteran given lawn
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whose life and business were
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lawn-mowing
through the nonprofit group
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The theft occurred early May
tie Rock River. Wiliams had ear-
lier said 33 oil cars had derailed.
Nearly half the spill —
estimated 100,000 gallons
had been contained with booms
near the derailment site and an
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then use equipment to separate
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Officials still hadn’t de-
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by a Denton County grand jury on
Thursday at the Denton County
Courts Building. Listed are those
indicted, their age (at date of
indictment), charges and the law
enforcement agency that made the
arrest:
• Linda Kelly, 41, assault family
violence, Carrollton police
• Tia Davis, 22, aggravated as-
sault, Dallas police
• La’Quarrio Fleming, 32, assault
family violence, Dallas police
• Derwin Choyce, 34, assault fami-
ly violence enhanced, Denton police
• Mitchell Cole, 53, repeated viola-
tion of court order, Denton police
• Warden McChristian, 50, assault
family violence enhanced, Denton
police
• Glen Millinger, 50, assault family
violence enhanced, Denton police
• Devin Mitchell, 23, assault family
violence enhanced, Denton police
• Joshua Stutts, 29, assault family
violence enhanced, Denton police
• Justin Taylor, 30, two counts of
assault family violence enhanced,
Denton police
• Rene Martinez, 20, assault family
violence enhanced, Denton County
Sheriffs Office
• Shane Sams, 34, assault family
violence enhanced, Denton County
Sheriff’s Office
• Christian Foy, 33, assault family
violence enhanced, Lewisville police
• Ashton Lecomte, 22, stalking,
Lewisville police
• Radondo Jones, 37, continuous
violence against the family, Little
Elm police
• Flumberto Andrade, 45, aggravat-
ed assault, Little Elm police
• Malcom Merriman, 35, continu-
ous violence against the family, Little
Elm police
• Michelle Olabarrieta, 23, aggra-
vated assault, Little Elm police
• James Cotton II, 39, two counts
of assault family violence enhanced,
Denton police
• Athmaram Pabbathi, 36, contin-
uous violence against the family,
Lewisville police
• Richard Privette, 50, assault fam-
ily violence enhanced, aggravated
kidnapping, Lewisville police
• Anthony Fluynh, 24, assault family
violence, The Colony police
• Derrick Crawford, 47, assault
family violence enhanced, The
Colony police
• Jonathan Smith, 31, two counts
of aggravated sexual assault, aggra-
vated assault, The Colony police
• Sean Sciortino, 46, repeated
violation of court order, Fort Worth
police
• Anthony Banks, 40, injury to a
child, Dallas police
• Arthur Love, 21, indecency with a
child, Denton police
• Andrew Nino, 25, three counts of
indecency with a child, Denton police
• Jason Fleiman, 43, indecency
with a child, Lake Dallas police
• Harry Holley II, 38, continuous
sexual abuse of young child, Sanger
police
• Jorge Pena-Martinez, 51, indecen-
cy with a child, Lewisville police
• Blair Brown, 41, fraudulent use or
possession of identifying informa-
tion, possession of a controlled
substance, Corinth police
• Le’Darrius Bell, 19, tampering
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• Gregory Allen, 28, credit card
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• Kevius Williams, 35, credit card
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Oak police; credit card abuse, North-
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• Alan Flanley, 34, possession of
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police
• Bradley Cordell, 25, six counts
of possession of child pornography,
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