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Maricón and Proud: How I Reclaimed the Word That Tormented My Childhood

Maricón and Proud: How I Reclaimed the Word That Tormented My Childhood

https://hornet.com/stories/maricon-proud/ by Johnny Lopez Maricón. It’s a derogatory Spanish word that I, like most gay Latin boys, know far too well. As a kid, I heard it on the street. I heard it from people I knew. I even heard it at home via Spanish-language television. Whenever I heard it — even when it wasn’t