Dan Vera ✅

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Howdy all, I'm a first-gen, borderlands-born, Queer-Tejano Latinx poet, writer, editor, and literary historian of Cuban/Caribbean ancestry living in Washington DC. Author of books of poetry, editor of Gloria Anzaldúa anthology. Split This Rock, CantoMundo & Macondo fams too.

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Nov 30, 2022 at 11:48pmWeb
Show threadDennis M. Myers ✏️📚Dec 1, 2022
@DanVera Reading this I found myself remembering my Great Uncle Al. He's been gone for decades, but what triggered the memory was that before Castro he was a banker in Cuba. When he left, he brought a young Cuban man with him named Etto and adopted him. It wasn't until I was an adult that I was let in on the family secret that Al and Etto were lovers and the adoption was how Al gave Etto his last name.
Show threadDan Vera ✅Dec 1, 2022
@DennisMyers
Fascinating story Dennis. I know that adopting in that way was how many couples skirted the legal restraints and perils of that earlier pre-Stonewall period. It's also how older partners secured their partners security should something happen to them. The great civil rights pioneer Bayard Rustin and his partner Walter Naegle had such an arrangement. Here's a link to a great NPR story about it.
https://www.npr.org/2015/06/28/418187875/long-before-same-sex-marriage-adopted-son-could-mean-life-partner
Long Before Same-Sex Marriage, 'Adopted Son' Could Mean 'Life Partner'

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and his life partner, Walter Naegle, wanted to legally protect their relationship. But it was the early 1980s, when marriage wasn't an option — and adoption was.

NPR