Weekend-long vaquero conventions are held in more than a dozen cities on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border. The gatherings celebrate not just sexual freedom but Mexican identity itself. “This is a space for people with a common history.”
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Carlos Vazquez, center, celebrates his 25th birthday with Alejandro Gonzalez, left, and Fernando Jairo Medrano, right.events, including the $5,000 he shelled out for T-shirts, beer coolers and other gifts that helped him win last year’sBut it’s all been worth it, he said. Along with the engraved silver belt buckle bestowed on all contest winners, he’s gained friendship and even love. He met his boyfriend at the Zacatecas convention a few years ago.
Courtships bloomed at the bar, in line for tacos and next to a table overflowing with cookies and cake. On one hot afternoon, many men stripped down to trunks and jumped into a pool, lounging on floating plastic toys. “They’re a little more hardened,” he said of his queer elders. “I was born with the right to say: ‘I’m gay.’ ”
And if one of the older band members later made a disparaging comment about the audience during a cigarette break , at least it was out of earshot of any of the participants.Sons of Mexico’s ‘El Chapo’ Guzman release a letter denying they produce fentanyl or feed cartel victims to tigers. They claim they are misunderstood.
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