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Tag: Alberto Aguilera Valadez

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Larger than life: Juan Gabriel transcended rigid ideas of gender, sexuality

by El Tecolote Staff September 8, 2016

On Aug. 28 thousands of people across Mexico and Latin America, who grew up listening to the music of Alberto Aguilera Valadez—iconically known as Juan Gabriel and more tenderly, ā€œJuangaā€ā€”mourned and wept upon learning of his unexpected death. He was 66. As a 23-year-old queer Xican@, Juan Gabriel’s music speaks to me on a political […]

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