Homecoming Queers provides a critical discussion of the multiple strategies used by queer Latina authors and artists in the United States to challenge silence and invisibility within mainstream media literary canons and theater spaces Marivel T Danielson s analysis reveals the extensive legacy of these cultural artists including novelists filmmakers students and activists comedians performers and playwrights By clearly discussing the complexities and universalities of ethnic racial sexual gender and class intersections between queer Chicana and U S Latinas Danielson explores the multiple ways identity shapes and shades creative expression Weaknesses and gaps are revealed in the treatment of difference as a whole within dominant and marginalized communities Spanning multiple genres and forms and including scholarly theory alongside performances films narratives and testimonials Homecoming Queers leads readers along a crucial path toward understanding and overcoming the silences that previously existed across these fields