Have an interesting LGBTQ+ story to share? We might feature U! Email us at podcast is not affiliated with Pride Media.The Bindery hosts Alex Espinoza for his new book Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime. Edited by Frank Driscoll and Daniel Ferrera. PRIDE is produced by Levi Chambers, Frank Driscoll, Maggie Boles, Ryan Tillotson, and Brandon Marlo. Want more great shows from Straw Hut Media? Check out or website at. You can follow Levi across socials.įollow the show and keep up with the conversation across socials. Your host is Levi Chambers (he/him), founder of Rainbo Media Co. He lives in Los Angeles with his partner Kyle and is the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair of Creative Writing. Alex is also deeply involved with the Puente Project, a program designed to help first-generation community college students make a successful transition to a university. His newest book, Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime, was published by The Unnamed Press in June, 2019. His awards include a 2009 Margaret Bridgeman Fellowship in Fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a 2014 Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2014 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for The Five Acts of Diego León, and a 2019 fellowship to MacDowell. He has also reviewed books for the LA Times, the American Book Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and NPR. His essays have been published at, in the New York Times Magazine, in The Other Writing Against a Singular Identity, in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Magazine, and as part of the historic Chicano Chapbook Series. His fiction has appeared in several anthologies and journals, including Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire, The Southern California Review, Flaunt, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. His second novel, The Five Acts of Diego León, was also published by Random House in March 2013. The book was released simultaneously in Spanish, under the title Los santos de Agua Mansa, California, translated by Lilliana Valenzuela. His first novel, Still Water Saints, was published by Random House in 2007 and was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of California-Riverside and an MFA from UC-Irvine’s Program in Writing. And consider the impact of COVID and dating apps on this enduring sexual practice.Īlex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico to parents from the state of Michoacán and raised in suburban Los Angeles.PRIDE is back for Season Two! To celebrate the last day of Pride Month, and to kick off the rest of Pride Year, Levi Chambers sits down with queer historian, author, and professor Alex Espinoza to explore the intimate and radical history of gay cruising.
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