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    Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir, gave a reading of his book at CSUN on November 9, 2023. During the event, Gomez discussed his upbringing and read from his memoir. The audience was engaged, laughing at parts of his reading and asking thoughtful questions during the Q&A session. One interesting question discussed Gomez's family's reaction to the book, with his mother apologizing for how she treated him, while his uncle wanted a cut of profits. The event gave insight into Gomez's writing process, as some early chapters began as college writing exercises that he later expanded into his memoir.

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    Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir, gave a reading of his book at CSUN on November 9, 2023. During the event, Gomez discussed his upbringing and read from his memoir. The audience was engaged, laughing at parts of his reading and asking thoughtful questions during the Q&A session. One interesting question discussed Gomez's family's reaction to the book, with his mother apologizing for how she treated him, while his uncle wanted a cut of profits. The event gave insight into Gomez's writing process, as some early chapters began as college writing exercises that he later expanded into his memoir.

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    Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir, gave a reading of his book at CSUN on November 9, 2023. During the event, Gomez discussed his upbringing and read from his memoir. The audience was engaged, laughing at parts of his reading and asking thoughtful questions during the Q&A session. One interesting question discussed Gomez's family's reaction to the book, with his mother apologizing for how she treated him, while his uncle wanted a cut of profits. The event gave insight into Gomez's writing process, as some early chapters began as college writing exercises that he later expanded into his memoir.

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    November 9,2023

    Edgar Gomez
    On November 9, 2023 Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir came to
    CSUN to do a reading of his book. From what I saw many of the people there were students and
    then like 4 professors who also came. The event mainly contained Edgar Gomez talking about
    his book and his upbringing; he even started off with a poem he wrote during quarantine about
    being proud of being gay the crowd was interactive it wasn’t completely silent the whole time
    there were some laughs here and there when he read his poem and when he was talking the book
    and even giving some background. People even asked questions when it was Q&A time. It
    wasn't silent the whole time and there were definitely interesting questions with interesting
    answers. For instance someone asked a question along the lines of “what did your family think
    about the book” to which Edgar replied saying that his mom did read the book and even
    apologized to him about the way she treated him back then he also talked about how one of his
    uncles knew Edgar wrote a book and knew he was in it and said something about wanting a cut
    of the profit since he was it even though his name wasn’t explicitly said. Edgar also said that he
    noticed that while his uncle said what he said he didn’t think that what he did was wrong for me
    personally if felt like his uncle really is set on the mindset he has and isn’t going to acknowledge
    any wrong doing soon. So I found that part of the interview the most interesting because it was a
    reminder that at the end of the day it doesn’t matter if you call people out on what they’ve done
    they might change their public image but they’re still them and there’s no changing that if they
    don’t want to. Something else that caught my attention was when someone asked “when did you
    begin writing the memoir” and he answered that some of the first few chapter he actually started
    when he was in college I mean from what I understood he didn’t have intentions of writing a
    memoir when he was in college and they all came from writing exercises he did. It was attention
    grabbing because even after he’s done with college he used examples or papers he had from
    when he was in college to help him go off on what he did have and continued. The event itself
    was interesting, I’ve never done anything like this before so I didn’t know what to expect or how
    it’d go but it was an easy going session it wasn’t anything I couldn’t understand or difficult.

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