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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.

Offering a whirlwind thematic tour of the most iconic contemporary Latina lesbian performers (and to some extent writers) today, Danielson (Arizona State Univ.) organizes this critical voyage around the central question of how Utinidad and sexuality complicate the concept of home. The author seeks to explicate expressions of queer Latina subjectivity through the lens of Gloria Anzaldúa's mestiza consciousness, a reconceptualization of difference and agency.