Edson Hurtado Morón (born 1980 in Vallegrande, Bolivia) is a Bolivian journalist, writer, and researcher. He has published more than six books and has an extensive career as a radio and television journalist. Additionally, he worked as head of department at the Ministry of Cultures and Tourism from 2013 to 2016 and directed the documentary Vallegrandino (2021).[1][2]
He started his career as a radio presenter at 15 years old in Vallegrande. For more than a decade, he continued working in radio, mainly in local stations. He also started to work in television and was a presenter of interviews like Seres de palabras, shown on TV Culturas and focused on writers.[1] Among his radio shows are Nuestra noche, transmitted for more than five years to a national audience on Radio Santa Cruz.[3]
His first literary works were the poems De sábanas y otras decepciones and ...Y tu nalga también, published in 2007 and 2008, respectively.[2]
At the end of 2010, he published a biography, No volveré a querer, in which he explores the history of the musical group Los Taitas del Beni after a year of research on the topic.[4] The work was a commercial success, which led the publishing house to publish a second edition one month later.[3]
No volveré a querer was followed by the book of chronicles Ser gay en tiempos de Evo, published in 2011 and which gathered the experiences of LGBT Bolivians through 133 testimonials.[5] Agreeing with the author, the book was the first work of non-fiction about homosexuality in the country and was written over a period of eight months.[6] The book was translated to English, Portuguese, and German.[2] Hurtado continued his approach into LGBTQ populations in his next work, Indígenas homosexuales (2014), which was subsequently reissued with the title La Madonna de Sorata: Crónicas sobre indígenas homosexuales, and which explored the life of LGBTQ people belonging to indigenous communities in Bolivia.[7][8]
In 2016, Hurtado started to work on his first movie, a documentary titled Vallegrandino that premiered online in March 2021. The movie, which has a duration of 100 minutes, explores the story of his grandfather and the history, identity, and customs of the Vallegrande Province through testimonials, photos, interviews, and archives.[9][10]
Despite his part in the LGBT community, Hurtado has stated that his form of activism forma is through his academic works.[11]
