Horacio Roque Ramírez
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BornNovember 15, 1969
DiedDecember 25, 2015 (aged 46)
Alma materUCLA (BA, MA)
UC Berkeley (PhD)
UC Berkeley (PhD)
DisciplineChicana/o studies
Horacio Roque Ramírez | |
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| Born | November 15, 1969 |
| Died | December 25, 2015 (aged 46) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | UCLA (BA, MA) UC Berkeley (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Chicana/o studies |
| Sub-discipline | Oral history, LGBT history |
| Institutions | University of California, Santa Barbara |
Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (November 15, 1969 – December 25, 2015)[1] was a Salvadoran American oral historian, writer and advocate whose work focused on LGBT Latino communities and the Central American experience in the United States. He was a faculty member in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2]
Roque Ramírez was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador. Fleeing the Salvadoran Civil War, he immigrated to Los Angeles at age 12, in 1981.[3] He earned a B.A. in psychology and M.A. in history at UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.[4] He came out as a gay man in 1992.[5]
