Shortly after the 2016 shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Anthony Ocampo began writing his most recent book. The book, “Brown and Gay in LA,” tells the stories of gay sons of immigrants in Los Angeles — specifically of Filipino Americans and Latinos — including his own. He wanted his writing to capture that while same-sex marriage now existed, gay men had lived lives with extreme difficulties in their families, communities and schools beforehand. “The idea that gay men aren’t men is a fallacy,” he said. “When you think of America, you hardly ever think about the queer, gay children of immigrants, even though they are very much part of the mosaic of this country,” he said.

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