John Rechy

Person · Open Library

Born

1931

Works

40

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1932-02-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1

Total plays

1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

   · 1996 · cited 204,297x

2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,514x

3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,878x

4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

   · 2007 · cited 35,530x

5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

   · 1992 · cited 29,118x

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Quotes

• “I celebrate that figure as an “outlaw.” That’s someone who lives in defiance of oppressive laws, and, in doing so, thrives against those strictures.”
• “I was bewildered. I did nothing at all to promote the book, even to the extent of denying that I wrote it. I felt that if I left the streets as soon as I had some success, I'd be betraying the world that I wrote about. And the truth is that I couldn't give it up. I'd been hustling for so long that it was a habit.”
• “You have to understand what the world was like back then. Being queer was very dangerous, and there was a lot of stigma about it. Even when I was hustling, it took me a long time to realise myself as a gay man. It's hard to accept that some of us, at one time or another, had heterosexual feelings. I certainly did. I emerged very slowly into homosexuality, despite the way I was living.”
• “It’s been more difficult for me to come out as a Mexican-American than come out as gay.”
• “I cannot tell you what it does to me to hear pre-Stonewall. And even in our literature, even in the art, pre-Stonewall, post-Stonewall. I wrote three books pre-Stonewall and a dozen more post-Stonewall. There’s no demarcation. Gay history is centuries and centuries from the Romans to the Greeks to Oscar Wilde to all kinds of outrages. And those seem to be put back and pre-Stonewall is passive. Post-Stonewall is brave and dignified. I actually have heard things like that…”
• “We confuse gay liberation with straight imitation. Straightness is our goal. This pushes us away from the uniqueness that is the gay experience.”

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

John

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

El Paso

Occupation

journalist

Educated at

University of Texas at El Paso

Employer

University of Southern California

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

City of Night

Military branch

United States Army

Military rank

Private

Official website

www.johnrechy.com

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