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Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (born April 10, 1968) is a gay Puerto Rican author, scholar, and performer. He is better known as Larry La Fountain. He has received several awards for his creative writing and scholarship as well as for his work with Latino and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students.〔"La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence." ''Who's Who in America'' 59th edition, 2005. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, 2004. ISBN 0-8379-6982-4〕 He currently resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ==Life== La Fountain-Stokes was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, specifically in Miramar, a traditional neighborhood located in the central district of Santurce. He was adopted at birth by Donald and Ramona La Fountain, and is the brother of the ESPN newscaster Michele La Fountain. He has written about his childhood experiences in an essay called "Los nenes con los nenes y las nenas con las nenas" (with Girls, and Boys with Boys ), where he describes his childhood home as bilingual and bicultural, as he was raised speaking English and Spanish.〔La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. "Los nenes con los nenes y las nenas con las nenas." Matthew Rottnek, ed. ''Sissies and Tomboys: Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood''. New York: New York University Press, 1999. 236-44. ISBN 0-8147-7483-0〕 His essay "Queer Diasporas, Boricua Lives: A Meditation on Sexile" also discusses some of these early experiences.〔La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. ("Queer Diasporas, Boricua Lives: A Meditation on Sexile." ) ''Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas'' 77 41.2 (Fall 2008): 294-301, retrieved on November 21, 2008. (Requires payment or subscription.)〕 La Fountain-Stokes received all of his primary and secondary education at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, an elite bilingual school run by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. He graduated from high school in 1986. He then studied at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Hispanic Studies in 1991. While in college, La Fountain-Stokes spent a year and a half studying at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He later went on to obtain a master's degree and Doctorate in Spanish from Columbia University in New York City. La Fountain-Stokes started his teaching career as an assistant professor at the Ohio State University (1998–1999) and then taught at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey for four years (1999–2003).〔Abney, N'Kechia. ( "Assistant Prof Says Adios to OSU." ) ''The Lantern: The Student Voice of Ohio State University'' (May 7, 1999), retrieved November 21, 2008.〕〔Abney, N'Kechia. ("Ethnic Studies Programs Denied." ) ''The Lantern: The Student Voice of Ohio State University'' (April 26, 1999), retrieved November 21, 2008.〕〔Frías, Mónica. ("Latino Studies: A Heated Discussion at Ohio State." ) ''¿Qué Pasa, OSU?'' (Spring 1999), retrieved January 6, 2009.〕 Since 2003, he has taught Latino studies, American studies, and Spanish at the University of Michigan, including courses on queer Hispanic Caribbean culture, LGBT studies and Latino literature, theater, performance, and film.〔(American Culture (University of Michigan) ), retrieved on November 21, 2008.〕〔(University of Michigan Romance Languages and Literatures ), retrieved on October 6, 2012.〕〔Mortimer, Jeff. "The Road to the Familiar." ''LSAmagazine'' (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Spring 2006: 26-31.〕 He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2009.〔Guarnieri, Anthony and Amanda Schweitzer. ("Regents Roundup." ) ''The University Record Online'' (May 18, 2009), retrieved on May 23, 2009.〕 His interviews in Spanish with leading Latino artists, journalists, and scholars such as the Uruguayan novelist and pop singer Dani Umpi and the ''Los Angeles Times'' journalist Sam Quiñones appear on the "University of Michigan in Spanish" channel on YouTube and on iTunes U.〔(UMinSpanish YouTube Channel ), retrieved November 22, 2008.〕
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