Loteria gay

Lotería is nearly ubiquitous in Mexico. Each player is given a tabla , a grid of cards, and while an announcer draws from a deck, players hope for matches in vertical, horizontal, or diagonal lines. He says he draws inspiration from a wide range of influences, like pop art, 20s fashion advertisements, and Japanese Edo prints. I wanted to harness that to tell a queer story with this deck.

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The artwork for La Loteria was originally introduced by the Spaniards in to the Indigenous people of what is now Mexico. It carried with it the desire to convert these people to Christianity and to enforce strict gender roles and unequivocal heterosexuality. The artwork has since been updated, but imagine a deck where the cards show a queer world, our world; imagine a deck where La Sirena was non-binary and had a trans lover; imagine La Bota as a towering stiletto complete with glitter and a long, slim metal heel; imagine queer icon Gladys Bentley in her majestic white suit and top hat adorning the card El Catrin. Imagine a deck where we see our queer past, present, and future.

This project imagines what popular Latinx imagery would look like in the Queer community of Toronto in the s. This is imagined through archived photographs, newspapers, and posters of this community found at the ArQuives. This game is often used as a template to depict popular or traditional imagery. This project utilizes this traditional game as inspiration to convey the significance of the people, places, and events specific to Toronto and the Latinx Queer community as seen through the archive.