El ambiente nuestro examines in unprecedented depth homoerotic issues in the writing of such authors as John Rechy, Michael Nava, Francisco Alarcsn, and Richard Rodriguez. David William Foster explores the important body of writing on these issues that began with John Rechy's founding texts of Chicano narrative and continues with more recent works such as Jaime Manrique's Eminent Maricones. While not a historical survey of Latino homoerotic writing, this book examines in detail key texts in queer Latino literary tradition by focusing on selected works and by foregrounding Chicano writers in particular.