With a mixture of history and cultural criticism, the book San Juan Gay: Conquest of urban space from 1948 to 1991 offers a journey through the dizzying path that has followed the presence of gay subject in the city of San Juan from mid to late the twentieth century. Recognizing that at various times of those decades the gay community had more or less visibility, Javier E. Laureano reveals momentous issues that go beyond the obvious and information manipulated by the State and the mass media.