Vargas' late-life public outness but lifelong queerness might be an example of a phenomenon acclaimed Mexican singer Juan Gabriel famously summarized when he himself swatted away prying inquiries into his orientation with the reply "Lo que se ve, no se pregunta" ("There's no need to ask about something that's obvious"). Without making tacit assumptions about Gabriel's sexuality, it seems that he, Vargas (for most of her life) and other Latin American musicians have articulated expressions of queerness in their music that have little to do with outness.

Vargas' late-life public outness but lifelong queerness might be an example of a phenomenon acclaimed Mexican singer Juan Gabriel famously summarized when he himself swatted away prying inquiries into his orientation with the reply "Lo que se ve, no se pregunta" ("There's no need to ask about something that's obvious"). Without making tacit assumptions about Gabriel's sexuality, it seems that he, Vargas (for most of her life) and other Latin American musicians have articulated expressions of queerness in their music that have little to do with outness.

Viua Bogart---