Roberta Colindrez Defies and Inhabits the Gay-Latina Label in "A League of Their Own"

Mexican American actress Roberta Colindrez plays another gay Latina in Abbi Jacobson’s “A League of Their Own,” but that doesn’t mean she’s been typecast. “I don’t think that being gay and Latina is a monolithic experience,” Colindrez tells POPSUGAR in a recent interview. Her character Lupe García, the Rockford Peaches’ pitcher, is quite dynamic. She can spy hypocrisy, even when she’s trying to please; has no shame in her game, even when the world tells her she should; and finds a way to live in the present, even as she deals with trauma from her past.

You may recognize Colindrez from one of her 30-plus roles, including playing Nico, the bartender and love interest on Tanya Saracho’s “Vida,” which ran for three seasons on Starz. And while she says being gay and Latina are parts of her identity she’s proud to represent, she also wants folks to understand that they don’t sum up all of who she is or who she portrays. “I do play gay Latinas because I present as gay and Latina. And I think that a lot of times, definitions are very much more visual for people than they are anything else,” she says. “What’s important about playing gay Latinas is to find things about them that are much more specific . . . Otherwise, those two definitions could easily be a trap.”

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