Gabriel(a)

Gabriel(a) is a novel by Ecuadorian writer Raúl Vallejo Corral published in 2019 by Penguin Random House. It tells the story of Gabriela, a trans woman who falls in love with a businessman from Quito and who faces discrimination from society to achieve her dream of becoming a journalist. The plot was inspired by the story of Michelle Valencia, Colombia's first trans news anchor.

Among the novel's themes are the social exclusion suffered by transgender people, exemplified by the various situations in which both the protagonist and her acquaintances have to deal with discrimination, including the lack of job opportunities, physical violence, and even the danger of falling victims to human trafficking and sexual slavery networks. It also explores the social changes that have taken place in terms of the acceptance of LGBT populations via references to classic works of Latin American and Ecuadorian LGBT literature.

Each chapter in the novel has an illustration created by Ecuadorian artist Joaquín Serrano using a coffee drawing technique.