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From gay Afro Latino lawmaker Ritchie Torres to transgender “Pose” star Mj Rodriguez, queer Latinos are making both history and waves in a number of fields. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage. Two polls, taken four years apart, show that not only do more U.S. Hispanics identify as LGBTQ+ than members of any other race, but also that nearly one in five young Latinx adults in the U.S.

Adelante Magazine is the most popular Latino gay magazine in the United States. Adelante provides news updates, feature stories, club advertisements and nightlife, health, music, fashion and much more. The Gay Latino Collective (GLC) is a social and professional group working to build a flourishing community of gay Latinos to grow our networks, leverage our resources, and strengthen our collective power to build community, develop leadership, and support young Latinx students.

Buscamos contribuir a la historia del movimiento regional LGBTI+ ahondando en la garantía plena de los derechos humanos incluyendo además la atención al VIH y la conquista del matrimonio igualitario. Photo by Monica Mendoza. Or how I thought every kid found things out: being told by a bully. It was basically my second home; people in the neighborhood had known me since I was a baby and watched me grow up. It was safe, it was a short distance, and I was responsible.

Kids acted how they always did to me. I was shy. Instead of playing during recess, I sat at the benches with a book in hand. I was always drawn more to the female characters. I was an easy target for other boys. This bully came up to me with a friend in the short walk to the restaurant. When I looked back on it as a kid, I blamed myself for not walking fast enough.

In that case, I applaud you. How they came from this mythical land named Mexico, with its rich culture and history. With the food that your mom cooks you after a long day. The place where your abuela and abuelo are. When you come from a Mexican family and are raised Catholic, your rights and your wrongs are amplified because there is this figure, God, that is watching you.

If he is watching, does he know that I feel wrong? My mom going down to the school to tell my teacher and principal about the bullying solved the issue for the time being. I was having feelings of wanting to be kissed by a boy. Of wanting to find the love that I had seen Disney movies but with a boy.

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At 13, I could work a computer and get on Google. My parents could never figure out technology. The trauma of the word alone was enough to make me feel like there was a weight on my chest that no matter how many times I tried to push off, would just not get off of me. When I was younger, a part of me wanted to find some excitement — something I think I craved because thinking about how my life could be more exciting was a way to escape the inner conflict that was slowly starting to eat its way inside me.

I sought an escape from my hometown, Oakland. It was in that need to get away that I started to resent the Bay Area. But the Bay Area had opened its caring, cultured arms to me. At 16, I had transferred from a public high school to the famous Oakland School for the Arts. And at an open mic night, Kehlani would perform Christina Aguilera songs, treating us to her young raw talent before she took on the music world.

In a school of under , I was with kids with whom I felt safe. There were kids who were undeniably themselves and had no problem letting others know. This whole time, I had a voice that had to be heard.