Frank Rojas was seeking community and understanding and found it, in person and on Zoom, through L.A.-based organization the Wall Las Memorias Project.
The fashion industry kept Kristen Turner feeling alienated and overlooked. She decided to do something about it. Her new magazine, Mae Jones, also has a hashtag challenge for fashion brands called #NotJustInFebruary., an L.A.-based community health and wellness organization dedicated to serving Latinx LGBTQ populations through advocacy and education.
“It’s very telling of a need for connection,” Victor Guerra-Cardoza, an assistant manager of the organization, told me over the phone this month. “A lot of folks are new to the experience and in understanding themselves and their feelings. There are bars. There is Grindr. There’s other spaces to connect, but when we look at all these intersections of all of our identities, we’re looking at the person as a whole person.
I first came across this organization in November at a South L.A. HIV-awareness event, which I was covering for my blog at the time.Black and Latino queer men are the most affected by HIV. CDC data from 2017 shows that adult and adolescent Latino gay and bisexual men made up 29% of the 27,000 new HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men in the United States and and dependent areas.
After meeting two staff members from the Wall Las Memorias Project, I was encouraged to attend the organization’s support group for Latino gay, bi and queer questioning men. I nervously took them up on the invitation, and for the next few months, I began to attend the organization’s bimonthly meetings in its downtown L.A. office.We have a solid group of about 15 members, and we now meet online once a week for 90 minutes.
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