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i came here from mexico when i was 7. i was living in oxnard, california until last year. it’s a…

Fernando | Philadelphia, PA

I moved from Chicago to Philadelphia with not much more than could fit into a small SUV and with no…

in our community it’s kinda taboo to talk about mental health, it’s taboo to talk about depression, we don’t talk…

We didn’t grow up celebrating Noche Buena. My mother didn’t bake cookies and we didn’t drink coquito. Chyle, I didn’t…

Ivan: I have been homeless for two years and even then I still don’t identify as homeless. It’s just this label…

abuelo, instead of asking, ‘¿why did diosito give me a gay grandson?’ ask ‘how will my grandson survive in this…

his name was rob. he was 26. i met him in the bronxm4m aol chat room. it was 2005 and…

i come to philly to turn up, to party. i think it’s great because i meet more people like me…

I was born in Tonalá, Jalisco in Mexico but I grew up in East LA since I was two years…

Louie: Where did you grow? Armando: Whenever people ask me where I grew up, I always say this verbatim: “I grew…

I came to the states from Peru with my mother and my sister when I was 4 years old. I…

i went through so much. i went through hell and back. and i went so much in the latino gay…