Tag: family acceptance
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Hello Goodbye: Why Ugly Betty Is Still Beautiful
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10 years ago, on April 14, 2010, Ugly Betty’s final episode “Hello Goodbye” aired on ABC. “Ugly Betty” was a Mexican-American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta. The show revolved around the character Betty Suarez, who despite her lack of style, landed a job at a prestigious fashion magazine. The series was based…
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José Eduardo | Houston, Tx
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I was born in Mexico, grew up there as a little kid but then I’ve spent most of my life now in Houston, Texas.I was nine years old actually, my dad had to come over to the US undocumented since he was 14 years old. Back in the 80s, it…
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THROWBACK: marcos
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Photo Title: Kindergarden Graduation ’89 In this picture, I’m 5 years old in Matamoros Mexico, graduating from Kindergarten, feeling like the happiest kid next to my mother and father. I remember when I was this age, I always wanted to be around my parents, especially my mother. Being close to…
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Demitri | Washington, DC
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In my time and my neighborhood, a lot of people were the single moms and they had the young single mom that was growing up with. In my culture it was very much, “Yeah stay home, work, go to school, have a kid, this is community.” In Caribbean culture, that…
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THROWBACK: Aces
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A throwback to my childhood, kicking it back in toon town with an irritating pick eye living my best life with the mains. I remember waking up super drowsy after a scary movie night watching “Evil Dead” and the tio’s, tia’s, and grandma surprising the kids with a trip to…
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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 city where there is a lot of latinx people. so i was always surrounded by them but there was never really any support for the lgbtq community. i’m a trans…
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throwback: deivid rojas
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abuelo, instead of asking, ‘¿why did diosito give me a gay grandson?’ ask ‘how will my grandson survive in this world’?‘how can he risk it all everyday to be his true self’?‘how does he have the courage to go against what I want, what our family wants from him?’‘how can…