ROXSANA HERNANDEZ
Roxsana Hernandez was a 33-year old transgender woman from Honduras who came to the United States. She left Honduras because…
Category: Giving Them Their Roses (page 3)
JOSE & LUIS XTRAVANGANZA
in 1990, madonna was arguably the most popular performer on the planet. already known as the queen of reinvention by…
PEPPER LABEIJA
blessed are those who mother the children the world left alone to mind themselves. blessed are the queens who build…
KIYOSHI KUROMIYA
in the late 1980’s, the only approved hiv treatment medication available was AZT. when it hit the market in 1987,…
NAYOBE
if you ask the causal freestyle music listener who the “queen of freestyle” is, you may get a few different answers.…
MELVIN LINDSEY
growing up in the 1990’s, there were ballads and then there were slow jams. that distinction mattered in the early…
SELENA
My love for Selena would begin as a young brown boy growing up in Tucson, Arizona. As a first generation…
HECTOR VALLE XTRAVAGANZA
the year was 1982. new york began the year as one of the most dangerous cities in the united states…
HYDEIA BROADBENT
last august, hydeia broadbent celebrated her 35th birthday. this wasn’t just a milestone but a testament to the sheer determination…
THE GOOD GIRLS
by the late 80’s, motown records, the label that invented the r&b cross-over sound in the 60’s, was struggling to…
LORENA BORJAS
long known as a mother, activist and defender of trans women, sex workers and undocumented LGBTQIA folks, lorena borjas dedicated…
VITO RUSSO
people living with AIDS formed coalitions for each other years before the US present ronald reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS. people…