As a gay mariachi mician, Carlos Samaniego grew tired of the discrimatn and bullyg om other mariachis the macho world of the Mexin folk genre. So was born Mariachi Ariris Los Angel, billed as the first LGBTQ+ mariachi band, which played three gigs the Los Angel area on the Mexin holiday of C Mayo on Wednday as part of an acceptance mpaign promoted by a Mexin beer pany. Samaniego, who studied classil sgg and vl, said he formed the first eratn of the band 20 years ago wh gay men, gettg an early boost om gigs at a gay Lato wboy nightclub.
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- L.A.'S ONLY ALL-GAY MARIACHI BAND
- SOCAL BT BETS FOR THE WEEKEND: GAY MARIACHIS, CUBAN AMERIN FTIVAL, ZOMBIE JOE’S
L.A.'S ONLY ALL-GAY MARIACHI BAND
Natalia is regard as the first transgenr mariachi performer what has bee renowned as the gural LGBTQ+ mariachi band on god’s gay earth: Mariachi Ariris Los Angel. * mariachi gay *
Mariachi micians Carlos Samaniego and Natalia Melenz found out the hard way—first through discrimatn, ridicule, and profsnal blackballg among their mician peers, then via the challengg path of advotg for the acceptance of gay, lbian, and transgenr people the mariachi world. Their goal was to fd a “safe space” mariachi mic to be themselv, both as Mexin Amerins and as gay and transgenr people.
Carlos assembled a mariachi to play for a gay pri event at California State Universy, Los Angel. The group was such a succs that attracted the attentn of the owner of a Lato gay nightclub, who hired them to play weekly. And I haven’t been allowed to be certa groups bee of that, bee I’ve been openly gay.
This time, though, driven by the digni of homophobic prejudice, he wanted the group to be more upont about s inty.
SOCAL BT BETS FOR THE WEEKEND: GAY MARIACHIS, CUBAN AMERIN FTIVAL, ZOMBIE JOE’S
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He returned to the gay nightclub, whose owner immediately hired the group. And that’s a part of me as well as beg a gay man.
They have been featured major gay pri events, as well as at the annual Santa Cecilia mariachi ncert Los Angel’s Mariachi Plaza, where the dience of their mil peers mand an enre.
And mariachi is mariachi—gay, straight, bi, or whatever. After g out as a gay man, Carlos Samaniego found that he was not wele many Mariachi groups.