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Contents:
- HERE'S THE TTH ABOUT BEG A GAY LATO
- HOW MACHISMO CULTURE IMPACTS GAY LATOS
- GAY LATOS FIGHTG BIAS, STEREOTYP ON MANY LEVELS
- THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
HERE'S THE TTH ABOUT BEG A GAY LATO
In a new vio om Flama/Univisn, ntributor Gabe Gonzalez nstcts the nuanc of intifyg as both gay and Lato and the way this shap his life Amerin vio is cidly satiril, and tackl a number of issu about exotifitn among queer men, as well as sexual health the Lato muny.
HOW MACHISMO CULTURE IMPACTS GAY LATOS
HuffPost Live host Karamo Brown was joed by queer Chino journalist Albert Serna, Jr., The Huffgton Post’s assignment edor Mars Saldivar, executive director of jtice matters prs, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, and director of Latos Studi at the Universy of Michigan, Lawrence La Founta-Stok -- each of whom had very different ias about how machismo impacts gay Latos the U.
GAY LATOS FIGHTG BIAS, STEREOTYP ON MANY LEVELS
“So when you’re gay, beg gay is supposed to be liberatg and you’re supposed to be ee and flamboyant, but that’s not exactly what beg a man entails [the] Lato muny, so is difficult to e out and to say, pecially if you’re mascule, to say that you’re gay and embrace homosexualy. ” Lozano disagreed and said that he felt that attributg the problems faced by gay Latos to machismo or Lato culture jt “sensatnaliz” and “racializ” what he believ is a shared gay experience.
Founta-Stok offered his sight and wrapped the segment wh a statement that simultaneoly ntextualized and validated the panelists' differg views: “Lato masculi and Lato sexuali, Lato homosexuali the U.
”Watch Serna, Saldivar, Lozano and Founta-Stok discs machismo the vio above, and click here for the full HuffPost Live on HuffPost:Puerto Ri's First-Ever Mass Gay WeddgPopular the CommunyYou May Like. She is the Lato/a servic ordator for the LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr) Communy Center San Diego, where she se fai torn and battered, as they try to e to grips wh a child who has a different sexual orientatn. That’s the kd of suatn often faced by gay Latos and one reason for nveng the recent hearg, acrdg to Assembly member Rirdo Lara (D-South Gate), who also is chair of LGBT issu for the California Lato Legislative Cc.
THE PERPLEXG NARRATIVE ABOUT BEG GAY LAT AMERI
For Assembly member Norma Torr (D-Pomona), the biggt gap is the need for the mastream muny to accept gays, stead of tryg to get the LGBT muny to f to the mastream. Wh that md, HuffPost Lato Voic terviewed five LGBTQ Latxs about their experience growg up and g out the Lato some, like HuffPost senr vio edor Maria Tridas, g out “is such a load thg, ” plited by language barriers, homophobic attus, machismo and their fai’ rpective relig many, like the thor of Juliet Tak A Breath, Gabby Rivera, also cred the support of iends and fay as helpful both acceptg their LGBTQ inty and appreciatg all aspects of their tersectg inti. Rearch suggts that many sexual mori, dividuals who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual, or who have sexual ntact wh the same or both sex (Centers for Disease Control, 2016), realize their sexual orientatn durg their teens to young adulthood (D’Augelli, 1996; Hunter & Mallon, 2000).