‘Love, Victor’ tells journey of a Lato gay teen – The Durango Herald

Contents:

• LATO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S RELATNSHIPS WH NON-GAY-INTIFIED MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN
• TRANS, GAY TEENS ON HOW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW AND TEXAS ORR HARM LGBTQ KIDS
• ‘LOVE, VICTOR’ TELLS JOURNEY OF A LATO GAY TEEN

LATO GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S RELATNSHIPS WH NON-GAY-INTIFIED MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN

Lato lennials are the least likely lennials to intify as heterosexual, acrdg to the GenForward Survey project at the Universy of anizatn’s recent report, “Millennial Attus on LGBT Issu: Race, Inty, and Experience, ” found approximately 14 percent of all lennials — fed as those between the ag of 18 and 34 — intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Often lenials are talked about as a monolhic or homogeneo group where everyone is more or ls the same, ” Vlad Meni, a postdoctoral rearcher who worked on the report, told NBC News. ADDITIONAL FINDINGSA majory of Lato (61 percent) and Asian-Amerin (53 percent) lennials surveyed said there is “a lot” of discrimatn agast lbians and gays their racial muny, pared wh 43 percent of Ain-Amerins and 27 percent of to discrimatn agast transgenr people their racial muny, the percentag who said there was “a lot” of discrimatn were signifintly higher: 64 percent of Asian-Amerins, 58 percent of Ain-Amerins, 49 percent of Latos and 47 percent of wh.

But some surprisg velopments wh the Lato world -- the Uned Stat and abroad -- suggt that may be changg, gay scholars and activists say.

'Walls are startg to cmble' "A lot of walls are startg to cmble, " says Charlie Vazquez, a New York-based thor whose fictn has appeared books such as "Bt Gay Love Stori: NYC. Wh the past three years, lawmakers untri as diverse as Uguay, Colombia and Mexi have passed laws grantg rights and protectns to gays and lbians.

TRANS, GAY TEENS ON HOW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW AND TEXAS ORR HARM LGBTQ KIDS

" And far away om the stage, even some of the most vulnerable gay Latos -- ordary stunts public high schools -- are fdg more support, one group says. While many gay Lato stunts still face physil and verbal harassment om classmat and teachers, more are beg bolr about affirmg their sexual inty, a recent survey found.

A 2007 survey nducted by the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network disvered that at schools where a Gay Stunt Alliance club existed, 59 percent of gay Lato stunts participated the club, says Elizabeth Diaz, a senr rearcher at the work. The work also says that sce 1999, at least 4, 000 Gay Stunt Allianc have formed groups at public and private schools the Uned Stat. "While harassment schools for Lato gay stunts remaed high, we also know that the stunts have more support than past generatns, " Diaz says.

Lours Torr, print of Amigas Latas, a lbian and bisexual support group, says the notn that Lato people are more homophobic and s men more macho is not only false, but tged wh racism. Emanuel Xavier, a gay poet and spoken word artist, says he almost stroyed himself bee he uldn't fd acceptance wh the Lato muny.

‘LOVE, VICTOR’ TELLS JOURNEY OF A LATO GAY TEEN

His own mother lled him nam when she disvered he was gay, says Xavier, edor of "Mariposas: A Morn Anthology of Queer Lato Poetry. Andr Duque, a gay Lato activist and journalist, says those differenc n make difficult to mobilize support for Lato gay issu. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.