This week, I traveled to the COP25 (25th Council of Parties) city-wide Global Climate Justice Summit in Madrid, Spain representing Orlando and QLatinx. I’m here with the Gulf South Rising delegation, an amazing group of frontline communities from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. We represent diverse identities of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and rural communities. Many of us are queer. We have diverse interests in plastics, water access, flooding, racial just

The Stonewall Riots were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the LGBTQ+ community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The riots are widely considered to constitute the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. The Stonewall Riots were led by five local

This evening, we stood shoulder to shoulder with community leaders, advocates for social justice and cultural transformation and members of our diverse and flourishing immigrant community in Orlando to watch the 2019 State of the Union. President Trump used this occasion to once again attack our most vulnerable communities, and demand billions of dollars to fuel his deportation machine and senseless border wall. In a time where LGBTQ+ Americans are watching our rights being r

QLatinx has joined the Human Rights Campaign, the National LGBTQ Task Force, The National Center for Lesbian Rights, ACLU of Florida, Florida Trans Proud, and TransAction Florida as co-sponsors of Equality Florida's call for the passage of the Florida Competitive Workforce Act (FCWA), a fully-inclusive bill to explicitly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. We support a fully inclusive Florida Competitive Workforce Act that explicitly protects L

We are deeply and unequivocally disappointed in the decision of the Supreme Court to lift the nationwide injunctions that had kept this admi

On December 1st, the Central Florida Ryan White HIV/AIDS Planning Council hosted their annual World AIDS Day event, which invited leaders from across Central Florida to join together in reflection of the work done to build on the HIV/AIDS movement over the past 30 years. We gathered to renew our commitment to an AIDS free generation by addressing the epidemic together, remembering those lost over the years that gave their bodies and voices for the movement, and to uplift thos

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. It’s a date we set aside to intentionally mourn those in our trans and gender non-conforming commun

On Thursday, October 18th, QLatinx joined The Reformation Project to host the annual Academy for Racial Justice, as part of The Reformation Project's National Conference -- hosted in Orlando in 2018. As LGBTQ+ and straight people of faith and spiritual grounding, how do we make our movement for LGBTQ+ affirmation and inclusion fully anti-oppressive? What does healing from internalized racism and internalized homophobia look like? During the day long lesson, QLatinx Executive

The National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD) is a national community mobilization and social marketing campaign that unites the Hispanic/Latino/a/x community in efforts to raise HIV awareness, promotion of HIV testing, prevention, and education; in addition to other critical health issues such as viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and tuberculosis (TB). This year I had the pleasure of sitting down with Florida House District 49 Representative Carlos Gu

On October 6th, QLatinx Executive Committee members and staff were onhand to support the the Serious Games, which included disaster simulation, where participants were be asked to navigate real-life disaster scenarios so that they can gauge gaps in mission critical functions such as water, energy, communication. #Advocacy #OrganizeFlorida #SeriousGames #QLatinx