Bold, Brave & Beautiful…

By Jorge. Diaz, MSW, Clinical Social Walker, jorgeadiaz2010@gmai.com We have been in this fight for over 30 years and although we have made advances, shame and stigma and the high rates of HIV inf

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Palabra y Omisión

Vulnerable Por: Eder Díaz Santillán Estoy en un vuelo de regreso a Los Ángeles, con muchas emociones encontradas mientras escribo esta columna. Estos últimos días he estado mayormente ausente,

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Palabra y Omisión

Vulnerable By Eder Díaz Santillán I am sitting on a flight back to Los Angeles facing all sorts of emotions as I write this column. These last few days I have been mostly absent and away from m

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El ARTE de Nancy Lorena Reyes

SOBRE MI Soy originaria de Zacatecas,México radico en el Este de Los Ángelesdesde muy pequeña. Llegué a este país con solo cuatro añitos. No me fue muy difícil aprender inglés o adaptarme a una nu

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The ART of Vincent Takas

Vincent Takas is an accomplished Southern California watercolor painter who attributes his success to 25 years of employee development classes with the Walt Disney Company. Mr. Takas teaches wate

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El ARTE de Vincent Takas

Vincent Takas es un consumado pintor de acuarela del sur de California, atribuye su éxito a 25 años de clases de desarrollo para empleados con Walt Disney Company. El Sr. Takas enseña pintura de a

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Querido Luis Sandoval

Por: Eder Díaz El 11 de octubre del año pasado me levanté a las 4 de la mañana para hacer unas entrevistas en Univisión 34 Los Ángeles. El motivo era compartir mi historia como un hombre abiertame

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Dear Luis Sandoval

On October 11th of last year, I woke up at 4 in the morning to do a couple of interviews for Univision 34 Los Angeles. I had been invited to share my story as an openly gay man and talk about my podc

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Grindring Ethically

Many studies have been conducted on how Instagram and other social media apps for the ways that they inspire users to compare themselves to others and the negative feelings that prolonged usage gener

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Échale ganas

La Magia de Viajar Por: Francisco Dueñas Soy un fiel creyente en la magia de viajar. Me crié visitando a familiares cada otro año en México para las navidades, visitando a los pueblos donde se

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The magic of traveling

I am a faithful believer in the magic of traveling. I grew up visiting relatives every other year in Mexico for Christmas, visiting the villages where my parents were raised, imagining them as a chil

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Facing Hate

You were right all along: They really do hate you. Well, the occasional stranger is going to hate you because, after all, in their world, they're going to feel better so long as they can hate someb

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Palabra y Omisión

Juntos, pero no Revueltos Por: Eder Díaz Estamos a solo dos meses de las manifestaciones y celebraciones de orgullo LGBT del mes dejunio en varias ciudades en Estados Unidos y también en gran p

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Together we are more

We are only a couple of months away from the pride parade and celebrations of June that not only take place in various cities of the U.S. but in other parts of the world, including Mexico. I don’t th

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The Art of Mela Troncoso

I am Mela Troncoso. As a child born in a peaceful little, storybook village in San Antonio Pajonal, El Salvador, isolated and far away from so much of the spinning world events of the 20th century, i

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El Arte de Mela Troncoso

Soy Mela Troncoso. Como una niña nacida en un pequeño pueblo como sacado de un cuento en San Antonio Pajonal, El Salvador, aislado y alejado de gran parte de los acontecimientos mundiales del siglo X

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Body Shaming

By Mary Khon Hello, Queeridos!!! The official Pride Month is over and I hope you enjoyed each minute of it to the max. I celebrated with friends, participated in the gay parade in San Francisco

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Shoppin’ for a New Man

Okay, the last relationship was painfully disappointing but, hey, my good man, Onward! This time there is a way to ensure you have a much, much higher probability of success in terms of having tha

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