Why are there so many gay puerto ricans
Latino millennials least likely to identify as heterosexual, survey finds
Latino millennials are the least likely millennials to identify as heterosexual, according to the GenForward Survey project at the University of Chicago.
The organization’s recent report, “Millennial Attitudes on LGBT Issues: Race, Culture, and Experience,” found approximately 14 percent of all millennials — defined as those between the ages of 18 and 34 — identify as female homosexual, gay, bisexual or gender non-conforming. When you break it down by ethnicity, however, Latino millennials were much more likely than other ethnicity groups to self-identify as LGBTQ, or non-straight. The survey found 22 percent of Latino millennials identifiy as LGBTQ, compared to 14 percent of African-Americans, 13 percent of whites and 9 percent of Asian-Americans.
“We were ecstatic that the differences emerged. Often millenials are talked about as a monolithic or homogeneous group where everyone is more or less the same,” Vlad Medenica, a postdoctoral researcher who worked on the report, told NBC News.
“One of the aims of our survey is to dig a bit deeper and see how race and ethnicity shape people’s experiences. The fact that Latinx mil
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is a man of many titles and talents: An star, an academic, a writer, a thinker, an activist, the drag queen Lola von Miramar and a groundbreaking scholar on Puerto Rican Queer culture.
He will be reading from his works and discussing his studies, as good as teaching storytelling during a free program from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 22, at The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture, 3015 W. Division St. He took time to talk about his work, his executing and living in these times.
Windy City Times: There are so many titles you possess accumulated with all your work: artist, actor and academic. How do you describe yourself?
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes: I think of myself as a male lover Puerto Rican author, activist and scholar.
WCT: You are living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where you are an associate professor at the University of Michigan. But you spend time in Chicago, don’t you?
LLF: Yes. I would say Chicago is a metropolis that I contain become much closer to and more fond of. … Before I had been focused on New York. But in 2003, I moved to the Midwest and … I started to cultivate many more friendships and connections here with the Pue
My name is William Perez and I’m from Brooklyn, New York.
I went to Cornell University in 1987. I struggled my first semester so much that I had straight Fs and one D. So I was suspended from school. I returned the following fall semester in 1988 and I struggled again.
I had to approach from a very impoverished background and just also being Puerto Rican, I just felt like I didn’t belong. I felt like a fraud. And so I struggled and again, I got very low grades that second semester and I was kicked out again – this time I was kicked out permanently. So for about a year and a half, I just just bounced around, hanging out with friends. I did a lot of clubbing. I met lots of men because I became promiscuous. I did lots of drugs. You know, I was getting into a really bad state.
I got counseling and then that helped me turn around and I went back to school. I went to community college, got my grades back up and then reapplied to Cornell University and was accepted.
When I returned, I met a group of fresh men. They were all African American and queer . There were five of them. And we basically just became our have little family and we supported each other through the years that we were at Cornell
VIVIENDO CON VIH: LA EXPERIENCIA PERSONAL DEL ESTIGMA
AIDS stigma in the Puerto Rican community: an expression of other stigma phenomenon in Puerto Rican Culture
El estigma del SIDA en la comunidad puertorriqueña: una expresión de otro fenómeno de estigma en la cultura de Puerto Rico
Ida Roldán1
Institute for Clinical Social Labor, Chicago, USA
ABSTRACT
Puerto Ricans own been disproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic in the United States (CDC, 2000). Although the Puerto Rican community is famous to be family-centered, often their infected members include had to face their illness without family and community support. A pivotal assumption in this document is that a compelling cultural phenomenon exists in the Puerto Rican collective when it is faced with HIV/AIDS. It is strongly linked to the culture's deep religious and spiritual roots that feel to take hold within the context of the meaning Puerto Ricans provide to HIV/AIDS. These roots have pushed the HIV and AIDS illness into the realm of sin and evil. This culture's inability to condone the shameful and sinful behaviors associated with
Puerto Rico and the American Dream
White Ribbons
In one of the pictures from Vieques I noticed an elderly female standing next to a fence covered in white ribbons. In an
article elsewhere I read the ribbons stood for Peace.
In honor of this woman and Vieques, I acquire placed a pale ribbon on the attenae of my car. In addition, I have copied
the Marina Fuera Indicate and placed it in my motorcar window.
I encourage all Vieques supporters to do the equal.
Everyone, Place a White Ribbon on your car, trees, picket signs, etc to symbolize the fight for Naval freedom in
Vieques.
In the 90’s I was a yellow ribbon supporter of the Troops in Gulf War. I had many college comrade and school teachers
called to the war.
While the ribbons themselves did not bring them dwelling, The display of the yellow ribbons everywhere supported our
friends and loved ones as called by the military.
I knew people of all ages, all walks of life and all races supporting and knowing what these ribbons were for.
It is a similiar story with the pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness and other ribbons for causes.
When people do not know what the ribbons mean, they ask questions and we can distribute the info