Cuéntame (Spanish for count me or tell me your story) is a new initiative that seeks to encourage Latinos to tell their stories.
"An Honest Conversation" is their LGBT video series. They include the coming out stories of Latina lesbians and an undocumented gay Latino.
The video of Ronnie, however, holds the most interest for me since I can relate to so much of his story.
He was bullied in the Army for being gay. Mercifully, I did not have that experience in the Marine Corps.
We do, however, share an understanding of the challenges in coming out about being gay and having HIV to our Latino family and friends.
Kudos to Ronnie for overcoming so many hurdles, including HIV. I wish him well.
"An Honest Conversation" is their LGBT video series. They include the coming out stories of Latina lesbians and an undocumented gay Latino.
The video of Ronnie, however, holds the most interest for me since I can relate to so much of his story.
He was bullied in the Army for being gay. Mercifully, I did not have that experience in the Marine Corps.
We do, however, share an understanding of the challenges in coming out about being gay and having HIV to our Latino family and friends.
Kudos to Ronnie for overcoming so many hurdles, including HIV. I wish him well.
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Comments on Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr.'s blog entry "An Honest Conversation"
Hello I couldn't understand why people are like this to us!! It s the same thing as being disabled!! I'm deaf and Thank god for my friends who understand what I'm going thru right now!! Some people ask me stupid qq and that insult me, Someone who is a friend to me who ask me if she could get the virus by sleeping on the floor right next to me and I told that person "NO" and it shocked me !!! Wow Some people don't get it!!!!!!! We all have mistakes! And NO ONE IS PERFECT!!!!
A very powerful video.