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Latino Programs
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Empower Yourself
Raices - monthly group
Creating a vibrant and healthy LGBT Latino community. Every month we epxlore relevant health and well-being topics through workshops, activities, and guest speakers.
Juntos Conference - February 2010A conference to build a healthy and vibrant LGBT Latino leaders that will bring together the entire community for a weekend of fun and learning
Engage with the Community!
"Marginadas" - June to July 2009An art gallery brought to you by a very talented lesbian Latina artist, Josephina. Stop by the Diversity Center to see the art work.
Noche de Cultura -July 17 2009
A night celebrating the talents of our local LGBT Latino family. Enjoy music, poetry, art and good food. Are you an artist and want to perform?
Dia de los muertos - November 1 2009
Celebrate the lives ofthe community's lost loved ones and the brave LGBT latino leaders of history. Make sugar skulls, eat pan muerto, and make offerings to the community altar.
Noche Para Nosotros - November 21 2009
Celebrate the holidays with your LGBT familia. Enjoy the warmth with us and enjoy good food, drinks and a piñata.
LGBT Posada - December 2009
Celebrate the holidays with your LGBT familia. Enjoy the warmth with us and enjoy good food, drinks and a piñata.
Dia de los reyes - January 2010
Come have a slice of a "Rosca de Reyes" - watch out not to get the hidden doll inside! If you do, you have to throw a party. Enjoy good food and company.
Other LGBT Latino Programs in Santa Cruz County
Educate Yourself and Others
Cultural Pick - from our library
A movie, book, or magazine plucked from our library shelves. Come in to the center and check it out!
Workshop: LGBT Latino Cultural Competency - for health providers, October 2009
A cultural competency workshop for health care providers to more effectively address the needs ans social realities of LGBT Latinos.
LGBT Latino Assessments
A series of surveys conducted currently and in the past to assess the needs of LGBT Latinos to find practical ways of addressing these needs.
Who are we?
Abel Murillo
Latino Program Coordinator
(831) 425-5422 x6
Only 22, Abel has been organizing and mobilizing various communities for 6 years. Driven by a need to create safe, supportive and welcoming spaces that he lacked growing up in a culturally strict environment, Abel works to provide safe and educational spaces for the community. While at UCSC, studying politics and community studies, he left behind an enduring legacy - a much stronger and healthier LGBT student organization as well as a student body more engaged to the needs of its LGBT peers. He has been instrumental in recent developments in the LGBT Latino community in Santa Cruz County: Watsonville Pride, the LGBT Latino Retreat, the creation of the first LGBT Latino Task Force and the first linguistically accessible Transgender Day of Remembrance in Watsonville.
Lilia Sandoval
Latino Program Intern
Lilia Sandoval is a junior in the UCSC Community Studies Department currently working as an intern with the Triangle Speakers and Latino Programs. She identifies as a lesbian, and is interested in working with the LGBT Latino community as a career. She is particularly interested in doing field work with this program because she attended a high school where she felt that the LGBT community was forced into invisibility by homophobia, transphobia and prejudice. Lilia will begin an intensive 6 month 40 hour per week internship in July where she will support the Latino program in various duties.