The Coalition for Queer People of Color (CQPoC), MESA/Trotter, and the Center for Campus Involvement invite you to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and queer Latino/a identity in honor of Latino/a Heritage Month!

The evening will begin with a photo gallery viewing of brave Latino/a LGBTQQ or similarly identifying people and allies expressing this intersection of identities and end with a dynamic panel discussion.

The panelists will be discussing their experiences living, teaching, and researching Queer Latinidad.

Panelists include:
-Larry LaFountain-Stokes, Director of Latino/a Studies
-Isabel Millan, PhD candidate in American Culture
-Anthony Mora, Latino/a Studies Associate Professor
-Ramiro Alvarez Cabriales, Undergraduate Member-at-Large for the CQPoC
-Elise Hernandez, Joint Social Work & Developmental Psychology
-Jose Baurmeister, M.P.H., Ph.D, Director of SexLab

Viewing starts at 6:30pm, panel discussion starts at 7:00pm; the entire event will take place in the Art Lounge of the Michigan Union (1st floor, near State St. entrance).

If you are someone that identifies or similarly identifies as a Latino/a ally or Latino/a & LGBTQQ then you have the opportunity of modeling for the photo series! Simply contact Ramiro Alvarez Cabriales (raal@umich.edu) before October 6th for more details

"I am visible...yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't, we haven't."