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Organizing Director
The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee
Rights Coalition Creates a Group for
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verbally, and mentally
abused. My mom never
guess it was kind of to
escape my marriage. I went
supported who I was - she
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to be gay. And I always knew I worked in the fields until I
I liked boys and that I liked to was 21. I was in the closet,
pretending to be a straight
dress up. I don’t know if I
guy.
was especially abused
because I was her only kid
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from her first marriage or
because of my sexual and
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didn’t know nobody. It was
gender identity, but I was
treated worse. I knew who I easier for me to be
was and what I wanted, but I somewhere where no one
wasn’t understood. When
knew me. I could do
whatever I wanted and
Three Kings Day arrived, I
wanted dolls. I used to trade nobody would notice. So, I
my sisters for their dolls and came out and I started living
my gay life. I can remember
tea sets.
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Damayan
New York, NY
LEAH OBIAS
respected me, treated me right, and I
got to meet a lot of great people.
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I haven’t been participating in Casa
Latina for awhile. A couple years ago
there was this guy who was just
homophobic. He would talk behind
my back, which I just had to ignore.
One time we got into a confrontation
at the weekly membership mtg. He
was insulting me in front of everyone
and we got into an argument. I felt
really bad. Half of the day laborers
were with him even though he was
It’s been ups and down since I made talking shit. Of course, I reacted - I
that decision. It turned my life around had to defend myself. I felt really bad
completely, changed everything. It’s
because people were supporting his
not easy, but I don’t regret it. I think
crap, saying I was rude, but didn’t talk
that’s the best decision I’ve made in
about why I reacted. Maybe it wasn’t
my life. It hasn’t been easy.
the best way to react, but I was
pushed to it. Casa Latina backed me
My family has accepted me, but it
up 100%, but we both got
was hard. When I was a boy I would
suspended.* I got really disappointed
hide myself. That’s why I got married, and stopped being active, even after
had a lot of girlfriends. When I was
the suspension ended. I was really
telling my brother, he said “I know.”
upset. That guy never came back
They always knew. I had spent so
either. Unfortunately the majority of
much energy pretending but
discrimination I’ve experienced is with
everybody knew I was gay. I learned my own people, with Latinos. We
about accepting ourselves for who we have to stop discriminating against
are. That can be the hardest thing.
each other. Sometimes I want to go
back and become a member again to
I worked as a housekeeper for many help and be part of it.
years and got connected with Casa
Latina. When I came to NDWA
Since then, I went back to school and
events, I would feel nervous,
got my GED. I want to have a career
wondering how people are going to
as an interpreter.
see me, treat me, react. It was a very
good experience for me. Everybody
exactly the day I decided I wanted to
be a transexual. I connected with this
organization called Entre Hermanos
Latinas. We marched for gay pride
and I was dressed up. We were with
another friend, dancing with 6 inch
high heels on. Everybody cheered. It
felt so great! This is me! That’s who I
am. I’m not gonna hide no more. I just
want to do what my heart tells me to
do. That’s when I decided to become
a transexual. I didn’t transition until I
was almost 30 years old.
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