LOS ANGELES – Rosy Milagro Rosales Gil, a 52-year-old single mother of two, has been a staple for the Los Angeles LGBTQ+ community’s late night plus afterhours club and bar crowd dispensing hotdogs, tamales, and a friendly smile for nearly 16 years.
Selling her Mexican and Guatemalan street food outside of a litany of LA area LGBTQ+ establishments as a street vendor, she has made a living for herself, but now due to COVID-19 with multiple businesses shutting down, Gil has been put between a rock and a hard place.
Because of these difficult times, Gil’s friends set up a GoFundMe to raise money to prevent her from being evicted. “Starting off selling hotdogs and tamales outside of Faultine over 15 years ago, she set up a second stand outside