Recalling LGBTQ+ Stories in Hispanic Heritage Month
The saddest chapter and the most empowering our community experienced was in the wake of the California ballot initiative, Proposition 8, that took away marriage rights same-sex couples had gained only months previously.
It was Prop 22, which we’d lost years earlier and that made its way through the courts and resulted in a court ruling that codified our right to marriage yielding the “Summer of Love.” However, with a very hurtful and divisive campaign led in Los Angeles mostly by the Catholic church, voters approved the removal of our rights at the ballot box.
Among these voters were Latinos who heard from the local Cardinal to vote against us. In L.A., representing the majority vote in California, the Latino vote matters – as the mainstream LGBTQ+ community learned the hard way.When HONOR PAC opened the first openly gay campaign office in East L.A.
