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My name is Angeles Jimenez, I am the Proyecto Poderoso community and we are in the Orgullo
y Poder Latino Conference in the heart of the Central Valley in California. This conference
is a compilation of different trainings for the community on how to tell your story and
share our story as LGBT community, Lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender; to our communities,
to our families, and our loved ones. So that they know us, what we are, and how we are
and at the end of the day we are just like anyone else. So that we can eventually create
communities that are compassionate and more accepting of us. The Latino community tends
to be a little hostile to LGBT people so by sharing our stories, by sharing what we have
lived, it will make a difference within our families, in our communities and that is the
purpose of this conference. To motivate the people that attend today to share their story,
to talk to other people about it and through this, do their part to change our communities
and make a better world for ourselves and also other communities that are not necessarily
LGBT but are marginalized and ostracized.