Trans activist Samantha Flores opens the first free hostel for LGBT adults in Mexico
GAYLES.TV.- Finally Samantha Flores He has been able to realize his dream. Thanks to a campaign of through crowdfunding has managed to gather U.S. dollar 22.000 who have promoted their project to create the first shelter for the elderly LGBTTTI de Mexico. "A safe space where they are free to be themselves. A safe place without discrimination«, Explains this 86-year-old woman who began activism in the XNUMXs when a friend of hers died from HIV.
"TheHeterosexuals of the third age are forgotten, abandoned, cornered and segregated. But adults LGBT seniors are invisible. Nobody knows that we exist. We want to satisfy the most primary need: to end loneliness and to be able to reunite as a big family. Lots of gay seniors turn back to the closed to be admitted by their family«, Says Samantha. That is why he created the Vida Alegre Foundation whose objective is to give voice to this message, to make it reach not only the community LGBT + but to the whole world; On the one hand raising funds to start up the shelter, create community, family and a better quality of life for them, and on the other, no less important, raise awareness and make this vulnerable group shine again.
This place that I dreamed about is a reality and it's called Laetus Vitae The over 60s shelter opened in early 2018 and is supported by donations. There are currently two guests and it has the capacity to host up to ten people. «For more discrimination we suffer, for more persecution we suffer. We exist! They can not disappear. And not only do we exist, we multiply!»Samantha warns.
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