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NDW A PRIDE IN OUR WORK
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I was already married - things jJ1$H1-1D1H4/M didn’t work out for obvious reasons. My cousin told me Unfortunately for me in my childhood, I was physically, he got a ticket for me, so it wasn’t really a decision, but I verbally, and mentally abused. My mom never guess it was kind of to escape my marriage. I went supported who I was - she always knew that I was going to Fresno, CA. I was 17, and 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 I didn’t start coming out until from her first marriage or because of my sexual and I moved to Seattle where I 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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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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