I was in kindergarten the first time someone called me a f----t. When my classmate spit out the epithet pato in my direction I didn’t know the meaning of the word, but I knew the…
A Puerto Rican LGBTQ advocacy group has moved a Pride month event from a popular entertainment venue after its owners refused to allow drag queens and a Drag Queen Story Hour.
Waves Ahead’s Express Yourself…
In the past ten years, we Puerto Ricans have experienced many situations that have made us recipients of stress, anxiety and hypervigilance. The theme of Covid-19 goes hand in hand with other social problems. It…
The Waves Ahead community center in San Juan, run by Wilfred Labiosa, flies two flags: the trans pride flag with the transgender greek symbol encapsulated in a heart, and the flag of Puerto Rico mixed…
In the past ten years, we Puerto Ricans have experienced many situations that have made us recipients of stress, anxiety and hypervigilance. The theme of Covid-19 goes hand in hand with other social problems. It…
SAGE is proud to partner with the New York City Department for the Aging, Thrive NYC and our SAGE Puerto Rico affiliate at Waves Ahead in a public health campaign for Puerto Rican LGBT elders in New…
The coronavirus pandemic has forced HIV/AIDS service organizations and advocacy groups in Puerto Rico to change the way they work.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Regional Director for Puerto Rico Silvana Erbstein on Tuesday told the Washington…
Waves Ahead volunteers and a home they helped rebuild. Photo courtesy Waves Ahead
Hurricane season is here.
In Puerto Rico, where September 2017’s Category 5 Hurricane Maria devastated the US island territory, many people are still…
Thousands are expected to celebrate WorldPride 2019 in New York where the city is throwing a massive LGBTQ pride march.
This year, WorldPride coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, which was the…
Black transgender women are murdered at alarming rates. They have a bleak life expectancy between 35 and 37 years old, according to Julian K. Glover, an African American Studies doctoral student at Northwestern University and receive an average annual…
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raided by New York City police, sparking five nights of violent protest and 50 years of LGBTQ civil rights advocacy in the U.S.
Today, the gay…
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, center, on May 14, 2019, spoke at a ceremony that marked the official opening of Puerto Rico’s first center for LGBT elders. (Photo courtesy of Wilfred Labiosa)
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for…
Supporting LGBTQ community, homeless, seniors still recovering from Hurricane Maria
A flooded street next to damaged houses in Juana Matos, Catano, Puerto Rico, on September 21, 2017, after Hurricane Maria slammed the island. Photo by…
June is unofficially recognized this year as LGBTQ Pride Month, because of a demonstration that took place in 1969.
The morning of June 28, 1969, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular…
From left: Wilfred Labiosa, co-founder of Waves Ahead, and Lisbeth Meléndez Rivera of the Human Rights Campaign speak about the situation in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Maria during a panel at the National…