Este grupo de apoyo entre pares en español, contribuye a mejorar la calidad de vida de las personas LGBTQIA+ que viven con VIH, mediante intervenciones de prevención y promoción de la salud a través de las experiencias personales y aprendizaje.

Facilitadores: Wendell Oviedo (All pronouns welcome) & Yonatan Matheus (All pronouns welcome) 

This interactive program is based on the Cambridge Interchange Program: conversation, writing, reading, and listening conversation. The program is designed to deliver ESL classes to the immigrant LGBTQIA+ communities and to offer a space to learn English where community members can be themselves. The program is made up of 4 levels, each level has 16 units, and each unit has 2 to 3 grammatical points. The program duration may vary, depending on students’ pace.

Facilitator: Veronica Cordido (She/Her)

Este grupo de discusión híbrido está dirigido para todes las personas LGBTQ+ latines en el cual se podrán compartir diferentes puntos de vista sobre los diversos temas que se viven en nuestra comunidad. En este espacio de socialización en Español se favorecen los vínculos sociales basados en el respeto mutuo y la construcción colectiva. Se trabajará desde el debate, la recreación, la formación y otras técnicas que promuevan la enseñanza, la reflexión y la motivación.

Facilitadores: Wendell Oviedo (They/Them/Elle) & Yonatan Matheus (All pronouns welcome) 

This support group allows community members, who are seeking community and social support, to openly discuss their experiences as trans, gender nonconforming, nonbinary, gender-expansive individuals. This social space provides an opportunity to share their ideas on various topics related to the self and the environments queer people find themselves in.

Este grupo de apoyo es un espacio de reunión, información y solidaridad para personas LGBTQ+ migrantes en Español, donde se podrán intercambiar experiencias, estrechar lazos de solidaridad y conocer recursos que les permitan responder a los retos propios del proceso migratorio. En este grupo social se promoverá la educación, información y guía para personas inmigrantes de las comunidades LGBTQ+.

Facilitadores: Wendell Oviedo (They/Them/Elle) & Yonatan Matheus (All pronouns welcome) 

Just Breathe is a workshop where LGBTQIA+ community members can come together to practice mindfulness and meditation skills. In stressful times, community members come together as a collective to heal, connect, and most importantly, just breathe.

Facilitator: Lindsey Hennawi (She/Her)

This group is a safe space for LGBTQIA+ immigrants from different ethnicities and cultures to create self-awareness, and develop positive educational networks. This space offers opportunities for LGBTQIA+ immigrants to socialize and create a sense of unity, in which community members can share resources and personal experiences.

Facilitator: Sunny Ramsingh (Just my name please)

This group is focused on those who identify with both the LGBTQIA+ and disability communities. This space will build pride in disability—destigmatizing and demystifying disability. Community members will be able to create an uplifting and joyful environment, instill pride and a sense of belonging within disability, celebrate disability, learn from one another to create lasting networks, and learn about disability history and culture. 

Facilitator: Liliana Valvano (She/Her)

This discussion group is a space for community members self-identifying on the asexual and/or aromantic spectrum to come together to gain support from one another, and experience connection within the greater LGBTQIA+ community. This space seeks to raise awareness, reduce stigma, share experiences, form a sense of community, provide and receive peer support, and explore concerns around society and identity.

Facilitators: Stella Jendrzejewski (Ze/Zir) & Sunanda Jalote (She/They)

Este grupo de discusión en Español ofrece un espacio enfocado para las personas trans femeninas de formar lazos y apoyarse mutuamente en diferentes ámbitos empoderando el colectivo trans femenino y elevando sus voces en pro de mejorar la calidad de vida.

Facilitadora: Librada Gonzalez (She/Her/Ella)

*** Bring your own yoga mat or towel and wear comfortable clothes ***
This workshop for LGBTQIA+ survivors of trauma and folks with PTSD uses a “bottom up” approach to calm and regulate the nervous system. Trauma-sensitive yoga is an open and inviting practice, where survivors are invited to take part at their own pace, adapting their practice as they need to. It aims to give survivors back a sense of power and control of their own bodies and minds, which is an essential aspect of healing.

Facilitator: Yasmin Harvey (She/Her)

This support group is a peer-facilitated space for transmasculine community members. This group will provide a space for transmasculine people to listen to and support each other through their lives, form community and social circles, as well as to share their experiences, challenges, questions, and vent.

Facilitator: Sam Mateo (He/Him)