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Antonio Pineda is a case manager at Andromeda Health Clinic in northwestern Washington, D.C., where he specializes in helping clients who are living with HIV/AIDS. He is originally from El Salvador and has lived in Washington since 2001. In 2007, he was named the LGBT activist of the year by the Embassy of El Salvador.

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Jose Gutierrez is founder of the Latino GLBT History Project, the DC Latino Pride and co-founder of the Rainbow History Project and Diccion Queer. He worked for seven years as a medical case manager at La Clinica del Pueblo helping clients living with HIV/AIDS. In 2014 he received the Jose Sarria medal of honor from the DC Imperial Court for his multiple contributions to our LGBT community and in 2015 contributted to the book Queer Bown Voices, with an essay entitled ” We must preserve our Latino LGBTQ history”. Currently Jose is pursuing his BS in psychology at the University Ana G. Mendez, in 2014 and 2015 he served as a Latino Commissioner for the Office on Latino Affairs, OLA.

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Laya Monarez is a transgender bisexual latinx artist, musician and transgender activist.  She studied art at the George Washington Corcoran School of Art and Design where she received her BFA in Fine Art focusing on Painting and Sculpture.  Laya has had many art shows through the DMV area and has worked on several murals as well.  Her artwork is inspired by science, surrealism and social justice movements.  Here activism is rooted in her need to uplift transgender people and educate the public on transgender issues.

Laya’s LGBTQ Activism started with her volunteer work with the DC Trans Coalition where she  helped to train police on Trans sensitivity.  While working with the Human Rights Campaign on their membership and operation teams Laya trained new employees on Transgender issues.  Laya has also given presentations at the bisexual Because Conference in Minneapolis, the Capital Building, Princeton University and the White House Among others.  One of her proudest moments is helping to introduce a bill to decrminalize sex work in Washington DC.  A bill she thinks will especially help keep black and brown transgender sex workers safe and healthy.

Please send her an email if you’d like to invite her to speak at your event or train your team on transgender and gender issues.  You can also view her artwork at layamonarez.com

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