Comments on: Watkins: Gay Latino Americans are ‘coming of age’

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:06:11 +0000

Bad story. Latinos are more than just Catholic and homophobic. Latinos are also Mormon (like me), JW’s, evangelicals, and Episcopalians, plus belonging to many other religions.

Plus, I’ve known many straight Latinos who are not homophobic.

Next time 365gay wants to do a story about Latino/as, ask a Latino/a to do it first.

Also, why are we using Perez Hilton as a rep. for LGBT Latino/as? There are many others that are better examples.

By: michaelnDallas

michaelnDallas — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:10:22 +0000

why do people find the need to anoint people spokesmodels of out community or any community. Perez Hilton has not attempted to do so.

By: Ramón

Ramón — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:37:00 +0000

“The Latino community is often known for being devout Catholics and has had a reputation for being largely homophobic.” – What tripe! What an utter poor excuse for reporting!
Selena WATKINS is guilty of making the same generalizations about Latinos that people who haven’t bothered to learn about us make.
I hope that her writing skills improve when she enters the eighth grade.

By: David Carltock

David Carltock — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:49:19 +0000

Guillermo Diaz is a better example for gay Latinos – he’s smart, talented, sexy and unapologetic about his sexual orientation.

By: Bill Gainous

Bill Gainous — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:26:57 +0000

If Perez is the best example of a gay Latino around, no wonder so many want to stay in the closet. Hopefully someone with a sense of decency will step up to the plate and take over that role.