Broken Promises in Puerto Rico

Public degradation of LGBT community continues in Puerto Rico.
This is specifically relevant to this blog because of the reference in Queer Latinidad by Juana Rodriguez to the disproportionate number of Puerto Rican immigrants and natives that were infected with HIV in the epidemic. Some of the reasons of the reasons for this can be attributed to the discrimination and blame the LGBT Puerto Ricans experience in their own culture.

http://www.glaad.org/blog/vow-twice-broken-puerto-rican-show-promotes-anti-lgbt-messages-again

The article above shows the public degradation of LGBT community that continues in Puerto Rico even after a very public promise to change these ways, which an be read here:

http://www.glaad.org/2010/12/07/tv-station-creates-new-procedures-agrees-to-glaad-trainings-after-anti-gay-remarks-about-ricky-martin#

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