Latina Transgender Advocate Bamby Salcedo on Youth and HIV/AIDS Prevention and Education
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 2:05pm
by Danny Heffernan, GLAAD's Advertising & Campaigns Fellow
http://www.glaad.org/blog/latina-transgender-advocate-bamby-salcedo-youth-and-hivaids-prevention-and-education (http://www.glaad.org/blog/latina-transgender-advocate-bamby-salcedo-youth-and-hivaids-prevention-and-education)
As part of our support for the media coverage around Chaz Bono's casting on "Danci ng with the Stars" and an increasing amount of transgender-specific coverage in general, GLAAD is continuing to profile prominent transgender advocates and members of the community on a weekly basis. Previously, we spoke with Laverne Cox, Jamison Green, Ph.D., Stephanie Battaglino and Mari Rosenberger, and Noah Lewis. This week, we talked to Bamby Salcedo about her advocacy work with transgender youth and those affected by HIV/AIDS.
As an advocate, Bamby has been involved with several organizations over the years. After being diagnosed as HIV positive more than 15 years ago, Bamby joined the Los Angeles-based Latino AIDS advocacy group, Bienstar Human Services, where she worked as a staff member for six years. She has since been serving as a board member for the national Latino/a human rights organization, Unid@s LGBT, and the National Youth Advocacy Coalition (NYAC). Bamby also runs the Coalición Trans-Latina, a group of transgender Latin@ leaders from around the country working to address and advocate for the needs of trans Latin@s living in the United States. The group, which was formed in 2009, works particularly close with those who are monolingual Spanish speaking. In her own words, Bamby said the group "is working very hard to make sure that our issues are heard and to let the world know that we do exist."