Kikis with Louie: YouTube promotes Sexual and Reproductive Health for LGBTQ

Kikis with Louie: YouTube promotes Sexual and Reproductive Health for LGBTQ

Story by Karina Moreno Bueno, T'21 “Kiki with Louie” is a new YouTube show meant to provide sexual and reproductive health to LGBTQ. Advocates for Youth, a national nonprofit that focuses on SRH rights, is helping provide this YouTube show. “Kiki” is a term used by the Queer community as a word for a conversational get-together with friends in which there might be gossip, politics, and/or advice. The show is based on the Youth Director for Advocates for Youth, Louie Ortiz has kikis with “young activists from the LGBTQ community”. Many of the guests include trans actors/actresses, musicians, and other youth from the LGBTQ community, among others. Louie and guests discuss dating, sexual health, consent, contraceptives, among other things that are pertinent for SRH education. Ortiz says that he is really excited to see the impact that this show will have on LGBTQ youth’s knowledge on reproductive health since much of the available sex education doesn’t focus on LGBTQ. Ortiz brings up...
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Reproductive Health Victories

Reproductive Health Victories

This week has seen an onslaught of negative health news from the United States and around the world. Crisis pregnancy centers in the United States are now allowed to withhold legally available medical options, women in Guam no longer have access to abortion services, and we continue to see daily impacts from the reinstatement of the global gag rule and hear reports of lack of access to reproductive health services from women in refugee camps. It’s easy to get depressed from the seemingly impenetrable amount of work that needs to be done to protect the health and human rights of people around the world. But that’s exactly what we need to do. We need to dig deep, understand the depth of the problems, and develop new partnerships and solutions. I’d like to highlight some exciting news from this past week of just that: people digging deep and developing new solutions to positively impact the health and rights of people across the world. Preventing...
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LGBTQ Rights are Reproductive Rights

LGBTQ Rights are Reproductive Rights

If April showers bring May flowers, what do May flowers bring? June rainbows! Each June in the United States, individuals across the nation join in celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month, a time marked by celebration, protest, activism, and, of course, the bright rainbow Pride flag. The tradition was born out of the 1970 Gay Pride March, which took place in New York City to commemorate the Stonewall uprising. As the LGBTQ movement grew, so did Pride marches and within a few years, this form of political protest had spread across the United States, eventually expanding from a single march to a month of events for all LGBTQ people. Over the years, Pride has shifted from primarily a political protest, to a more celebratory occasion. The increasing sociocultural acceptance of LGBTQ people and same-sex relationships has played a role in this shift, and the recent Supreme Court decision in favor of marriage equality is undoubtedly worth celebrating. Yet queer communities certainly remain marginalized...
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