Diego Garcia Blum is the Program Director for the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work is dedicated to advocating for the safety and acceptance of LGBTQI+ individuals globally, particularly in regions where they face significant risks.
Before dedicating his work to politics and queer rights, Diego made every immigrant’s parents proud by becoming a nuclear engineer. Yet he knew that was not enough and his life at that time wasn’t true to who he was. Today we will be talking about what it was like for him to come out as a gay man while growing up in an immigrant household and attending evangelical churches, the suicide ideation his experienced, and of course.. Dating.
Identities: Latino, queer, gay man, first gen
Profession: human rights, social justice
Themes: protests, stereotypes, the "only" Black person
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Diego Garcia Blum is the Program Director for the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His work is dedicated to advocating for the safety and acceptance of LGBTQI+ individuals globally, particularly in regions where they face significant risks.
Before dedicating his work to politics and queer rights, Diego made every immigrant’s parents proud by becoming a nuclear engineer. Yet he knew that was not enough and his life at that time wasn’t true to who he was. Today we will be talking about what it was like for him to come out as a gay man while growing up in an immigrant household and attending evangelical churches, the suicide ideation his experienced, and of course.. Dating.
Identities: Latino, queer, gay man, first gen
Profession: human rights, social justice
Themes: protests, stereotypes, the "only" Black person
Media: