Throughout his life, Samantha Flores He has worked in the area of public relations and in activism in favor of the population LGBTQ+ and heterosexual, proof of this is the day house Happy Life that welcomes elderly people.
“I always get asked about the transition. I woke up one day like Vicente Flores and to the other as Samantha Flores. I didn’t think about femininity or anything, I just accepted that I was an effeminate gay boy. I never had any problems with it. bullyingis family members, “I even had it at work,” the trans activist mentioned in an interview with this media outlet.
“The elderly LGBTQ has no support. I thought about creating a place where we could live together, a hostel would be impossible because it would be very expensive. A day house was easier because it opens on weekends. That is the idea of Happy Lifethat’s why it’s called that.
“It has had good results and at least a third of those who go are heterosexual. We meet on Saturday afternoons, We hold gatherings, we host meals, and we are lucky that people offer us free workshops that are instructive,” Flores shared.
Throughout her life, Samantha has faced the question of being trans when the term was not familiar. She captures all of this in her book Between Blue and Good Night.
“I didn’t think about the total change, it was really a realization of what I had already mentally programmed. As I felt good I was still the same but now as Samantha Flores. All I did was grow my hair out.
“Everything came, everything arrived… Thanks to a very important person like Xochitl (called the queen of homosexuals), she was crazy,” he recalled.
SUPPORT FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Antoine Rodriguez, a professor at the University of Lille, encouraged Samantha to write her memoirs, which amounted to more than 40 hours of recordings.
“The work began and I didn’t ask any questions and let it flow anachronistically and then put it in order. SAlways respecting what he said; she had no intention of writing her story, while I did not want to do a job like the academics who write for some people,” he added.
In those lines, Flores thanked her parents who accepted her from birth with education and they set her free.
“I didn’t lack anything to live, I had wonderful parents. My father was a worker and he studied until the fourth grade of primary school. He never hit us. I think that out of love he said: ‘I have to help him get ahead because life is going to be difficult.’
“In past decades everything was more closed and he had to face a lot of criticism because of me, we never touched on the subject, there was never a reproach. My parents let me be.
“Everyone has their own situation. What I could say to my little brothers and sisters is to be happy,” he concluded.
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