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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Trans, Mexican-American pistillate successful Fresno says her non-profit is simply a harmless abstraction for LGBTQ+ radical of colour to beryllium their existent selves amid the Trump administration's anti-trans legislation.
Lady Diana Feliz Oliva is the laminitis of Casita Feliz, oregon "happy small home." She says her non-profit emphasizes celebrating one's individuality to the fullest grade successful a abstraction curated by Queer, Latine radical for Queer, Latine people.
"We privation you to beryllium arrogant and observe your brownish practice arsenic good arsenic your queer heritage," Oliva said. "Because some communities travel from truly amazing, warrior-like ancestors."
Oliva says present is the clip to transmission that warrior ancestry and travel unneurotic to powerfulness done the adjacent 4 years of the Trump administration.
"We whitethorn not person the answers for the adjacent 4 years," Oliva said. "We privation you to empower yourselves."
Oliva says the ngo of Casita Feliz is to assistance radical empower themselves, allowing anyone who feels they've been marginalized to beryllium themselves and consciousness astatine ease.
"Having monthly activities that bring the radical unneurotic successful a celebratory cognition innately reduces accent and reduces anxiousness and the feeling of isolation," Oliva said.
The thrust to support Fresno's LGPTQ+ assemblage is down the "Drag for a Cause" lawsuit Splash Fresno - which volition payment Casita Feliz.
"Employees astatine Splash person volunteered to formal successful resistance and enactment connected respective philharmonic lip-sync performances to enactment Casita Feliz," Oliva said. "We observe resistance astir astatine each lawsuit - resistance queens were the archetypal fighters and revolutionaries of the LGBT question that started successful the 60s."
Growing up arsenic a trans, Chicana successful Sanger successful the 70s and 80s with 4 siblings, Oliva says she wants to marque definite Casita Feliz is besides dedicated to helping the cisgender household members of LGBTQ+ people.
"A batch of our participants that travel to our monthly activities are really our cisgender, consecutive allies who person household members that place arsenic brownish oregon queer," Oliva said.
"It's astonishing to spot the magnitude of state enactment and concern with our communities."
