Latinos in the Deep South, a program coordinated by the Latino Commission on AIDS, will host a workshop on the impact of HIV criminalization on emerging Latino communities in the Deep South on August 13, 2013, at 2 PM. CHLP's Legal Director, Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, will address the legal needs of HIV-affected Latinos at the intersection of the criminal justice and immigration systems.
LGBT and HIV-affected immigrants experience significant abuse in immigration detention facilities and deprivation of legal protections, according to El Diario/La Prensa.
CHLP's Legal Director, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, will be conducting a workshop at the National LGBT Bar Association's Lavender Law Conference focusing on the rights of LGBT and HIV-affected people at the intersection of immigration and criminal justice systems.
CHLP's Legal Director, Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, will be conducting a workshop in Spanish at the National LGBT Bar Association's Lavender Law Conference focusing on serving Spanish-speaking clients and communities.
Gay men can face a uniquely intense form of persecution in Jamaica. Homophobia and ignorance about HIV are reflected in, and compounded by, the widely-held perception of gay men as vectors of disease. Gay men are presumed to be HIV positive and treated as dangerous to be around regardless of their actual HIV status.
U.S. appeals court rejects finding that HIV renders prostitution a "particularly serious crime" warranting deportation of transgender Latina immigrant.
Bayard Rustin posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Queens Pride House will host a workshop on police confiscation and criminalization of condoms on August 13, 2013 at 6 PM. CHLP's Legal Director, Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, will discuss how this practice undermines HIV advocacy efforts, and results in the overcriminalization of women of color, immigrants, and transgender individuals.