Among the things endangered by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the New Jalisco Bar in downtown Los Angeles. As my colleague Andrea Castillo notes in her Column One story from Monday, the New Jalisco Bar is more than just a watering hole. “We have to recognize that this is a gay bar,” Hernandez said. Since then, New Jalisco bar has been a refuge for the Latinx LGBTQ community, a “jotería space,” as Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., an assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano studies at Cal State Fullerton, puts it. “Everyone there is like your gay uncle.”Newsletter The Latinx experience chronicled Get the Latinx Files newsletter for stories that capture the multitudes within our communities.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 18, 2021 15:56 UTC