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Join us next week at The LGBT Center OC

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We have changed our meeting times from Sundays to WEDNESDAYS at 7pm! Join us tomorrow at The Center OC located at 1605 N Spurgeon St, Santa Ana, CA. For more questions about the organization please email us at [email protected]

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TransVisible: Bamby's Story - Documentary Film Teaser - Compressed.mov

Join DeColores Queer Orange County, We’re excited to be partnering with the Long Beach QFilm Festival in TRANSVISIBLE: BAMBY SALCEDO’S STORY  as part of the upcoming 2014 Festival. TRANSVISIBLE is a documentary feature on the life of renowned Los Angeles-based Trans Latina Activist and leader, Bamby Salcedo. TRANSVISIBLE: BAMBY SALCEDO’S STORY will be showing at the Art Theatre (next door to the LGBTQ Center Long Beach) on Sun, Sep 14th at 12:30pm.  Join us before the film @11:30am  The LGBTQ Center of Long Beach invites you to a free Sunday brunch – pre reception for the screening of Transvisible. All who attend will be treated to a delicious brunch.  Come early to enjoy a bite before this film. Free admission with your Transvisible film ticket. Tickets are available at http://qfilmslongbeach.com/ We hope to see you there! FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1495388357365900

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Join us DeColores Queer Orange County for our 5th Annual Community Conference! The theme for this year's conference is "Redefining Mi Familia: Re-membering our histories, bodies, and communities."  As a community we aim to redefine "famiia" and what that looks like for Queer and Trans Folks of Color. We are re-membering parts of us that have been fragmented (i.e. our histories, bodies, and communities) in order to be whole again and no longer compromise who we are.  This event is completely FREE to the community. We have confirmed amazing workshops and performances. This year our Keynote Presentation will be facilitated by Transgeneros En Accion, an amazing Trans Latin@ group that is based in Santa Ana, CA. 

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Our Farewell to our beloved friend Zoraida "Ale" Reyes

We invite all friends, family, and community of Zoraida "Ale" Reyes to her Farewell Funeral Services. Thank you all that attended the vigil last Friday. Now, we invite everyone to unite again to say our good-byes to our beautiful sister Zoraida. Please note that the Viewing and the Mass are two different days and thedetails are listed below. The date and address listed in the location section of this page is for the Sunday viewing only. Please see ALL details below: 

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Viewing/Velorio: Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014 Time: 4-8pm  Location: Brown Colonial Mortuary  Address: 204 W. 17th St. Santa Ana, CA 92706 **The rosary will start at 6:30pm El rosario empezara a las 6:30pm Monday Mass/Misa Date: Monday, June 23, 2014 Time: 10-10:45am Location: Nuestra Señora del Pilar  Address: 1622 W. 6th St.  Santa Ana, CA 92703 The funeral will follow after mass. El funeral seguira despues de misa. Time: 11:15am Location: The Santa Ana Cementary 1919 E. Santa Clara Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92705 There will be a Community Food Convivio at El Centro Cultural de Mexico from 12pm-2pm after the funeral. We will come together to break bread and enjoy food, aguas frescas, and music. Join us. 313 N. Birch St., Santa Ana, CA 92701. *** You can still donate to : http://www.gofundme.com/Zoraida Her family and friends are grateful for all of the on-line and in person donations. Any funds left will be given to her family and/or put into a fund that will be created in honor of Zoraida Reyes.

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Click here to support Zoraida's Funeral Fund

UPDATE: Please know that this fund was created by me "Luis Ramirez" but none of this money is coming to me personally. All the funds are being handle as a collective (close friends/activist that knew zoraida for many years) and we are being very transparent, we will definitely release the inform...

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A Official Statement from DeColores Queer Orange County.

On Tuesday May 27, 2014 at 8:00am DeColores Queer Orange County along with the national organization, FAMILIA: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, participated in a civil disobedience in front of the Santa Ana Jail; blocking traffic on the corner of Civic Center Drive & Boyd. This act of civil disobedience was in response to the over 2 million deportations that continue to occur under the Obama administration as well as the injustices that our Queer and Trans family face inside detention centers and GBT pods. These pods are supposed to protect them from harm and harassment yet often expose them to those same abuses from the jail’s own staff. Since Obama has stated that his views on LGBT issues have evolved, we came together to demand that Obama stop all deportations that are breaking up families and communities. These deportations have affected us personally as well as our families. We want Obama and his administration to know that our issues go beyond same sex marriage; we demand the human rights that have been denied to our communities. We demand that the criminalization of Queer and Trans folk cease, and we demand an end to the profitable contract that the Santa Ana Jail has with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE).

That same community, composed of Queer, Trans, Undocumented, documented and mixed status individuals, collectively made this action a product of unity, visibility, and community building. We take a strong stance against a broken immigration system and the prison industrial complex. We understand that these systems of oppression affect our communities through ALL of Orange County.

Moving forward, DeColores Queer Orange County will continue coalition building and engage in necessary conversations in order for these demands to be met. Thanks familia for all of your love and support. If you would like to get involved with DeColores Queer Orange County, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

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On May 27, 2014  various immigrant and LGBTQ rights organizations will come together to bring visibility to the inhumane conditions LGBTQ people face in detention centers. This will place in Downtown Santa Ana We hope you join us in this rally as we continue the demand to end all deportations of queer and trans immigrants!

More info to come

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/578437568938241/

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HOMEBOY (Trailer) (by DINOXDINCO)

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DCQOC Invites you to Watch Homeboy @ QFilms

DeColores Queer Orange County Invites you to join us at the QFilms Festival, for the screening of HOMEBOY Benefiting Long Beach Gay & Lesbian Center on Sunday Sept. 8, 2013 | 1:00 pm | Art Theatre Long Beach | $12 Buy Tickets at http://www.tunestub.com/event.cfm?id=119716&showTimingID=119716 Homeboy Directed by Dino Dinco “Homeboy” examines the lives of several gay Latino men living in and around Los Angeles who are former gang members. Ranging in age from early-20′s to mid-40′s, most of these men entered gangs while in their early teenage years. This is a story of their individual journeys. Includes an interview with Luis J. Rodriguez, poet, activist and author of the bestselling memoir, ‘Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in LA’. Hope to see you all there! DeColores Queer Orange County

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Check Check Check it outttttt!!! Tortilla Power Real Talk: 3 Question Interview with Bamby Salcedo @ Decolores Confrence

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Bamby Salcedo was our keynote speaker for this year's DeColores Queer Orange County Community Conference. Gracias Bamby! y gracias Tortilla Power for documenting hxstory.

"educate yourself, educate the world"

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“Yo no me voy a morir porque soy una chamana y nosotros no nos morimos, nosotros trascendemos.” - Chavela Vargas (1919 - 2012)

R.I.P. You lived a beautiful life, and you are and will always be one of the most beautiful souls to grace planet Earth.

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DeColores Queer OC NEEDS VOLUNTEERS

Hello beautiful familia! 

We will be needing volunteers to help the day of "Queer in My Own way: Owning our Joteria in Orange County" Community Conference this SATURDAY, August 4th 2012 @ El Centro Cultural de Mexico 313 Birch St. Santa Ana, CA

5 volunteers needed for each shift: 1st Shift: 7am-12pm 2nd Shift: 12pm-4:30pm

If interested and are available for either of the two shifts, please email [email protected] or send us a Facebook or Tumblr message. Thank you!

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Invite the family! Invita la familia! We will have workshops in Spanish for parents and family of the Latin@ Queer community.

More info on the conference on event page.

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We encourage you to bring your family! We will have workshops in Spanish for parents and family of the Latin@ Queer community.

More info on the conference on event page.