{"id":68800,"date":"2024-09-19T15:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T19:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=68800"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:34:19","slug":"10-11-prof-alvarez-hernandez-event-lgbtqia-latine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/10-11-prof-alvarez-hernandez-event-lgbtqia-latine\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/11: Professor Alvarez-Hernandez Leads Talk on \u201cComing Out\u201d as LGBTQIA+ Latine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/luis-r-alvarez-hernandez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Alvarez-Hernandez, PhD,<\/a> an assistant professor at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), will explore the complexities of \u201ccoming out\u201d for Latine communities at a virtual presentation hosted by BU&#8217;s LGTBTQIA+ Center for Faculty &amp; Staff.<\/p>\n<p>His talk, &#8220;Coming Out and Pushing Forward: Learning From LGBTQIA+ Latines,\u201d is part of the center\u2019s LGBTQIA+ Scholar Series which spotlights topical research and scholarship from BU faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Alvarez-Hernandez will discuss the realities of coming out as an LGTBQIA+ Latine in the current political climate, including the hostility and violence faced by many individuals. He will also explore the ways that the LGTBQIA+ community care for one another and engage in liberation efforts using examples from his research with LGTBQIA+ Latine community leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DATE &amp; TIME:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Friday, October 11, 2024 \u2013 12:30-1:45 pm<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Virtual via Zoom<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DETAILS &amp; REGISTRATION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This event is hosted by the LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty and Staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Learn more about the event and series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thecenter\/programs-services\/scholar-series\/\">here<\/a>.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/luis-r-alvarez-hernandez\/\">Learn about Professor Alvarez Hernandez&#8217;s research<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Alvarez-Hernandez, PhD, an assistant professor at Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW), will explore the complexities of \u201ccoming out\u201d for Latine communities at a virtual presentation hosted by BU&#8217;s LGTBTQIA+ Center for Faculty &amp; Staff. His talk, &#8220;Coming Out and Pushing Forward: Learning From LGBTQIA+ Latines,\u201d is part of the center\u2019s LGBTQIA+ Scholar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14869,"featured_media":68814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7427,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68800"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81592,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68800\/revisions\/81592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}