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title: "The Latino LGBTQ Population — #1 Medical Spanish eLearning | Canopy Innovations"
description: "Latino/as* (a.k.a, \"Latinxs\" or \"Latin@s\") have a long and rich history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) activism. Early movement pioneers include  José Julio Sarria , the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States;&nbsp"
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# [The Latino LGBTQ Population — #1 Medical Spanish eLearning | Canopy Innovations](https://blog.withcanopy.com/blog-list/the-latino-lgbtq-population)

 Written by [Anny Zhang](https://blog.withcanopy.com/author/anny-zhang) | Jun 4, 2018 4:00:00 AM

Latino/as* (a.k.a, "Latinxs" or "Latin@s") have a long and rich history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) activism. Early movement pioneers include [José Julio Sarria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Sarria), the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States; [Sylvia Rivera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Rivera), a bisexual and transgender rights activist often credited with starting the Stonewall Riots; and [Gloria Anzaldúa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_E._Anzald%C3%BAa), a noted scholar of Chicano history and lesbian rights advocate. That activist spirit continues today in the work of people such as [Raffi Freedman-Gurspan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffi_Freedman-Gurspan), the first openly transgender person to work in the White House.

According to the [Pew Research Center](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/25/u-s-hispanic-population-growth-surge-cools/), Latino/as made up 17.4 percent of the total U.S. population in 2014. Data analysis by the [Williams Institute](http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/census-lgbt-demographics-studies/lgbt-latino-oct-2013/) reveals there are approximately 1.4 million LGBT Latino/a adults currently living in the United States. Of the 146,000 Latino/a same-sex households in the U.S., 29.1 percent are raising children.

LGBTQ Latino/as tend to live in areas where there are already high concentrations of Latino/a people. One-third of same-sex Latino/a couples live in New Mexico, California and Texas. Other states with high LGBTQ Latino/a populations include Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, New Jersey, Kansas, Florida, New York and Washington, D.C. Notably, many of these states lack statewide non-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Source: [Human Rights Campaign](https://www.hrc.org/)

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