HUG Interview with Alvaro Luna of HIM
headsupguys.orgAlvaro Luna is a Latino queer counsellor and psychotherapist, as well as the mental health program specialist at Health Initiative for Men – HIM, an organization dedicated to strengthening the well-being of queer men and gender diverse people through tailored mental, sexual, social and physical health programming.
You can check out their mental health programming at www.checkhimout.ca/mind, where you’ll find information about counselling, queer men’s health, and queer competent counsellors.“Most queer men (GBQT) experience discrimination and marginalization for being queer.
From a young age, those who express femininity or feelings of attraction to the same sex tend to be ridiculed, and receive constant messages telling them there is something fundamentally wrong with them (as they don’t adhere to expected masculinity standards and heterosexuality).
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