Our Collaborations

This is a 2014 recording of an interview on CAN TV of Pedro A. Serrano, CQL Co-Founder, and ULP Co-Founder, Karari Olvera about the establishment of 'United Latino Pride' unitedlatinxpride.org. We share this video to showcase our early beginnings in Latine LGBTQ+ Chicago-based organizing.

Pedro A. Serrano and Danny Olvera of United Latino Pride discuss the organization's work in Chicago and the surrounding area. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).

In 2020, we co-developed this digitally illustrated video between youth, artists and public health scholar-practitioners to leverage the arts to share messages of hope over social media during the 1st year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The video was accompanied by a digital illustration campaign that shared practical tips for self-care, dating and safer sex. This work was presented at the 2021 National LGBTQ Health Conference.

In 2021, we began holding relationship and research strategy sessions between creative designers, community health practitioners, and academic researchers in order to prepare for future partnership, planning, and pilot awards in the area of Latine health disparities and health promotion. This work was presented at a forum of the Third Coast Center for AIDS Research, and the 2021 United States Conference on HIV/AIDS.

In 2022, we conducted a community listening tour wherein we visited with multiple Latine serving HIV community-based organizations to consult on current pilot research awards, as well as consider future directions for community-led research initiatives. This work was presented at the 2022 Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit.

Across 2021-2022, the CQL Collaborators partnered with Association of Latina/os Motivating Action (ALMA) and Northwestern University to co-produce the ALMA "CREATES " art fellowship program for Queer Latine youth in the Chicagoland area.

Four youth were funded to create an art project that reflects a social issue they are passionate about, and to discuss its impacts on the Latine LGBTQ+ community.

Summer 2022: During the summer of 2022, we created content to address the emergent mpox outbreak and promote vaccination for mpox.

Winter 2023: During the winter of 2023, we released content for the PrEPárate campaign that focused on navigating intimacy from the perspective of Latine LGBTQ+ youth.

2024-2028. We are collaborating with San Francisco State University on the "Hermanos de Luna y Sol," a research study of a community-based HIV prevention intervention.

2024-2028. We are collaborating with Northwestern University on the "Hermanos de Luna y Sol," a research study of medical mistrust among Latinx sexual and gender minorities in Chicago, IL.

2024. We are collaborating with the University of Chicago on the "Leveraging Social Networks to Promote PrEP among Young Latino Sexual Minority Men," a research study of using social networks to promote PrEP among Latinx sexual minority men in Chicago, IL.