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Yo Soy Lo Que Soy:Los Experiencias de Los Gay
Inmigrantes de la Bahia de San Francisco
Cross-Cultural, Community-Participatory Filmmaking as a Culminating Experience Project of the SFSU MPH Program
Brad A. VanderbiltSpring 2007
Problem Statement
Gay Latino immigrants face significant challenges related
racism and homophobia which pose important
contextual factors that seriously impact individual and
community health among gay Latino immigrants,
and contribute to significant health disparities
including a disproportionate burden of HIV infection.
Purpose
To highlight, through a documentary film produced in a cross-
cultural, community participatory process, ways
that Bay Area gay-identified Latino immigrants cope with
oppression and to increase awareness of ways gay Latino
immigrants are building on community assets to create a
stronger, more resilient community.
Four Big IdeasSocial/contextual factors influencing individual/community health, and the impact of community engagement on health.
Ways in which process-focused filmmaking within a social-justice framework may contribute to individual/community health.
Challenges/opportunities in community-participatory health education.
Challenges/opportunities in cross-cultural collaboration in health education.
Methods
Formative Research
Community Engagement
Filmmaking
Distribution
Evaluation
Results
Community Showcase
Screenings /Community Forums
Distribution Plan
Process as Product
Yo Soy Lo Que Soy
FindingsParticipants Reported:
Project Created Space to Acknowledge Challenges
Project Created Space to Celebrate Strengths
Project Created Opportunities for Enhanced Social Support, Networks
Project Reflected Respect and Concern for the Community Input
Project Made a Positive Contribution to the Community
Conclusions: we’re all tied together…Cross-Cultural Collaborations for community health are
as challenging as they are rewarding. Aspiring to cultural humility means learning that the best way to step up as a community leader is knowing when to step back.
Community Participatory Health Education Requires An Ability to Let Go, Have Faith and Breathe. And it calls us to explore more deeply the ethical nuances of professional work on very personal issues in communities in which we have deep and extensive connections.
Social and Contextual factors have a profound impact on the health of individual and communities, both for good and for ill. To encourage the good, and stem the bad, requires hard work up-stream and down.
Process-focused filmmaking can make a powerful contribution to community health by creating an enduring document of the struggle to find community-based solutions to cope with and counter structural factors negatively impacting health.
Personal Reflections Intersectionality, Overlapping Communities
Many Hats, Many Roles
CBPR: this time, it’s personal
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Yo Soy Lo Que Soy:Los Experiencias de Los Gay Inmigrantes
de la Bahia de San Francisco
<<Insert quick-time film trailer here>>
Besos+AbrazosSOMOS CAB Members, “The Principals” + The April 7th Shoot Team
Members of AGUILAS, GELAAM, Hermanos + ProLatino
Rafael Diaz + the César Chavez Institute
Lisa Moore, José Ramon Fernandez-Peña + Rachel Poulin
Raging Stallion Studios, Michael Brandon + Kent Taylor
SF LGBT Center + DeFrank Center (SJ)
Roma Guy, Vivian Chavez,
Café Flore, Jamie Awad, Club Papi + Gloria Trevi
Jose Carlos, Carlos, Carlos Alfredo, Alfredo, Alfredo,
Nelson, Jesus, Rodrigo, Robert + Omar
Andy, Erin, Ben, Jorge, Dani, Ernesto, Chris, Garza, Mama Dora, Giselle, Trauma Flintstone, Tom Orr, Jaqueline La Cubana, Mercedes Monroe
the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, the Love Shack,
Samer, Roudi, Tarek, Tarek, Saed + Ghassan
Injeanious, Rock Hard, Rythmo Latino, Eros, Nickel Spa
CIN527, Vicky+Liliana, MPH Cohort 2007
Mom&Dad, TT&G, Penny, Naomi&Dan + Jean Drolet