TWLM in the News

  • Prevention Experts, Community, Sound Alarm on LA’s Meth Crisis

    Posted by · August 04, 2020 9:41 AM

    "More than 130 health and addiction experts, policy makers, and members of the LGBTQ community in Southern California joined the Zoom meeting to discuss the extent of the meth problem in Los Angeles..."

    Read the full story in The Body (click here).

     

  • Meth Epidemic Getting Worse; Researchers, Community Respond

    Posted by · July 23, 2020 3:15 PM

    "Some public health officials are looking through the intersectional lens of HIV/AIDS, STDs, mental health and substance abuse treatment and prevention, however. And on July 21, Richard Zaldivar, founder and executive director of The Wall Las Memorias, a non-profit LGBTQ Latino-focused community health and wellness organization, brought a number of those top professionals together for the Act Now Against Meth virtual roundtable."

    Read the full story in the LA Blade (click here). 

  • How George Floyd’s Death & COVID-19 Reshaped My Identity as a Gay Latinx Man

    Posted by · June 29, 2020 8:57 PM

    "After meeting two staff members from The Wall Las Memorias Project, I was encouraged to attend the organization’s support group for Latino gay, bi and queer questioning men. I nervously took them up on the invitation, and for the next few months, I began to attend the organization’s bimonthly meetings in its downtown L.A. office."

    Read the full story in The LA Times (click here).