2009 Courage Award

Congratulations to Francisco (Frank) Armenta, 20, REACH LA’s own Ovahness Leader, who received the 2009 Courage Award by the Colin Higgins Foundation. Frank was honored at the Trevor Project Gala in New York City.

Battling homophobia on a daily basis in East Los Angeles, Frank's experience fueled him to become an activist, spanning from collaborating with the GSA to design a new web-based campaign, ”Be An Ally”, to support gay youth at his predominantly Latino high school, to becoming the youngest certified HIV Counselor and Tester in LA county.

Frank works at REACH LA as a Social Enterprise Assistant and Peer Health Counselor, and continues to fuse his passion for graphic art design with his activism by creating all the electronic and print media for the Ovahness program serving queer young men of color.

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