MEXICO: Samantha Flores (14 images)

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  • 2015 - Old photographs of Samantha, at age 5, with her older brother Sergio and at age 20 with her friend Rocio. Samantha Flores is an 83-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2015 - Samantha is accompanied to her baptism by close friends and her godfather at the 'Sagrada Familia church' in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 83-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2012 – Samantha celebrates her 80th birthday with close friends in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 80-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2012 - Samantha celebrates her 80th birthday with close friends in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 80-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2013 - Samantha celebrates her 81st birthday with close friends in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 81-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2012 - Samantha celebrates her 80th birthday with close friends in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 80-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2013 - Samantha practices her daily yoga in her bedroom in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 81-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2012 - Portrait of Samantha in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 80-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2012 - Samantha makes up and wears a traditional Tehuana dress to celebrate the Gay Pride Day in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 80-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2012 - Samantha talks at a human rights meeting in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 80-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2012 - Samantha dances at a nightclub in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 80-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2013 - Samantha gives a talk about the non-profit organization “Laetus Viate”, being gay and growing older in “El Taller”, a gay bar in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 81-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

  • 2015 - Samantha celebrates her baptism at her friend Tico's house, along with other close friends in Mexico City. Samantha Flores is an 83-year-old transgender woman from Veracruz, Mexico. She is a prominent social activist for LGBTQI rights and is the founder of the non-profit organization “Laetus Vitae”, a day shelter for elderly gay people in Mexico City. Senior citizens in general are many times prone to neglect and abandonment by their families, leaving them all but invisible. Their plight can be even worse if they are homosexual. Photo credit: Bénédicte Desrus

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