L.A. Taco featured TurnOut in a recent article about East L.A.’s Queer Mercado, a monthly event which highlights queer vendors and raises funds for a local public school. We’re honored to be featured and to be a part of this powerful community event!

Check out what TurnOut’s Programs Associate Bri Ginyard had to say about the event below:

The vendors were also community organizations providing attendees information, resources, ways to volunteer and support the local LGBTQ community.

Bri Ginyard, who tabled that day, is a program associate with Turn Out, a non-profit that connects volunteers to help staff local LGBTQ-related events. Ginyard wishes spaces like these were available to them when they explored their own queer identity as a young person. 

“A lot of the queer events that I went through were in the nightlife scene at a very young age, which probably wasn’t the safest for me to be in,” said Ginyard. “I really like that [this is] a safe space for especially queer youth and queer folks that are now entrepreneurs. We’re thriving, and we’re out here. We’re just like everybody else.”

 Read the full article here.