To many people in the LGBTQ community, Julio Rivera is known as the man whose murder galvanized

the neighborhood of Jackson Heights Queens to fight for equality and acceptance.

Hello, I hope you are well. In today's episode, I talked to you about a crime

occurred in the New York City in 1990. That year, the violent death of a young Puerto Riqueño

provoked that the LGBTQ community was united to demand justice before a hour of crimes

against its community that for years had been impunished. The community of Jackson Heights

in Queens today is one of the most culturally diverse in all the United States. However,

in 1990, things were very different. Not everyone was welcome. At that time, the pandemic

of the city in all the city of New York. The fear and incomprehension that there was

because of that disease became especially against the members of the LGBTQ community that

was the most devastating by the virus and due to its consequences, due to the demonization

of the sick people, many supported violence against homosexuals, especially

the politicians and the religious activists who saw homosexuals as if they were a plague.

The area to the LGBTQ community in Jackson Heights was a very well-known area of crossing

gay. For the reason, if you hated homosexuals and wanted to hit one, it is the place where you

go. Perhaps this is something inconceivable to you, but at that time, not so far, it was

something quite normal. Julio Rivera was a young gay from Padres Puerto Rican who was born

in the Bronx in 1961. Julio was born in the project of the Republic of the Bronx and during

his adolescence, he suffered from a mofobico, while he was at school. This situation

provoked abandoning his studies in the seventh grade. Julio was known as Manhattan during

his adolescence and there he met a series of major men with a lot of money, which

introduced him to the world of theater, the kitchen gourmet, the high quality wine, the

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