Honoring LGBTQIA+ Puerto Ricans.
Empowering communities through history and education.
Honoring LGBTQIA+ Puerto Ricans.
Empowering communities through history and education.
2025: Archival Partnership with EL CENTRO AT Hunter CollEGE
Credit: Carlos Ortiz. People holding up the flag during the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives, CUNY.
The Pato Project is proud to partner with CENTRO—The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY—to preserve and archive the stories of Puerto Rico’s LGBTQIA+ community. Together, we are building the Historias LGBTQIA+ Boricuas Collection, a permanent archive that ensures our narratives are accessible to future generations, educators, and researchers. This partnership affirms the historical value of queer Puerto Rican lives—and places them exactly where they belong: at the heart of our national memory.
2025: our SECOND story academy X The Generations PRoject
On 22 February 2025, we supported The Generations Project's Las Tres Pandemias—a live storytelling workshop and show at El Refugio in Río Piedras. Local LGBTQIA+ voices shared powerful reflections on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and gentrification, creating space for healing and preserving our collective memory. These stories now live in a growing oral history archive.
