Different

Natalia Sandoval Velazquez, Joseph Ito, Audrey Romo, Davis Taylor, and Ashlynn Fragoso

11th Grade

Los Alamitos High School

Orange County

This entry steps into the territory of being homosexual in a Latin American household. It follows the narration of this young man dealing with the expectations young men specially latinos are meant to follow. In Latin America it is huge to be “the man” and to make your family and blood line proud, but when you are gay, in the perspective of some of these men, those expectations crumble and really take a toll on one’s mental health.