Finding The LGBTQ+ Community: A Rainbow Labs’ Student Story

With this summer’s Olympics Tokyo Games 2020, and the recent win for the U.S. in the Women’s soccer tournament, we got to talk with former two-time Olympic gold medalist, Angela Hucles Mangano, all about soccer, the Olympics, and her LGBTQ+ identity.

“Family,” a word that carries an immense amount of weight in our hearts, minds, and communities. No family is quite the same, but we still manage to relate at our core. I was able to sit down with Ruth Campos and Emma Coto, two amazing parents involved within our One Bold Summer program, and see what it means to them to have an LGBTQ+ family.

One of the reasons why I joined Rainbow Labs was to be a part of something that changed the narrative of what it means to be LGBTQ+. The LGBTQ+ mentor programs in existence heavily focus on LGBTQ+ identity – which is great in many ways, but when you are working with LGBTQ+ youth it’s sometimes nice to help them explore other aspects of identity.