5 Drag Houses Providing Sanctuary For Queer Latines

It’s this inclusivity that made La Choloteca a welcoming space for Geexella, who moved to Atlanta last November from Jacksonville, Florida. They’d started their own party, Duval Folx, in 2018, with the examples of La Choloteca and Papi Juice (NYC) in mind. “We needed a queer space, an accessible space,” they say. “We needed to come together to feel joy with each other.” Through Duval Folx, Geexella raised funds for community members’ gender affirmation needs, sent an activist collective to a California conference, and elevated the stories of people killed by police violence.