Steven Grattan

Reporter

Steven Grattan is a freelance journalist based in Colombia.

Steven Grattan is a freelance journalist from Northern Ireland based in Bogota, Colombia since 2013. He covers migration, human rights, LGBTQ issues and general news and politics.

Samantha Flores, a trans woman, stands at the entrance to the Vida Alegre, a day center for older LGBTQ people in Mexico City that she cofounded.

This senior center is helping Mexico’s ‘invisible’ LGBTQ seniors

November 27, 2019LGBTQ

The center, called Vida Alegre, Spanish for Happy Life, was founded just over a year ago by Samantha Flores, an 87-year-old transgender woman. Nothing similar exists in the country.