Every year Bienestar Human Services, inc. hosts a pageant to empower the Latina Transgender community.

Through this pageant, the most common concerns impacting the health and well-being of Latina Transgender women are exposed via the question and answer period and HIV/AIDS knowledge session.

HIV/AIDS prevention and care continue to be pertinent issues to the Transgender community.

This year’s theme is “Miss Bienestar 2007: Educación y Movilización Es TU Misión/Education and Mobilization is TU’s Mission” and will take place

October 22nd, 2007

at Arena Night Club

(6655 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038) from 7:00pm– 12 AM.

“Transgeneros Unidas” (TU) program was created by BIENESTAR in 1997 to nurture the leadership development of the growing Transgender community and reduce their risk of HIV/AIDS through education and preventive services.

The Miss Bienestar Pageant empowers the Latina Transgender community by creating positive role models to represent their unique concerns, while simultaneously raising HIV/AIDS awareness, organizing and mobilizing.

Miss Bienestar accomplishes this by:

1) Educating Transgender Latinas about HIV/AIDS

2) Building self confidence

3) Educating participants about the power of the media

4) Encouraging new leaders to take advocate roles in their communities

We invite you to sponsor our 2007 Miss Bienestar Pageant. General tickets are sold for $12.00 per person and VIP tickets are sold for $50 per person. The VIP ticket includes a table and chair in the VIP lounge area and also a VIP buffet from 6 to 8pm.

In case you are interested in buying tickets, please contact :

Alex Goncalvez , Assistant Regional Director at

323-660-9680 or agoncalvez@bienestar.org.

The profits for this event will be utilized to help the community in need. Hope to see you in this wonderful event.