{"id":10869,"date":"2025-10-21T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10869\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:37:06","slug":"frankie-miranda-nyc-nonprofit-trailblazer-and-ceo-of-hispanic-federation-makes-out100-list-a-very-humbling-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/10869\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankie Miranda, NYC nonprofit trailblazer and CEO of Hispanic Federation, makes OUT100 list: ‘A very humbling moment’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — A hundred people from across the country are being honored for being trailblazers in the LGBTQ+ community. One of those at the top of the Out100 list<\/a> is a longtime New Yorker, a nonprofit leader who has been working for decades to help Latinos across the Tri-State area and the country.<\/p>\n

“I am living proof that life will get much, much better,” said Frankie Miranda, the president and CEO of the Hispanic Federation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whether it’s helping families after a hurricane hit Puerto Rico, bringing resources to communities hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic in New York, or helping families in Texas impacted by immigration, Miranda tackles all issues facing communities across the country.<\/p>\n

“I feel a huge responsibility to make sure that we are a true voice for the community,” said Miranda. “It’s about – tell me exactly what you need and I’m going to try to help you as much as possible” he said.<\/p>\n

He couldn’t imagine all the possibilities as a child growing up in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

“My mom knew that I needed to leave, she cried like I was going to war and I said ‘Mom, I’m going to study’, but she deep inside knew that I was not coming back,” he said.<\/p>\n

Miranda moved to New York City in 1995.<\/p>\n

“Here I am, an American citizen, accepted to NYU but I was still treated like somebody that is not welcome here in New York,” he said. “I had a thicker accent, I had no job, I had two potential roommates.”<\/p>\n

It was only an immigrant couple that gave him the opportunity to find a place to live, he said.<\/p>\n

These are all issues he helps others deal with to this day.<\/p>\n

“I am here today because that Ecuadorian couple took a chance on renting to these three young guys,” he said.<\/p>\n

Miranda was the first in his family to graduate from college and he was one of the first gay couples in the U.S. to get married. He remains a spokesperson for marriage equality today.<\/p>\n

“Today we are still living a beautiful, happy life but it took a lot of conversations with a lot of people to really understand that civil unions and domestic partnerships were not the same as all the rights that we can get,” he said.<\/p>\n

His work across the country is why he can now add another honor to his name. He made Out Magazine’s Out 100 list this year – a list of the most impactful and influential people in the LGBTQ+ community.<\/p>\n

“I felt very humble and very proud because it is a journey since 1995 of reading the magazine, still getting the magazine at home,” he said. “So personally, it’s a very humbling moment for me.”<\/p>\n

The magazine will all of the honoree’s hits newsstands on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — A hundred people from across the country are being honored for being trailblazers in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[8770,8767,8768,75,84,83,9,24,63,8766,8769],"class_list":["post-10869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-8770","tag-frankie-miranda","tag-hispanic-federation","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-out100","tag-puerto-rican-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}