One of the subjects in ¡Cuéntamelo!, Adela Vazquez, a transgender immigrant woman of Cuban descent, influenced Delgado Lopera's interest in these untapped stories during a class presentation.
[1] Delgado Lopera first published four stories in the magazine SF Weekly titled "Cuentamelo: An Oral History of Queer Latin Immigrants in San Francisco" on June 26, 2013.
[5] They then received two creative writing awards from Galería de la Raza and the Queer Cultural Center,[6] which allowed them to continue finding more histories speaking on the issues of homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and the AIDS pandemic.
Delgado Lopera plays with language in Quiéreme to create a mixed combination of English and Spanish into "Spanglish" as a form of bilingual literature.
[2] Writer, Michelle Tea, founded Radar Productions back in 2003, its mission is to commission and offer queer performers, from diverse backgrounds, spaces to tell their LGBTQA experience.
[4] Radar Productions is based in San Francisco and organizes queer literature performances around the Bay Area that are open freely to the public.
[15] As a Queer, Transgender, People of Color (QTPOC) activist, Delgado Lopera collaborated in "Noche de Ambiente" (night of atmosphere) a multimedia exhibition available to the public from October 2016 to February 2017 at the GLBT History Museum.
[17] Delgado Lopera collaborated in the exhibition to use art as a tool to educate the public about queer Latino History in the Bay Area, particularly in San Francisco.
They were invited to participate in 2016 and continues to tour alongside Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Cathy de la Cruz, Celeste Chan, Virgie Tovar, Maya Songbird, and Denise Benavides.