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Over the urse of the 1970s, the crowds at the Lbian and Gay Freedom Day paras San Francis swelled to the hundreds of thoands and appeared that the gay and lbian movement was now unified and diverse. Yet, the movement that was growg the Castro was creasgly a “whe middle-class gay polil project” (Armstrong, 2002, p. This excln was pecially te for gay and lbian people of lor (Armstrong, 2002, p.

For many the Latx gay and lbian muni, seemed that they were often faced wh a choice of livg a mostly whe gay muny wh racism or livg a muny that rejected their sexual orientatn.

And even if they cid to jo the gay muny they often felt as if they had to leave part of themselv behd (Armstrong, 2002, pp.

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Particularly the domant culturally-nservative Catholic Lato culture, homosexualy was not seen a posive light. Some activists this space went so far as to say that "homosexualy is patible wh Lat cultur" (Contreras, 2019, pp.

Enter the Gay Lato Alliance, otherwise known as GALA.

Started via a magaze ad, the Gay Lato Alliance was formed November 1975 (Rey, 1981) and served as one of the first gay Lato associatns to ga visibily the US (Cabello, 2019). In 1971, Rodrigo Rey, a Lato gay male, moved om Texas to San Francis and attempted to jo the whe gay nightlife the Castro (Cabello, 2019, p. There he found that he was discrimated agast, sometim beg asked for two forms of intifitn to get to a gay nightclub, while whe mal weren’t even asked for one.

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Rodrigo started longg for a Lat gay muny, but wasn’t until 1975 when he cid to take actn. A iend took Rodrigo to a Lat gay bar Los Angel, and the bar was “full of nothg but Chinos and Mexins” (Roque Ramírez, 2003, p. Rodrigo me back and published an ad the Bay Area Reporter—a lol gay newspaper—searchg for “Gay Chino[s]” to form a muny group tailored specifilly to their needs.

The goal was origally to “fe strategi to clu a Lato float the upg San Francis gay para”, but as more people me the discsn shifted to the racial and social polics of San Francis and the 15 people cid to form a group to rec for their e. Soon, the first meetg of the then-unnamed anizatn was held at the Society of Individual Rights, where the name “Gay Latos Unidos” was pched, but eventually, the group settled on Gay Lato Alliance or GALA bee of the pronunciatn “Gay-la” (Cabello, 2019, p.

At the first meetg, there were a few lbian Latas prent, such as Diane Felix, who like many others had never participated gay anizg before (Rey, 1981, p. Officially, the group founrs changed the name to the Gay Lato/Lata alliance, but the group lloquially ntued to go by the Gay Lato Alliance (Roque Ramírez, 2003, p.

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Overall, GALA wanted to be a place to exprs gay and lbian inti Lato muni, to create a space that never existed before. They "ordated social functns, offered peer support to dividuals as they me to terms wh their sexual inti, referred gay Latos to plac where they uld accs social servic, participated gay pri events and built allianc wh other lol gay anizatns" (Contreras, 2019, p.

At the same time, they knew that to ga acceptance Lat muni they need to teract wh heterosexual events and groups to show “the humany of gay people” orr to “acture the [Lato] culturally nservative views about homosexualy” (Contreras, 2019, p. Sure enough, GALA managed to tegrate and rally other heterosexual polil Lato anizatns by focg on the siari between gay and Lato polil issu such as immigratn, labor, vlence, discrimatn, and racism. GALA ntgent the 1976 San Francis Gay and Lbian Freedom Day Para on Polk Street.

Beg the Missn District at the time, and beg so close to the Castro, the group was fundamentally ma up of people who were tryg to bridge two parts of their inty, but the group ma a nsc effort to be a part of the Lato muny and not a subgroup of the whe gay muny. The ma goal was not to negotiate between the Lat and whe-gay muny San Francis (Cabello, 2019, p. 588), but eventually, this led to creasg tensns between the GALA and the whe gay muny (Cabello, 2019, p.

Tensns only ntued to rise as more whe affluent gays moved to the Missn District, creatg a rise rental pric.

On one hand, District 6 whe gay lears supported lbian Carol Ruth Silver, while GALA supported straight Lato ndidate Gary Borvice (Cabello, 2019, p.

In the fom, GALA members spoke about the rentment had towards gay wh and lled Latos who supported Silver as sellouts (Roque Ramírez, 2003, p.

This event was seen as the begng of the end for GALA, but the nail the ff for GALA was ironilly the openg of the gay Lato Bar Esta Noche the Missn.

Whout s fundg, GALA dissolved by 1983 and the gay and lbian muny seemed much more agmented than seemed at the Gay and Lbian Freedom Day paras of the 1970s.

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