Roque Ramirez, Horac N. "That's My Place!: Negotiatg Racial, Sexual, and Genr Polics San Francis's Gay Lato Alliance, 1977-1983." Journal of the History of Sexualy 12.2 (2003): 224-258. Prt.
Contents:
- GAY LATO ALLIANCE IS FORMED SUMMARY
- GAY, LATO GROUPS FE IMMIGRATN ALLIANCE
- THAT'S MY PLACE!: NEGOTIATG RACIAL, SEXUAL, AND GENR POLICS SAN FRANCIS'S GAY LATO ALLIANCE, 1977-1983
GAY LATO ALLIANCE IS FORMED SUMMARY
Horac N. Roque Ramírez, "That's My Place!": Negotiatg Racial, Sexual, and Genr Polics San Francis's Gay Lato Alliance, 1975-1983, Journal of the History of Sexualy, Vol. 12, No. 2, Special Issue: Sexualy and Polics sce 1945 (Apr., 2003), pp. 224-258 * gay latino alliance *
This group, the Gay Lato Alliance (GALA) was a short-lived group centered Missn, which succsfully anized gay Latos until s mise via the openg of the Esta Noche Lat gay bar and creasg tensns wh the group. 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. 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.
GAY, LATO GROUPS FE IMMIGRATN ALLIANCE
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THAT'S MY PLACE!: NEGOTIATG RACIAL, SEXUAL, AND GENR POLICS SAN FRANCIS'S GAY LATO ALLIANCE, 1977-1983
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