That's My Place!: Negotiatg Racial, Sexual, and Genr Polics San Francis's Gay Lato Alliance, 1977-1983 | Queer Newark

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

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

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. 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.

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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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