Gay Hispanic Caucus or
Gay Lesbian Hispanics Unidos (GLHU)
Plus, includes LLEGO & GLOBO

1978 - 2004

PLUS, a Special Treat, a Scrapbook
kept by a candidate for Ms Baile 1990
(Sally Miranda) and Programs for that event

1978 - 1988 This Page
1989 - 2004

This is one of the community organizations that sprung from
Town Meeting I, as summarized in the clipping below

 

Introduction

I could not do a better introduction for this section than the one that describes
the files donated to the University of Texas (Austin) by Dennis Medina. He was
very active in the group for years and you can find the rest of those details here.

The organization lasted until about the end of 1995. Newsletters named Noticias
were produced from roughly 1982 through 1995. A few can be viewed below.

Newsletters

       

from 80, 82, 83, 85 PDF                              87 Jan-May PDF                             87 June Pride PDF    

         

87 Jul-Dec PDF                            88 Jan-March PDF                               88 Sept PDF                                 AMIGA 89 Spring PDF

And, the national organization LLEGO

  

April 1991/May 1992 PDF                    Sep-Dec 1994 PDF

Clippings

1979

they soon changed their name

1980

  

  

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

      

   

   

1986

      

above, while the name change happened in 1985, it first was noted in TWT in January 1986,
changing from the more political Gay Hispanic Caucus to Gay & Lesbian Hispanic Unidos,
reflecting a shift to more social, cultural and education focuses

   

   

1987

  

1988

Press release, which details the various programs of GLHU

"The Wetback Controversy"

In April 1988 Mary's bar ran an ad in the Montrose Voice that was
considered to be racist. It yielded picketing and letters to the editor.
Complicating things was that the ad was run by the Hispanic manager
of the bar, as a satire, so there were varying points of view.

The following package was prepared to present the issues

PDF

And the wet back controversy reached as far as Boston,
with an article in the Gay Community News,
an esteemed newspaper

PDF of this article

And, this was less than a year after their last conroversy, in 1987

Not so merry....
Mary's, Naturally bar was always super supportive of the community, but at least once,
in 1987, they fell way below the threshold of being correct, in their ad for Juneteenth.
And the next week a letter to the Editor of the Montrose Voice called them out on it.

 

AMIGA Established
All Mujeres Interested in Getting Active

  

  

  

Above, from Miss Camp America Program, 1988
with Felix Garcia and Pamela Aguilar

On to 1989