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

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

AMIGA Established
All Mujeres Interested in Getting Active

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

1989

Gilberto A Guerrero

In June 1989 AMIGA co-sponsored the second annual
Texas Lesbian Conference, in Houston. PDF

1990

See Special Section: a Scrapbook kept by contestant Sally Miranda

1991

related clipping

1992

LLEGO

1993

Michael Alfaro

1994

Read Morales Pages          Read Palomo Pages

1995

1996

Above right, last listing for the organization in the TWT Guide section, 2/23/96

Photos

These photos are courtesy of the Botts Collection, from the files of Upfront Newspaper, photographer unknown.
If you can identify some of the people in them Please let me know.

1

Above right, Larry Bagneris

2

3

4-5   

6

Since the tag on the uniform says Alfaro, this is probably GHC President Michael Alfaro

7  8 

9

above on right, GPC President Steve Shiflett

10

11

City Council member Ben Reyes

Photos of Framed Posters
Courtesy of Brad Veloz

Plus Brad Veloz & Mike were shown in the 1991 Pride Poster

More on the Dennis Medina Collection at UT Austin

Detailed information on these holdings

Later Articles

GLOBO

And an essay by Medina is included in the book Queer Brown Voices (2015)
You can read part of that chapter at this link

Outsmart 1995

Download the Article