League of the United Latin American Citizens
Council 4871- The Dallas Rainbow Council
Founded on June 12, 2006 - Oak Lawn Neighborhood
Council 4871- The Dallas Rainbow Council
Founded on June 12, 2006 - Oak Lawn Neighborhood
It's About Social Justice
Group
Founders
(left to right):
Zhyla
Alvarado, Ray
De Los
Santos, Corey
Slover,
Suzanne
Hickman,
Patricia
Mancha and
Jesse Garcia
Founders
(left to right):
Zhyla
Alvarado, Ray
De Los
Santos, Corey
Slover,
Suzanne
Hickman,
Patricia
Mancha and
Jesse Garcia
LULAC
The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is
to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political
influence, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United
States.
LULAC 4871 – The Dallas Rainbow Council
Creating dialogue between the Hispanic and LGBT community which
have a common goal: full equality.
Beginning of LULAC 4871:
Summer 2005: LGBT community meets with LULAC leaders to talk
about defeating the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Texas.
They advise us to form a chapter in order to bring this issue to the table.
April 9, 2006: Thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Latinos and Latinas take part in Mega-Marcha rallies across the nation.
This event helps resurrect the idea put forth by LULAC leaders.
May 18, 2006: LULAC Leader Renato De Los Santos recruits members
for a new LULAC Council made up of LGBT people at the Valiente
meeting, an organization of DFW LGBTQ Latinos. He recruits 12
people.
May 25, 2006: Interim officers are selected and the new council is
named "Gay LULAC." Interim officers are Corey Slover, president;
Suzanne Hickman, vice president; Zhyla Alvarado, treasurer;Jesse
Garcia, secretary; and Patricia Mancha, parliamentarian.
June 12, 2006: LULAC National President Hector Flores inaugurates
the council in front of 55 people, including several LULAC state leaders,
in the Oak Lawn neighborhood.
July 25, 2006: Gay LULAC has its first monthly meeting.
LULAC 4871 has received several awards including:
2008 - LULAC Council of the Year - District III
2008 - LULAC Council of the Year - Texas
2010 - LULAC Council of the Year - District III
2010 - LULAC Council of the Year - Texas
2010 - LULAC Council of the Year - National
LULAC 4871 passed the following resolutions:
2008 - Resolution to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell - District
2008 - Resolution to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell - Texas
2008 - Resolution to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell - National
2009 - Resolution to Support Employee Non Discrimination Act - District
2009 - Resolution to Support Employee Non Discrimination Act - Texas
2009 - Resolution to Support Employee Non Discrimination Act - National
What is LULAC?
In its history of over 80 years, LULAC has worked to bring about many
of the positive social and economic changes that Hispanic Americans
have seen.
In 1945, a California LULAC Council successfully sued to integrate the
Orange County School System, which had been segregated on the
grounds that Mexican children were "more poorly clothed and mentally
inferior to white children." Additionally, in 1954, LULAC brought another
landmark case, Hernandez vs. the State of Texas, to protest the fact
that not a single Mexican American in Texas had ever been called to
jury duty. The Supreme Court ruled this exclusion unconstitutional.
Since that time, LULAC has fought for voting rights and full access to
the political process, and equal educational opportunity for Hispanic
children. It has been a long and often difficult struggle, but LULAC's
record of activism continues to this day, as LULAC councils across the
nation hold voter registration drives and citizenship awareness sessions,
sponsor health fairs and tutorial programs, and raise scholarship money
for the LULAC National Scholarship Fund. This fund, in conjunction with
the LNESC (LULAC National Educational Service Centers), has assisted
almost 10 percent of the 1.1 million students who have gone to college.
LULAC's activism has extended to the realm of language and cultural
rights as well. In response to an alarming increase in xenophobia and
anti-Hispanic sentiment, LULAC councils have fought back by holding
seminars and public symposiums on language and immigration issues,
and its officers have spoken out on television and radio against the
"English Only" movement to limit the public (and in some cases, private)
use of minority languages.
Who is considered Hispanic?
According to wikipedia.org, Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity
employed to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any
country and of any religion who has at least one ancestor from the
people of Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the
person has Spanish ancestry. It is therefore not a racial term, although
as used in the United States it often carries racial connotations. The
term was first adopted in the United States by the administration of
Richard Nixon and has since been used as a broad form of
classification in the U.S. census, local and federal employment, mass
media, and business market research.
How many Hispanics are in the U.S.?
According to the 2010 Census, Hispanics accounted for more than half
of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding
estimates in most states as they crossed a new census milestone: 50
million, or 1 in 6 Americans.
The Mission of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is
to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political
influence, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population of the United
States.
LULAC 4871 – The Dallas Rainbow Council
Creating dialogue between the Hispanic and LGBT community which
have a common goal: full equality.
Beginning of LULAC 4871:
Summer 2005: LGBT community meets with LULAC leaders to talk
about defeating the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in Texas.
They advise us to form a chapter in order to bring this issue to the table.
April 9, 2006: Thousands of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Latinos and Latinas take part in Mega-Marcha rallies across the nation.
This event helps resurrect the idea put forth by LULAC leaders.
May 18, 2006: LULAC Leader Renato De Los Santos recruits members
for a new LULAC Council made up of LGBT people at the Valiente
meeting, an organization of DFW LGBTQ Latinos. He recruits 12
people.
May 25, 2006: Interim officers are selected and the new council is
named "Gay LULAC." Interim officers are Corey Slover, president;
Suzanne Hickman, vice president; Zhyla Alvarado, treasurer;Jesse
Garcia, secretary; and Patricia Mancha, parliamentarian.
June 12, 2006: LULAC National President Hector Flores inaugurates
the council in front of 55 people, including several LULAC state leaders,
in the Oak Lawn neighborhood.
July 25, 2006: Gay LULAC has its first monthly meeting.
LULAC 4871 has received several awards including:
2008 - LULAC Council of the Year - District III
2008 - LULAC Council of the Year - Texas
2010 - LULAC Council of the Year - District III
2010 - LULAC Council of the Year - Texas
2010 - LULAC Council of the Year - National
LULAC 4871 passed the following resolutions:
2008 - Resolution to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell - District
2008 - Resolution to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell - Texas
2008 - Resolution to Repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell - National
2009 - Resolution to Support Employee Non Discrimination Act - District
2009 - Resolution to Support Employee Non Discrimination Act - Texas
2009 - Resolution to Support Employee Non Discrimination Act - National
What is LULAC?
In its history of over 80 years, LULAC has worked to bring about many
of the positive social and economic changes that Hispanic Americans
have seen.
In 1945, a California LULAC Council successfully sued to integrate the
Orange County School System, which had been segregated on the
grounds that Mexican children were "more poorly clothed and mentally
inferior to white children." Additionally, in 1954, LULAC brought another
landmark case, Hernandez vs. the State of Texas, to protest the fact
that not a single Mexican American in Texas had ever been called to
jury duty. The Supreme Court ruled this exclusion unconstitutional.
Since that time, LULAC has fought for voting rights and full access to
the political process, and equal educational opportunity for Hispanic
children. It has been a long and often difficult struggle, but LULAC's
record of activism continues to this day, as LULAC councils across the
nation hold voter registration drives and citizenship awareness sessions,
sponsor health fairs and tutorial programs, and raise scholarship money
for the LULAC National Scholarship Fund. This fund, in conjunction with
the LNESC (LULAC National Educational Service Centers), has assisted
almost 10 percent of the 1.1 million students who have gone to college.
LULAC's activism has extended to the realm of language and cultural
rights as well. In response to an alarming increase in xenophobia and
anti-Hispanic sentiment, LULAC councils have fought back by holding
seminars and public symposiums on language and immigration issues,
and its officers have spoken out on television and radio against the
"English Only" movement to limit the public (and in some cases, private)
use of minority languages.
Who is considered Hispanic?
According to wikipedia.org, Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity
employed to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any
country and of any religion who has at least one ancestor from the
people of Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the
person has Spanish ancestry. It is therefore not a racial term, although
as used in the United States it often carries racial connotations. The
term was first adopted in the United States by the administration of
Richard Nixon and has since been used as a broad form of
classification in the U.S. census, local and federal employment, mass
media, and business market research.
How many Hispanics are in the U.S.?
According to the 2010 Census, Hispanics accounted for more than half
of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding
estimates in most states as they crossed a new census milestone: 50
million, or 1 in 6 Americans.
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