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CONGRATULATING MR. EMMANUEL GARCIA ON HIS INDUCTION INTO THE CHICAGO LGBT HALL OF FAME FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO CHICAGO'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY
WHEREAS, Emmanuel Garc?a was born on January 31, 1982 to Irma Garc?a and Joel Garc?a; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Garc?a, originally from Cicero is a Latino LGBTQ journalist, youth mentor, respected community leader, and has spent the last fifteen years as an activist; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Garc?a, is a board member of the ElevArte Community Studio in Pilsen, the Crossroads Fund; and
WHEREAS, in 2003, Mr. Garc?a co-founded the Alvarado/Garc?a Scholarship for the Association of Latinos/as Motivating Action (ALMA), which for 10 years awarded two college scholarships to Latino gay, bisexual, queer youth; and
WHEREAS, in the same year, Mr. Garc?a became a contributing writer for Windy City Times and began writing a column for En La Vida, a sister publication, where he focused on Latino community events and news and interviewed celebrities such as Paulina Rubio, Maria Conchita Alonso, La India, and Wilson Cruz, as well as three-time U.S. national figure skating champion Johnny Weir; and
WHEREAS, in 2009, Mr. Garc?a became the producer and voice behind Homofrecuencia, Chicago's first Spanish language LGBTQ public radio program at Radio Arte WRTE 90.5 FM, where he used advocacy journalism to highlight inequalities in immigration, healthcare, and employment through a Latino queer lens; and
WHEREAS, while at Radio Arte he became the lead organizer of Chicago's largest queer youth prom at the National Museum of Mexican Art, an event that he has led for the past five years; and
WHEREAS, in 2010 Mr. Garc?a began to shift the focus of his activism, using his experience in print, radio, and social media to mobilize the LGBTQ Latino community, co-organizing two buses with over 100 LGBTQ Latinos to travel to Washington, DC to demand immigration reform under the name "Rainbow...
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