Gay and Lesbian Latin Alliance (GALLA) will have their pageant on Saturday, December 12, 6:00 to 10:30 p.m., at Hamburger Mary’s Club located at 700 East 17th Avenue in Denver. Open to the public, admission is $5.00 per person and $8.00 per couple. The event is a benefit for the Colorado Victims Fund and the White Rose Scholarship Foundation, which is a program of the nonprofit Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire. The pageant will feature the presentation of the Angie Zapata Scholarship, which was recently initiated by GALLA title holder Marlena di Marco. Named in memory of the transgendered Angie Zapata who was brutally murdered in Colorado last year, the scholarship will be presented to a student in the GLBT community. GALLA is a new group formed in 2008 and is not affiliated with the other longtime nonprofit organization, which had a similar name and which dissolved last year. - via La Gente Unida
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
GALLA pageant to benefit White Rose Scholarship Fund
Gay and Lesbian Latin Alliance (GALLA) will have their pageant on Saturday, December 12, 6:00 to 10:30 p.m., at Hamburger Mary’s Club located at 700 East 17th Avenue in Denver. Open to the public, admission is $5.00 per person and $8.00 per couple. The event is a benefit for the Colorado Victims Fund and the White Rose Scholarship Foundation, which is a program of the nonprofit Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire. The pageant will feature the presentation of the Angie Zapata Scholarship, which was recently initiated by GALLA title holder Marlena di Marco. Named in memory of the transgendered Angie Zapata who was brutally murdered in Colorado last year, the scholarship will be presented to a student in the GLBT community. GALLA is a new group formed in 2008 and is not affiliated with the other longtime nonprofit organization, which had a similar name and which dissolved last year. - via La Gente Unida
