March 31, 2023 – Together On the Air x Unidad: Film Screening and Panel

Eduardo Archuleta is an activist and community organizer who was involved in Radio GLLU from its inception. During the late 1990s, Archuleta was also part of a group of Latino Gay men who created HIV prevention programs for Spanish-speaking gay men in Long Beach, CA with support from The Center Behavioral Research and Services from California State University, Long Beach.

Gregorio Davila made his first documentary in 2001. Under his production company, L.A. A QUEER HISTORY, INC., he has written, produced, edited and directed two short films and one feature-length: NANCY FROM EAST SIDE CLOVER, which played in twelve festivals around the world and won five awards; and JEANNE CORDOVA: BUTCHES, LIES & FEMINISM which made its festival debut at Outfest Los Angeles in July 2017. His award-winning feature-length Documentary, L.A. A QUEER HISTORY is currently in broadcast and streaming on PBS nationally. UNIDAD: GAY AND LESBIAN LATINOS UNIDOS is his latest documentary and is set to premiere on PBS in June 2023.

Rita Gonzales is an activist and radio professional with decades of experience as an editor, producer, engineer, and board operator. Since her time at GLLU, she has served on Boards and committees at numerous Los Angeles-based nonprofits and received many awards for her activism. She currently chairs the Board of Directors for Bienestar and is co-producer of a new LGBT KPFK radio webcast program called “The Out Agenda.”

Ángel Labarthe del Solar (he/she) was born in Lima, Perú with a passion for merging art and storytelling. She upholds storytelling as a powerful medium for social change, amplifying the experience of individuals who have long been silenced. Ángel received his Master’s in Oral History from Columbia University in 2020 and has since focused on taking an intimate approach to visual storytelling, in work that is both conceptual and documentary. Ángel’s work is a testament to queer / trans resilience, trauma, addiction, queer joy, and the power of finding freedom in a home within oneself.

Lydia R. Otero is a historian & author based in Tucson, Arizona. Their most recent publication, In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer, was released in 2019 and they are currently working on an upcoming memoir of their life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Roland Palencia is a pioneering LGBTQ activist who co-founded a number of Queer Latine organizations in 1980s Los Angeles, including Gay & Lesbian Latinos Unidos. Currently, he is a Professor at Tseng College at California State University Northridge (CSUN). Formerly, he served in executive roles at L.A. Care Health Plan, Equality California, the California Endowment, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation. He has received numerous recognitions and awards for his community service, including “Local Hero” by PBS-KCET and Union Bank of California, and has been featured in a number of publications, including Stuart Timmons and Lillian Faderman’s seminal work “Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians.” He is the award-winning producer of TRANSVISIBLE: THE BAMBY SALCEDO STORY, UNIDAD: GAY & LESBIAN LATINOS UNIDOS, and the fictional film HOMEBOUND.