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Remember the Alamo, Part II
Gonzalez, Barbara Renaud | March 15, 1999 issue

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The article presents information on the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, whose crime it is to believe that art can change the world. Esperanza means hope in Spanish, but it implies more than can be translated, it means faith and the dreams of a people, too. On a Tuesday amid the heat wave that some call the city's curse, the Esperanza, as it is commonly known, filed an unprecedented lawsuit against the City of San Antonio, alleging the kind of discrimination most Latinos take for granted. The lawsuit came after a long and protracted campaign that targeted the arts center as a nest of jotos, or homosexuals in polite English, and that alleged gay and lesbian agendas as an excuse to slash the city arts budget.

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ART; FAITH; DREAMS; DISCRIMINATION; BUDGET; GAYS
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