City council honors Rosa Lopez with sign topper
Rosa Lopez Dallas City Council voted unanimously for an honorary sign topper to remember Rosa Lopez. This is the first sign topper for a Latina and the first for a lesbian.
Earlier this year, a sign topper was dedicated to Don Maison, the longtime CEO of AIDS Services Dallas. Lopez was a West Dallas community housing advocate.
She moved to Dallas in 1991 with experience in housing. By the next year, she had founded and became executive director of Vecinos Unidos, a community housing development corporation that developed 57 brick homes in the Los Altos neighborhood in West Dallas.
The project was completed in 2001. She co-founded Lesbianas Latinas de Dallas, the first lesbian organization for Latinas in Texas, and was a founder of Rainbow LULAC 4871, the first LGBTQ LULAC organization in the country.
