Bruce Monroe (1956 - 2021), was born in Roswell, New Mexico. Monroe attended college at Texas A&M University in College Station. While working for Channel 13 in Grand Prairie, Texas, Monroe meet Tom Hatfield, a volunteer of the Dallas Gay Alliance and became an active volunteer in political activism for gay rights. Working full-time for the DGA, Monroe's positon on the DGA board was to be involved in editing and publishing its monthly newsletter, called Dialogue, working with Mark Rogers. In the 1980s, Monroe and others formed GUTS (Gay Urban Truth Squad), a group to take public action and lead demonstrations. Demonstrations included, making dummies out of clothes and rags to represent the victims of AIDS, and dropping them off outside the County Health Department offices. Other demonstrations included, drawing about 1,200 chalk outlines around fallen bodies in front of City Hall and also the County Commissioners Court building, representing the number of Dallas AIDS cases.

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