From GLAADLines 1.13.97:

GAY YOUTH ELECTED TO CHICAGO SCHOOL BOARD: Whitney Young High School senior Miguel Ayala, 17, will sit as a nonvoting member of the Chicago School Board beginning this month, making him the first gay or Latino student ever to be elected to the position. Ayala also serves as president of Whitney Young's Pride Club, which promotes awareness of issues affection gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, and is a student representative at his high school's student council and member of the school's Somos Latinos Coalition. He has also formed Student Pride USA, which is part of the national student gay/straight alliance. For more information contact the Department of Education Office of Communications at (773) 535-3760 or Miguel Ayala via e-mail: miguel@studentalliance.org or WWW: http://www.studentalliance.org/.