A short acunt of the Gay Liberatn Front the UK, wrten by Stuart Feather.
Contents:
- GEIA GAY LIBERATN FRONT AND ATLANTA’S FIRST PRI MARCH
- 50 YEARS AGO, ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS PH TOOK TO STREET FOR FIRST TIME
GEIA GAY LIBERATN FRONT AND ATLANTA’S FIRST PRI MARCH
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(Via Geia State Universy) Makgs of a march Gay Liberatn Fronts formed around the untry after the Stonewall Rts, so the template existed for a GLF to e together Geia, remembers Dave Hayward, who moved to Atlanta late 1971 and beme part of the GGLF’s re llective. First mastream media verage Judy Lambert, whose hband was bisexual, joed Smh as -chair of the GGLF for the 1972 Pri march, which Hayward says was famo for s lack of support om the gay bars at the time, the Cove and Sweet Gum Head particular.
50 YEARS AGO, ATLANTA’S GAY RIGHTS PH TOOK TO STREET FOR FIRST TIME
1918: Eight s after her ath, Dorothy Vogel’s dghter expos her mother as an Atlantan lbian a tell-all, reuntg her mother’s relatnships wh women a seri of photographs — photographs that would have damned her mother the anti-homosexual turn-of-the-century. On the 4th July Lbians and Gay Men om the Matache Society New York, rponse to the rts, staged a walk-out and moved to the Alternative Universy Greenwich Village where they found what beme the Gay Liberatn Front. “Not only did liberatnists go to Philalphia to show solidary wh the black movement, but was there that Huey Newton as lear of the Panthers, first gave clear support of the Gay Cse, sayg that homosexuals were maybe the most opprsed people of Amerin society, and uld well be the most revolutnary.