London Gay Liberatn Front Manifto 1971 | Peter Tatchell Foundatn

Contents:

• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
• LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO, LONDON 1971
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO.
• HOW THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO HELPED TO SHAPE ME

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO

gay, society, male, opprsn, homosexualy, straight, fay, mascule, liberatn, women, gay people, gay men, gay liberatn, straight people, sexist culture, male chvism, small fay, gay women, fay un. Furthermore some materials nta triggerg ntent which is racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, natnalistic, anti-Semic, ableist, ageist, or otherwise not reprentative of the movement. It should also be clear that the are the views of one person, and are termed not only by my homosexualy, but my beg whe, male, middle class.

Humans origally ma homosexualy taboo bee they need every b of energy to produce and raise children: survival of speci was a prry. The reason so few of are bisexual is bee society ma such a big stk about homosexualy that we got forced to seeg ourselv as eher straight or non-straight. Also, many gays go turned off to the ways men are supposed to act wh women and vice-versa, which is pretty fucked-up.

Gays will beg to turn on to women when 1) 's somethg that we do bee we want to, and not bee we should, and 2) when women's liberatn chang the nature of heterosexual relatnships. We ntue to ll ourselv homosexual, not bisexual, even if we do make wh the oppose sex also, bee sayg “Oh, I'm Bi” is a p-out for a gay. We get told 's OK to sleep wh guys as long as we sleep wh women, too, and that's still puttg homosexualy down.

LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971

So gay women are gog to see thgs differently om gay men; they are gog to feel put down as women, too.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO, LONDON 1971

And although some of the ias may be equally relevant to gay women, would be arrogant to prume this to be a manifto for lbians. The existence of a lbian uc wh the New York Gay Liberatn Front has been very helpful challengg male chvism among gay guys, and anti-gay feelgs among women's lib.

(At an early gay liberatn meetg one guy said, “Why don't we ve women's liberatn — they n brg sandwich and ffee. Another is uptightns and hostily to homosexualy that many women have — that is the straight them. This ia gets extend to male/female, on top/on bottom, spoe/not spoe, heterosexual/homosexual, boss/worker, whe/black and rich/poor.

Those of who have been heterosexual marriag too often have blamed our gayns on the breakup of the marriage. Liberatn for gay people is fg for ourselv how and wh whom we live, stead of measurg our relatnship parison to straight on, wh straight valu.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO.

Gay ‘stereotyp’: The straight's image of the gay world is fed largely by those of who have vlated straight rol. There is a tenncy among ‘homophile’ groups to plore gays who play visible rol — the queens and the nelli.

The married guy who mak on the si secretly; the guy who will go to bed once but won't velop any gay relatnships; the pretenr at work or school who chang the genr of the iend he's talkg about; the guy who'll suck ck the bh but won't go to bed. A lot of ‘movement’ typ e on wh a le of sh about homosexuals not beg opprsed as much as blacks or Vietname or workers or women. Talk about the prry of black liberatn or endg imperialism over and above gay liberatn is jt anti-gay propaganda.

The prs mpaign to lk prison rap wh homosexualy is an attempt to make straights fear and spise , so they n opprs more. It's typil of the fucked-up straight md to thk that homosexual sex volv tyg a guy down and fuckg him. Sce our parents don't know any homosexuals, we grow up thkg that we are alone and different and perverted.

HOW THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO HELPED TO SHAPE ME

And all along, the bt we hear if anythg about homosexualy is that 's an unfortunate problem. Self-opprsn: As gay liberatn grows, we will fd our uptight brothers and sisters, particularly those who are makg a buck off our ghetto, g on strong to fend the stat quo. This is self opprsn: ‘don't rock the boat’; ‘thgs SF are OK’; ‘gay people jt aren't together’; ‘I'm not opprsed.

Homosexual relatnships are illegal, and even if the laws are not regularly enforced, they enurage and enforce closet queenery. The bulk of the social work psychiatric field looks upon homosexualy as a problem, and treats as sick.

If we are willg to label ourselv publicly not only as homosexual but as sick, then we qualify for ferment; and if we're not ‘discreet’ (dishont) we get dmmed out of the service. Gay liberatn people mt unrstand that women have been treated exclively and dishontly as sexual objects.