Compiled By Tim Retzloff Wh s 20th anniversary, Between The L ntu as the longt published LGBT newspaper Michigan. The Gay Liberator
Contents:
- COLLECTN SPOTLIGHT: GAY LIBERATOR
- SHOCKWAV OM STONEWALL: REVISG GAY LIBERATN MICHIGAN
- DETRO GAY LIBERATOR
COLLECTN SPOTLIGHT: GAY LIBERATOR
The Stonewall uprisg had reverb. Multiple nights of rtg agast police June 1969 sent shockwav across the untry and sparked gay anizg on * detroit gay liberator *
The Gay Liberator llectn, the space of jt two pact box, offers a history unique to Detro and s LGBT muny. Published om 1970-1976, the Gay Liberator also reflects growg polil awarens durg an important time for the natn as a whole.
In the first issue of the Gay Liberator, we see the support system that has been nstcted and mataed by gay men and women of the metro Detro area: social events are planned, tsted health re provirs are remend, safe spac are advertised. This group workg for acceptance realiz that the sired normalizatn of their inty is herently radil, as will only be possible through “a basic change society” [Gay Liberator, Vol.
SHOCKWAV OM STONEWALL: REVISG GAY LIBERATN MICHIGAN
Gay liberator. [volume] (Detro, Mich.) 1971-1976 * detroit gay liberator *
The gay liberatn movement was takg root across the Uned Stat as a bandg together of lbian, gay, and transgenr groups who realized they were fightg for the same e. Wh the pag of the Gay Liberator, they began to discs the multiple layers of race, class, and sexual inty that affected their liv: “we are alt wh more severely than those ‘sissi’ who have hered membership the lg class” [Gay Liberator, Vol.
DETRO GAY LIBERATOR
This cricism was enuraged and taken to heart: illtratns and advertisements the Gay Liberator beme creasgly aware of diversy issu wh each new issue. Natnal polil groups took notice of the gay liberatn movement as well, the more radil groups treatg them as an equal force, a factn of the same army.