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GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE
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The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was formed December 1969 by Jim Owl, Marty Robson, Arthur Evans, Arthur Bell, and others, who beme disaffected by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), the first LGBT group formed right after Stonewall. Foced exclively on “the liberatn of gay people, ” GAA beme the most fluential Amerin gay liberatn activist anizatn the early 1970s. While the pickets and actns by earlier homophile groups the 1960s, like the Mattache Society’s Sip-In at Juli’, had been peaceful, the post-Stonewall groups, cludg GAA, GLF, and Radilbians, were more nontatnal.
This was the “zap, ” a direct, surprise public nontatn wh polil figur and rporate and ernmental enti regardg gay rights and discrimatn, signed to ga gay and straight media attentn. “Marty Robson, ” Kay Tob (Lahen), The Gay Csars (New York: PaperBack Library, 1972).
GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE
Marc Rub, “GAA Mt Be Rtored to History, ” Gay Today, July 1999,. Morty Manford and Arthur Evans, “The Theory and Practice of Conontatn Tactics, Part 3: How to Zap, ” GAY, March 12, 1973, 17.
GAA Communy Demonstratn to Prott Syndite Domatn and Police Harassment of Gays, at the former 6th Police Precct Statn, July 24, 1971. Who We AreFound 1971, GLAA is an all-volunteer, non-partisan, non-prof polil anizatn that has succsfully obtaed civil rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people the Natn's Capal. Throughout our 50+ years, we have succsfully obtaed polil power for LGBTQ people, repealed anti-gay laws, curtailed police harassment and vlence, and moled strategy and legislative policy for jurisdictns across the untry.
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GLAA remas the natn's olst ntuoly active gay and lbian civil rights anizatn. Sce he clearly n’t get enough of beg queer, he is also “gay for pay” at the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights where he is the director of racial and enomic jtice iativ. When he is not anizg, he lov askg people about their Myers Briggs Type (he is ENFP, for the rerd), dog gay crim (the basics like dgs and public sex), havg Spicy Vanilla™️ sex, dancg to hot beats on the dance floor, practicg vulnerabily, plottg revolutn agast palism and other forms of opprsn, watchg mic vios and YouTube vios about mental health and spirualy, beg on that polyamoro sh, fdg the bety others, and sharg the gospel of love.
Notable advocy victori clu a petn nvcg performance venu across the untry to ncel performanc by sger Michelle Shocked after she livered a homophobic tira onstage; a succsful ternatnal media mpaign that rulted Apple droppg a "gay cure" iPhone app; and a stg operatn which he went unrver wh hidn meras at the clic -owned by Marc and Michele Bachmann and exposed them for offerg dulent "ex-gay" therapy.
He has served as a spokman for Fair Wisns and on the boards of Vermont Freedom to Marry, Pri Vermont, and Vermont Gay Social Alternativ. Holot Council and gays 05/14/99Feral Intsns and the D. Gay Communy 10/18/97Addrs by Melv Boozer at Democratic Natnal Conventn 1980Kameny ttifi before Dowdy hearg (part 1) 08/08/63Kameny ttifi before Dowdy hearg (part 2) 08/08/63.