Gay Liberatn Front UK – GAY POWER! Found 1970

Contents:

• HISTORY HAS OVERLOOKED THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT’S ROLE STONEWALL … UNTIL NOW
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT UK
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT AT ALTERNATE U.
• GAY RIGHTS
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

HISTORY HAS OVERLOOKED THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT’S ROLE STONEWALL … UNTIL NOW

Leonard Fk Photographs, The LGBT Communy Center Natnal History ArchiveMark SegalEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and marshal of the first Pri marchThe Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day March was as revolutnary and chaotic as everythg we did that first year after the Stonewall rts. ” Today, my origal marshal’s badge is on display the JayEarly member of the Gay Liberatn Front and Radilbians and -anizer of the first march New York and Los AngelIt was a near miracle that the first Christopher Street Wt Para Los Angel kicked off at all on June 28, 1970. For one day, we were victor agast the Ed Davis of the world, and no one seemed “dismod” the FkelsteJohn KyperEarly member of Boston’s Gay Liberatn Front and an anizer of Boston’s first Pri ParaWe held our first march Boston 1971 — a year after New York.

Groups hosted the 17th ternatnal nference of ILGA (The Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn), and the energy of the ternatnal legat who attend and the excement of hostg the gatherg only add to the drama of the untry’s first actual succsful para.

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

The first Gay Youth anizatn, GYNY; the first trans anizatn, STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari); the first LGBT Communy Center on Wt 3rd Street; the first monstratns agast media and police; and a ntual public prence as we took back our streets.

There were people at Stonewall who passed by, people who crang their necks om around the rner watchg, people who tossed a stone and ran sce the police chased people up and down the street, but the spir of ristance that gave birth to the new movement was all the Gay Liberatn ont. There is also a Morris Kight Facebook LGBT_History Instagram acunt offered a ncise summary of Morris Kight’s life and ntributns on November 19, 2017, what would have been Morris’ 98th birthday Kight’s papers and photographs are hoed at the ONE Archiv at the USC his Makg Gay History terview, Morris talks about the horrific March 1969 beatg ath of Howard Effland at the hands of Los Angel police, which galvanized lol activists. You n read about the murr here and fight over an anti-gay sign at Barney’s Beanery, a Los Angel rtrant, was the foc of the first major prott anized by the Los Angel Gay Liberatn Front, which was found by Morris Kight (and was a sister anizatn of New York Cy’s Gay Liberatn Front, which was found immediately after the Stonewall uprisg June 1969).

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Attorney Herb Selwyn, who was featured this MGH episo, was stmental ultimately securg the required first Christopher Street Wt gay pri para, which memorated the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg New York Cy, took place on June 28, 1970, wh approximately 1, 000 people attendance. Today the Los Angel LGBT Center is the world’s Angel Gay Communy Servic Center meetg (om left to right) Executive director Don Kilhefner, Vice Print Morris Kight, Jim Kepner, June Herrle, Print Mart Field, and John Platania, 1970. Cred: © Lee Mason/ONE Archiv at the USC Morris Kight liver a speech at New York Cy’s 1973 Pri march and rally  this LoveTapCollective vio (starts around 8:20, after troductn by Vo Rso) 1975, Morris Kight -found the Stonewall Democratic Kight’s hoe (where he lived prr to his Makg Gay History terview) is listed as an historic se by the Los Angel played the gmpy poet Leather Jacket Love Story (1997), a film about a gay aspirg poet L.

Morris: Um…Morris: Unr pretty much natnal policy and law, before liberatn, any jurisdictn of the untry that I ever heard of, if a number of well-known, or known, or intified, or seemgly-intified homosexuals me to a place of public acmodatns, uld be closed up. And Wt Hollywood was a low-rent district at the edge of showbiz, and traffic was easy om there to wherever, and so attracted artists, wrers, creative typ, and a good many homosexual men and some lbian And this…Morris: …and a great many of went to Barney’s Beanery. Convce them that was the most important thg their world, and that they n achieve that, that only they stand between themselv and total Liberatn Front protts forced the owner of the Wt Hollywood bar The Farm to rcd the no-touchg le prevalent at gay bars at the time.

And for the rerd, the horrific beatg ath of Howard Efland took place on March 9, 1969, not the last Sunday June Los Angel chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front that Morris -found was short-lived, but that wasn’t the end of Morris’ activism. Thank you to photo edor, Michael Green, whose work you n see the episo not at A very special thank you to our guardian angel Jenna Makg Gay History podst is a -productn of Peapple Street Media, wh assistance om the New York Public Library’s Mancripts and Archiv Divisn and ONE Archiv at the USC Librari. You n fd a lk to that archive Morris’ episo not at three of this podst is ma possible wh fundg om the Ford Foundatn, which is on the ont l of social change if you like what you’ve heard, please subscribe to Makg Gay History wherever you get your podsts.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT AT ALTERNATE U.

21 – Lnch of ‘Revolutnary People’s Constutnal Conventn’ LIVE-STREAMED FROM SPITALFIELDS ON Saturday/Sunday 15/16 May 2021 at The Bishopsgate Instute, a ticketed ee event arranged by the GAY LIBERATION FRONT““We are the Gay Liberatn Front, …. Amazg archivg work by the one and only Stef Dickers, Rachel Smh and all at the Bishopsgate Instute see all on the Bishopsgate Instute webse here Come Together: Gay Liberatn Front About this Archive The newspaper of the Gay Liberatn Front, Come Together, was formed by the GLF’s Media Workshop 1970.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

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That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

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" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn. In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth.

The year 2020 brgs the 50th anniversary of the start of Gay Liberatn London, the moment when everythg changed Bra by settg off the first Gay Pri March 1972, makg 2022 the 50th anniversary of that polil monstratn and celebratn. GLF’s aim is ‘Absolute Freedom for All’ and they empower the queer muny to achieve this through artistic and activist procs to nont a variety of forms of stutnalised homophobia cludg workshops, events, exhibns, street actns and muny anisg. ‘Out of the Closet and to the Streets’ is a polil tn and activism programme, that bats the rise homophobia and is part of velopg wir stggl for jtice agast domator culture and the rise of the far right and this is the programme that GLF will be nng wh Guerrilla backg.

2020 – 2022 – GLF tergeneratnal mentorg programme – Wh foundg members of ‘Pri’ om the ‘Gay Liberatn Front’ they have been meetg regularly aga sce the begng of 2019 to reclaim Pri back om the rporatns and are preparg to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the GLF 2020. S clu Harley Street private medil practice, who prevly promoted beg gay as a disease, the Ho of Parliament where the legendary abseilg lbians protted agast the troductn of ‘Sectn 28’, a heavily-policed cisg spot the early 20th Century on the Strand known hilarly as the ‘Notor Ural’, the 1980’s ‘dyk and faggots rints scheme’ to hoe sgle people hard-to-let flats led by a muny of punk femist lbians, the Deptford Dyk and Picdilly Circ to tip our hats to the ‘Dilly Boys’ and sex workers who have kept the wheels of sexual London greased for centuri. June 2020 – ‘Queer Freedom’ showse at Rich Mix – weekend of films, trags, workshops and events wh tersectnal grassroots LGBTQI+ movements buildg ntug the tersectnal legacy of ‘Gay Liberatn Fronts’ goal of ‘Absolute Freedom for All’.