The Gay Liberatn Front and queer rights the UK: a nversatn wh Jefey Weeks — Anglais

Contents:

• LE DIRECTR DU FOM GAY ET LBIEN LYON DéMISSNNE ET DéNONCE L’EMPRISE DU MOUVEMENT “WOKE”
• THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT AND QUEER RIGHTS THE UK: A NVERSATN WH JEFEY WEEKS
• GAY BORX
• GAY FRANCE

LE DIRECTR DU FOM GAY ET LBIEN LYON DéMISSNNE ET DéNONCE L’EMPRISE DU MOUVEMENT “WOKE”

Uned Café - Pour danser jqu' bout la nuMiqu généralist et branché, la disthèque gay et lbienne Uned Café t un li phare si vo souhaez danser et renntrer s personn.

Le pet grand r - XS BarLe XS s't rapiment créé une excellente réputatn parmi l gays lyonnais puis son ouverture en 2010. Accueil, entrai, lutte ntre l discrimatns, préventn, cultur et sports sont quelqu un s nombrs missns que le Centre LGBTI Lyon porte avec s adhérent·e·s et le soutien s associatns qui posent le Centre LGBTI Lyon t une associatn loi 1901 issue la fn ux fédératns historiqu Lyonnais ARIS et le Fom Gay & Lbien. mener, aniser, ou soutenir toute réflexn, actn, iative, évènement ou terventn en favr l’égalé s dros et la santé physique et mentale s personn lbienn, gays, bis, trans ou Intersex;• lutter ntre tout l vlenc et discrimatns dont sont victim l personn en raison lr orientatn sexuelle ou lr inté genre, réell ou supposé, et pl largement sexisme, racisme, sérophobie;• valoriser un environnement social, culturel et sportif favorisant la rennaissance, la visibilé et l’épanouissement s mos vie s personn lbienn, gai, bisexuell, transgenr, tersex ou toute tre personne en terrogatn sur son orientatn sexuelle ou son inté genre.

Après 4 ans présince, le directr du fom Gay et Lbien Lyon démissnne, et ce pour plirs raisons.

THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT AND QUEER RIGHTS THE UK: A NVERSATN WH JEFEY WEEKS

“Pendant 25 ans, j’ai é pour l’égalé s dros entre l personn LGBTI et l hétéros et ntre l discrimatns envers l homosexuels et transsexuels. Il clôture sa présince en pérant que “le Fom Gay et Lbien ne fira pas me ARIS et sera assez fort pour ne pas se faire absorber par le Centre LGBTI.

GAY BORX

À ce tre, elle participe donc x lutt ntre la lbophobie, la gayphobie, la biphobie et la transphobie (LGBTphobi) et x lutt fémist, et pl largement sexisme, racisme, sérophobie;Valoriser un environnement social, culturel et sportif favorisant la rennaissance, la visibilé et l’épanouissement s mos vie s personn lbienn, gai, bisexuell, transgenr, tersex ou toute tre personne en terrogatn sur son orientatn sexuelle ou son inté genre;Faire rennaître la digné s personn lbienn, gay, bisexuell, trans et tersex·ué· dans tout lrs diversés et en tenant pte l’tersectnnalé;Mener, aniser, ou soutenir toute réflexn, actn, iative, évènement ou terventn en favr la préventn sanaire, s dépistag s maladi chroniqu et fectis (en particulier VIH, Hépat et IST), l’ai et soutien psycho-social x personn LGBTI+, la réductn s risqu et s dommag associés à la nsommatn substanc en savoir pl, déuvrez notre se ter. I realised I was gay – although we lled ourselv “queer” then, which is different om “queer” now – and I went to London to universy. I loved my fay and my fay loved me but was a very difficult place to be gay, to be different any way.

I mentn my background bee by the time I went to London as a stunt, I already knew that I was gay, although we didn’t e that word then, and I was sexually active the first few years I was London. There was no sense which my gayns was nied London the late 1960s; was supposed to be swgg London, there was supposed to be a new attu towards sexualy.

There was certaly a greater willgns to discs sexualy after the law was liberalised 1967 ((The Sexual Offenc Act crimalised homosexual acts private between male dividuals. When the Gay Liberatn Front started October 1970 at the London School of Enomics, where I had started workg, was a transformative moment for me.

GAY FRANCE

It’s not simply bee I met new people, but bee of the particular elements of what Gay Liberatn Front was at that moment. It was obvly fluenced by the Gay Liberatn movement the Uned Stat, post-Stonewall, but also had many Brish characteristics. We saw ourselv, for the first time, as an opprsed mory; we saw our inty as somethg we need to affirm, somethg we need to be proud of – “Gay is good” – and we saw ourselv as part of a much larger polil movement, fluenced by femism, black liberatn and civil rights movement.

That heady batn ma the Gay Liberatn Front, for a very brief perd, a sort of magil experience. In those early years I beme an openly gay activist, and that was central to my life, but I also beme a wrer. I stggled the early days to wre some gay journalism – was unfaiar to me – but eventually, over the next four or five years, I began wrg books, and I’m aaid I never stopped.

I hope that I was able to brg to bear the strengths of more tradnal scholarship wrg about gay and lbian history and wir sexual history and that I was able to ntribute to a transformatn of the way we see sexualy society – not as a private thg, which historians shouldn’t be bothered wh – but actually as somethg that was mould society, shaped history, changed by stggl and forms of ristance, forms of posive intifitn and posive affirmatn of our sexuali, and ed our different genrs.