A brief history of the Gay Liberatn Front, 1970-73 |

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A short acunt of the Gay Liberatn Front the UK, wrten by Stuart Feather. * gay liberation front posters *

Some highlights of materials clud the project are visually stunng posters and signs created by ACT UP durg the 1980s; inic posters created for the “Gay-Ins” anized by the Gay Liberatn Front durg the 1970s as well as early pri celebratns; signs om the historic march on Washgton; and some of the earlit signs created for monstratns anized by 1950s-era homophile anizatns like the Mattache Society.

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

Gay Liberatn Front poster, c. Gay Liberatn Front poster. Barbara Gtgs and Kay Tob Lahen Gay History Papers and Photographs, Mancripts and Archiv Divisn.

The Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) formed the wake of the Stonewall Rts, brgg a new wave of people to the LGBTQ polil activism that had been growg throughout the 1960s.

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Barbara Gtgs and Kay Tob Lahen Gay History Papers and Photographs, Manu…. The LGBT muny, pecially those of om Gay Liberatn Front New York, realized how the history we created om 1969 to 1971 was beg distorted by those who had rerd . Related: 3 years before Stonewall, gay activists protted all over the untry on same day.

The most famo of them were the march every July 4th at Inpennce Hall Philalphia om 1965 to 1969, which some historians mistakenly nnect to Stonewall and the first Gay Pri March 1970. Stonewall wasn’t jt a rebelln agast the police, was also a rebelln agast gay assiatn.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT RERDS, 1971-1972 COLLECTN NUMBER: 7805

Stonewall and the year that followed up to the First Gay Pri, then lled Christopher Street Gay Liberatn Day, changed everythg and everyone the LGBT muny.

Those of om Stonewall and Gay Liberatn Front were rebellg not only agast mastream society but agast those people who marched Philalphia bee we felt they had all lost touch wh our muny. Gay Liberatn Front, born om the ash of Stonewall, gave the movement anizatn the form of radilism.

While the old learship wanted to portray the muny as women drs and men sus and ti, those at Stonewall and the founrs of Gay Liberatn Front drsed jeans and t-shirts and drag or what soon would be nsired “genrf*ck. While the old learship disdaed any public associatn wh trans people, the Gay Liberatn Front weled them as did youth and people of lor.

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While those at the Philalphia march wanted to f wh middle class Ameri, those the Gay Liberatn Front wanted to work alongsi other margalized groups fightg for social jtice. While those at the Philalphia march were pole, those the Gay Liberatn Front were out, loud and -your-face.

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Gui to the Gay Liberatn Front rerds, 1971-1972 .

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