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GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE
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). Marc Rub, “GAA Mt Be Rtored to History, ” Gay Today, July 1999,.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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. Our MissnGLAA was found 1971 as the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance, and updated 2017 to be more clive of the LGBTQ muny. The rerds (1970-83) reflect the activi of a homophile anizatn of New York Cy which was dited to the achievement of civil rights for gays through ant, non-vlent means and which beme a lear the gay liberatn movement durg s more ant phase followg the Stonewall Rts of 1969.
Includ are rrponnce and llateral rerds of s prcipal mte cludg Ad Hoc Intro 2, Agprop, Executive, Fair Employment, Legal Actn, Municipal Government, Natnal Gay Movement, and News and Media Relatns Commtee. The rerds document GAA's stggle to obta fair hog and employment legislatn for gays New York Cy and State, the repeal of legislatn rpectg sodomy and solicatn, the endg of police harassment and entrapment of gays, and s role as a lear promotg the velopment of gay rights groups other ci.