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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).
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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.
Our MissnGLAA was found 1971 as the Gay and Lbian Activists Alliance, and updated 2017 to be more clive of the LGBTQ muny.