Contents:
- ARE THERE LGBTQ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER) ROURC AT KU?
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBTQ+) HEALTH, WELLNS AND SUPPORT
- KU, MUNY PARTNERS SPONSORG '51 YEARS OUT! CELEBRATG GAY LIBERATN HISTORY OF KU AND LAWRENCE'
ARE THERE LGBTQ (LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER) ROURC AT KU?
Hook up the swch and break the board game out wh the KU Gaymers. History of QT anizatns LawrenceIn rponse to the Stonewall Rts New York Cy, as well as the burgeong movement for sexual liberatn, the late 1960s marked the proliferatn of gay and lbian muny anizatns and stunt anizatns on llege and universy mp across the Uned Stat.
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR (LGBTQ+) HEALTH, WELLNS AND SUPPORT
In 1970, stunts at the Universy of Kansas anized to form a gay and lbian stunt anizatn tled the "Lawrence Gay Liberatn Front, " as a nod towards the Gay Liberatn Front that had formed New York Cy.
Acrdg to an article the Fall 1991 GALA Update (a KU LGBT alumni newsletter) by Michael Nelson and Charl Dedmon: "Unattached groups of gay people existed who were terted formg a lol Gay Liberatn Front. David Stout (a gay social work stunt, workg on a paper about alternative liftyl), beme the advertent founr of GLF when one of his terviewe tacked a msage wh his name and phone number at strategic plac on mp equented by gay men. "The note enuraged people to attend a meetg for gay/lbian stunts (lled Gay Liberatn Front, but not yet officially named), and to make their prence known to the mp as a whole and to fd a better qualy of life as a gay person.
Th began two of Queers & Alli' central goals-tg through mp visibily, and the formatn of a nurturg, supportive s earlit days, the Lawrence Gay Liberatn Front faced multiple challeng. After the Chancellor nied their requt by statg, "sce we are not persuad that stunt activy funds should be alloted eher to support or to oppose the sexual proclivi of stunts, particularly when they might lead to vlatn of state law, the Universy of Kansas cl to formally regnize the Lawrence Gay Liberatn Front" (KU news release about the Lawrence Gay Liberatn Front, September 5, 1970) beg nied formal regnn om Chancellor Chalmers, the stunts of the Lawrence Gay Liberatn Front filed a lawsu agast the Universy of Kansas for gg on their first and fourteenth amendment rights.
KU, MUNY PARTNERS SPONSORG '51 YEARS OUT! CELEBRATG GAY LIBERATN HISTORY OF KU AND LAWRENCE'
This trated the stunts of the Lawrence Gay Liberatn Front, but they did not disband.