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- LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971
- GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
- HOW THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO HELPED TO SHAPE ME
- GAY LIBERATN FRONT
- WHEN GAYS WANTED TO LIBERATE CHILDREN
LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971
From the llectns of the Sparrows' Nt Library and Archive. Gay Liberatn Front Manifto Published 1971. Published by GLF Gay Liberatn... * gay liberation front manifesto *
It offers a radil crique of sexism and what we now ll homophobia; as well as a pneerg, far-sighted agenda for both social and personal transformatn. They rema h, novative, challengg and spirg; stratospher above the equent medcry of today’s lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) polics. Although cril of the misogyny and homophobia of the “straight left”, posned the LGBT stggle as part of the broar anti-palist, anti-imperialist movement, strivg for the emancipatn of all humankd.
In orr to build this alliance, the brothers gay liberatn will have to be prepared to sacrifice that gree of male chvism and male privilege that they still all posss. It criqu homophobia, sexism, marriage, the nuclear fay, monogamy, the cults of youth and bety, patriarchy, the gay ghetto and rigid male and female genr rol. Wh gay liberatn, a number of nscns-raisg groups have already veloped, which we try to unrstand our opprsn and learn new ways of thkg and behavg.
It n easily be seen that homosexuals don’t f to the stereotyp of mascule and feme and this is one of the ma reasons why we bee the object of spicn, sce everyone is tght that the and only the two rol are appropriate…. “The long-term goal of Gay Liberatn, which evably brgs to nflict wh the stutnalised sexism of this society, is to rid society of the genr-role system which is at the root of our opprsn. But gay men don’t need to opprs women orr to fulfil their own psycho-sexual needs, and gay women don’t have to relate sexually to the male opprsor, so that at this moment time, the et and most equal relatnships are most likely to be between homosexuals.
GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
* gay liberation front manifesto *
gay, society, male, opprsn, homosexualy, straight, fay, mascule, liberatn, women, gay people, gay men, gay liberatn, straight people, sexist culture, male chvism, small fay, gay women, fay un. Furthermore some materials nta triggerg ntent which is racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, natnalistic, anti-Semic, ableist, ageist, or otherwise not reprentative of the movement.
HOW THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO HELPED TO SHAPE ME
A radil manifto for gay liberatn published by the Marxist cell of the US Gay Liberatn Front 1970. * gay liberation front manifesto *
Many gay rights anisatns that emerged durg the urse of the 1980s and 1990s would have their re prcipl rooted the work of the manifto digised here is the first what will bee an onle library of key LGBTQ+ texts om the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, held the Special Collectns and Archiv here at the Manifto, 1971GLF Manifto, 1979Further readg our LGBTQ+ CollectnsWhat We Do.
GAY LIBERATN FRONT
A short acunt of the Gay Liberatn Front the UK, wrten by Stuart Feather. * gay liberation front manifesto *
Although cril of the misogyny and homophobia of the "straight left", posned the LGBT stggle as part of the broar anti-palist, anti-imperialist movement, strivg for the emancipatn of all importantly, argued that LGBT people need to embrace and ally wh femism: "As we nnot rry out this revolutnary change alone … we will work to form a strategic alliance wh the women's liberatn movement … In orr to build this alliance, the brothers gay liberatn will have to be prepared to sacrifice that gree of male chvism and male privilege that they still all posss. It criqu homophobia, sexism, marriage, the nuclear fay, monogamy, the cults of youth and bety, patriarchy, the gay ghetto and rigid male and female genr well as opposg the way thgs are, outl an alternative visn, cludg livg munally, genr-subversive radil drag and non-posssive multi-partner open relatnships. In echo of Franz Fanon and Mallm X, stated that the prendn for this social revolutn is transformg our own nscns and liv: "The startg pot of our liberatn mt be to rid ourselv of the opprsn which li the head of every one of … we mt root out the ia that homosexualy is bad, sick or immoral, and velop a gay pri.
Subvertg the supremacy of heterosexual masculy was the key to genue manifto argu that much LGBT opprsn rults om the way we queers viate om the socially prcribed, orthodox genr rol of mascule and feme: "By our very existence as gay people, we challenge the rol.
This failure to meet tradnal genr expectatns is profoundly threateng to straight male supremacism: "The long-term goal of gay liberatn, which evably brgs to nflict wh the stutnalised sexism of this society, is to rid society of the genr-role system which is at the root of our opprsn. The poal of "radil drag" and "genr-benr" polics is a ll to opt out of male privilege – an attempt to subvert the opprsivens of heterosexual masculy bee we unrstood that staed both the subordatn of women and same-sex manifto posed that LGBT people were often the foreont of this important stggle: "Gay shows the way.
WHEN GAYS WANTED TO LIBERATE CHILDREN
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It should also be clear that the are the views of one person, and are termed not only by my homosexualy, but my beg whe, male, middle class. The reason so few of are bisexual is bee society ma such a big stk about homosexualy that we got forced to seeg ourselv as eher straight or non-straight.
Gays will beg to turn on to women when 1) 's somethg that we do bee we want to, and not bee we should, and 2) when women's liberatn chang the nature of heterosexual relatnships. The existence of a lbian uc wh the New York Gay Liberatn Front has been very helpful challengg male chvism among gay guys, and anti-gay feelgs among women's lib.