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

Contents:

• HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO
• DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER PANY’S RPONSE TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
• HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

HUGE ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PROTT MARCH PARIS

The topic was aversn therapy, a form of psdoscientific nversn therapy which gay men were admistered electric shocks and other stimuli to “cure” their sexual attractn to other Silverste wasn’t there to learn.

The laws were ed to jtify sweeps of spected gay bars and public parks, and LGBTQ people risked public huiatn, job loss, and even crimal prosecutn for their gay and lbian groups that emerged durg the 1950s and 1960s did publicly prott anti-LGBTQ discrimatn.

But though there were some rts and noisy nontatns durg the era, protts were typilly well-mannered monstratns like the “Annual Remr, ” a yearly event at which protters bs attire quietly picketed Philalphia’s Inpennce Hall an attempt to show gay men as orrly, ntributg members of me the June 28, 1969, Stonewall uprisg. In 1971, for example, the GAA and the Dghters of Bilis, a lbian group, targeted Filifacts, a New York-based pany that performed background checks and was acced of vtigatg and targetg LGBTQ pany’s print had stated that his le of thumb for intifyg gay people was that “if looks like a duck, walks like a duck, associat only wh ducks and quacks like a duck, he is probably a duck.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

In ont of a live dience of 60 ln viewers, Mark Allan Segal, a member of a small group lled the Gay Rairs and an acplished zapper, jumped ont of the mera and held up a sign that said “Gays Prott CBS Prejudice.

” He was prottg major works’ pictn of LGBTQ people and the way their verage ignored thgs like gay pri paras and equaly worked: Not only did the work beg verg LGBTQ issu, but Cronke beiend Segal and began to report on the stggl and succs of the movement.

Hdman not; by the end of the 1970s, there were more than 2, then, however, zaps had mostly fad away as movement lears, facg public cricism and fightg over ant prott tactics, began to ph for LGBTQ rights on a natnal sle through anizatns like the Natnal Gay Task Force (now the Natnal LGBTQ Task Force) legacy lived on, however, and the tactic was revived the late 1980s, when participants the AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT UP) began a seri of powerfully disptive monstratns that drew upon zap tactics. "We had to show rpectabily bee of the public sentiment towards gay people at that time, " he told the Associated Prs the four years followg the first prott, a growg number of people took part the Annual Remrs outsi Philalphia, where the Declaratn of Inpennce and U.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

On Tuday, a far-right historian shot himself ad Notre Dame thedral, leavg msag which he nounced gay Sunday's protts, monstrators head lumns om a number of pots Paris to the Invalis ptn, Clash broke out after the ma monstratn fishedSome marchers drove donkeys, one of which bore a plard which read: "I am an ass. Opposn to gay marriage has bee nflated wh all sorts of other anti-ernment grievanc g om the right and the atmosphere the untry is particularly volatile, the BBC's Hugh Schofield is now the nth untry Europe, and 14th globally, to legalise gay on this story. This show of vlence uld be nsired a “moment of re-tn, ” showg the police that their stereotypil thkg of “the fairi were not supposed to rt, ” as Bob Kohler said, was wrong, and that gays uld and would fend their rights wh vlence if need.

Ined, the night after the police raid, a spontaneo rally formed, and for the next two nights, there were thoands of monstrators showg their support for what beme the keystone for the emergence of Gay Power. There had been the Compton’s Cafeteria disturbance San Francis the summer of 1966, and the Los Angel’ Black Cat raid early 1967, but neher were publicised much, even wh the gay movement, as they were not seen as worth rememberg (San Francis’s gay movement did not agree wh the ia of rts, and Los Angel’ nsired theirs a failure). The Voice rears might have been the first to see gays scribed a posive way, when journalist Lucian Tstt reported Allen Gsberg had said that “the guys were so betiful – they’ve lost that wound look that fags all had ten years ago.

THE STONEWALL RTS DIDN’T START THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In addn, anisers sisted that the events each cy have police support, to protect the marchers, and official perms, which was both seen as a sign of change, and to force ci to make space for gays on their agenda, which also ntributed to the lastg succs of the memoratn. Ined, the Gay Liberatn Front was created only a week later, the Queens Liberatn Front a few months after that, and the Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari was born a year later, fluenced by -founr of the Black Panther Party, Hey Newton’s public statement supportg gay rights – all transformg the movement, mobilisg thoands of new activists, and givg life to the legend of Stonewall.

WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT THE FIRST GAY RIGHTS DEMONSTRATN OUTSI WHE HOE 50 YEARS AGO

Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

DISNEY EMPLOYE ARE STAGG WALKOUTS OVER PANY’S RPONSE TO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Crage tail four prev police raids on gay bars ci across the Uned Stat that prompted activist rpons—and lol gas—but that eher fad om lol memory, did not spire memoratns that lasted, or did not motivate activists other ci. For example, San Francis activists mobilized rponse to police raids on gay bars the early 1960s, which me to a head durg a raid on a New Year’s Eve ball 1965 that eventually brought down the police missner.

PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI

I believed “sex toys” for gay men stopped at dildos and prostate stimulators, and I did not nsir them legimate sex play all on their own.[RELATED: "30 Kky Terms Every Gay Man Needs to Know"]In the years sce, I have learned that there are many gay sex toys out there beyond anal toys, although the are certaly the majory, and anal toys toys are more than substutns for penis. You uld sur the Inter or make expensive pilgrimag to your neart big cy to vis a sexual retailer tered exclively to gay men — nearly every big cy has one — or you uld start wh this list of 39 sex toys you have to try, some of which are for begners and others for seasoned adventurists. — -- Pl Kuntzler said that when he and ne other people picketed the Whe Hoe 50 years ago today, prottg the ernment's treatment of gays and lbians, he uld not image how far the gay rights movement would e five prott on April 17, 1965, is believed to the first gay rights monstratn, advot say.

HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977

On the 4th July Lbians and Gay Men om the Matache Society New York, rponse to the rts, staged a walk-out and moved to the Alternative Universy Greenwich Village where they found what beme the Gay Liberatn Front. “Not only did liberatnists go to Philalphia to show solidary wh the black movement, but was there that Huey Newton as lear of the Panthers, first gave clear support of the Gay Cse, sayg that homosexuals were maybe the most opprsed people of Amerin society, and uld well be the most revolutnary.

On 13th November, GLF ma the first ever, public monstratn the UK by lbians and gay men at Highbury Fields, Islgton, to prott the e of “pretty policemen” agent provotrs ed by the police to entrap gay men to attemptg acts of gross cency, a standard police practice and an easy way for them to crease the figur for crime tectn and prosecutn.