An oral history of five gay activists who traveled across the US to jo the Black Panther's Constutnal Conventn and envisn a new Ameri.
Contents:
- THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOO?
- (1970) HUEY P. NEWTON, “THE WOMEN’S LIBERATN AND GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENTS”
- THE INCREDIBLE TE ADVENTURE OF FIVE GAY ACTIVISTS SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
- THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOO
- DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS
THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOO?
By Perry Brass Few stanc the morn movement for gay and lbian equaly (what we now ll the LGBT movement) produced as much ntroversy -- and * black panthers gay liberation *
Few stanc the morn movement for gay and lbian equaly (what we now ll the LGBT movement) produced as much ntroversy — and turmoil — as the New York Gay Liberatn Front’s relatnship wh the Black Panthers, a late 1960s-early 1970s radil anizatn that stood for the plete overthrow of the palist Amerin ernment to achieve equaly for Ain-Amerins. The Gay Liberatn Front was the first and most radil anizatn to be formed after the Stonewall Rts (or Uprisg) June of 1969.
(1970) HUEY P. NEWTON, “THE WOMEN’S LIBERATN AND GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENTS”
Abstract. This article shows how the path of the gay liberatn movement the Bay Area was shaped by s relatnship to the Black Panther Party (BPP). Prev * black panthers gay liberation *
It is difficult to image this time of social workg and, too often, smetics-ep “celebry” polics, any anizatn as dited to plete rebelln as the Panthers, or for that matter the Gay Liberatn Front. The Gay Liberatn Front took most of s cu om femism and the femist movement. The money was raised by a weekly gay-muny dance at Alternate Universy, a large space on 14th Street and Sixth Avenue that was home to many radil anizatns and their activi.
There were young street queens sleepg on siwalks or out on the piers on the Hudson; olr gays and lbians stgglg to eat; and, also, an ia floatg around that we should start our own muny center. It was a turng pot this explosive perd of gay polics.
THE INCREDIBLE TE ADVENTURE OF FIVE GAY ACTIVISTS SEARCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
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A lot of olr, old-school activists who had been Mattache Society members were self-righteoly sure this was gog to be the last nail the ff of the rambunctly youthful Gay Liberatn Front: The self-styled gay “radils” were only tryg to buy a polilly rrect versn of “righteons” — wrapped si a distorted mirror-image of tough street credibily — by fundg an anizatn that was om the outset unr nstant police surveillance. It fanned a smug reactn also wh the broar gay muny self, that still shared an attu that everythg to do wh blackns was outsi — and outsi most “normal” human feelgs as well.
The gift also spurred a sh for some polilly active men to jo the Gay Activists Alliance, a newer petg group started by ex-GLFers who only wanted a sgle-issue, gay-foced anizatn that would appeal basilly to whe, middle-class men. He said about women and gays that, bee of the pth of their opprsn, they uld be as “revolutnary as anyone, maybe even more so, ” spe the fact that, for many black men, their first gut reactn wh women was “to tell them to shut up, ” and wh gays was, well, to — “punch them the face.
What they did not see was that this was the first time that an open and actively gay anizatn had embraced another opprsed group, as part of regnizg a mon opprsn wh them. The tth was the Gay Liberatn Front unrstood this 1970.
THE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOOTHE BLACK PANTHERS AND THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT: DID BLACK LIV MATTER THEN, TOO
Few stanc the morn movement for gay and lbian equaly produced as much ntroversy-and turmoil-as the New York Gay Liberatn Front’s relatnship wh the Black Panthers, a late 1960’s-early 1970’s radil anizatn that stood for the * black panthers gay liberation *
Photo Cred: Robert Carl Cohen, 1970 the Black Panther Party ved Jean Ge, the famo French gay wrer and activist, to the U. '"Angela Davis charted the important lks between black polil nscns and gay rights that same speech:"One last important pot: It was Ge who heightened the Black Panther Party awarens to the homosexual rights issue. David Hilliard told me that when they were travelg together om state to state, om one universy to another, some members of the party were g very and homophobic words to sult Nixon or (U.
DIFFERENT FIGHT, 'SAME GOAL': HOW THE BLACK EEDOM MOVEMENT SPIRED EARLY GAY ACTIVISTS
He had jt wanted to brg about a discsn on the siari between the stggle agast racism and the stggle agast homophobia. After the trips 1970, David Hilliard and his mat largely spoke of the matter wh Huey Newton (the Black Panther Party's print, jail at the time) and later published an important article the party's newspaper, sayg:"Whatever your personal opns and your securi about homosexualy and the var liberatn movements among homosexuals and women (Ge also had spokenabout women's liberatn durg his stay, acrdg to Davis), we should try to une wh them a revolutnary fashn.