Gay Liberatn Front Manifto, London 1971 | Peter Tatchell

Contents:

• THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 (9)
• THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE IN 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO, LONDON 1971
• LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971
• THIS IS WHAT BRA’S GAY LIBERATN FRONT MOVEMENT LOOKED LIKE THE 1970S
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT RERDS, 1971-1972 COLLECTN NUMBER: 7805
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• LAWRENCE GAY LIBERATN FRONT
• GAY LIBERATN ONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE
• MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE

This answers first letter of which starts wh M and n be found at the end of Gay Liberatn Front published one 1971 Answer is: MANIFESTOClueAnswerThe Gay Liberatn Front published one 1971MANIFESTO“The ___ of the Garn, ” 1911 text of poem by Rudyard Kiplg and C.

)KEEPOFF___ the gold medal (won)BIT___ the Gobl Kg ("Labyrth" role for David Bowie)JARETHDid you get the rrect answer for your The Gay Liberatn Front published one 1971 crossword clue? It was at this pot the emergence of a divi wh the gay activist movement occurred maly due to a difference iologi, after which a number of groups cludg Organisatn for Lbian and Gay Actn (OLGA), Stonewall Equaly Limed (which foced on lobby tactics), the Lbian Avengers and OutRage! Guardian The Gay Liberatn Front's social revolutnA brief history of the Gay Liberatn Front, 1970-73Dr Clifford Williams talkg about the GLF on the 50th Anniversary 2020.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT

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. 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. 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.

THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 (9)

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. On the 27th June, 1969 as part of s policy of raidg and closg Gay Bars, the New York Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn to rough up the ctomers and make a few arrts. 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.

THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE IN 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE

An Anti-Psychiatry Group foced on analysg and attackg the Psychiatric Establishments wholale acceptance of Juo Christian prejudice, Biblil thory, and the e of electric shock/emetic dg programm on gays and lbians who did not f , or who were found guilty of breakg the law. An Actn Group anisg public GLF danc held lol town halls, and later the Gay Days the parks, an Office Collective, and the Steerg Group, later the Co-ordatg Commtee to n the Wednday night General Meetgs.

In all about a hundred gay men and lbians were active the var GLF Groups, while by mid-January, ’71 there were up to five hundred people a week attendg the General Meetg, which suggts that many thoands of gay men and lbians passed through the doors. David Rben’s book, “Everythg you wanted to know about sex – but were aaid to ask”, which claimed to tell ndid facts whilst avoidg moral judgement and the sectns on gays and lbians ntaed referenc to light bulbs, cucumbers, and the e of wire at hangers for abortns. In July ’72 the first Gay Pri march left Trafalgar Square and marched to Hy Park for the Gay Pri Party, wh over a thoand attendance, and acpanied by two thoand police.

Consistent monstratns agast the psychiatric tablishment and raids on their nferenc where GLF took over the agenda eventually lead to the overthrow of the ia that homosexualy was a medil ndn. At the end of ’71 ser spls were occurrg between the men who saw ‘g out’ as only the first step the transformatn of gay men and the send the nontatn wh the social ials of masculy, and sexism, whilst followg the Manifto aim of movg toward munal livg. Opposg them were the men who ignored the Manifto, refed to acknowledge their heterosexist quali, were learng to mpaign on sgle issu, but need, as straight men do, an anised stcture which to operate, one that gay lib was liberately signed not to provi.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO, LONDON 1971

The gay men were not terted munal works, but promotg their dividual selv on the back of issu and mpaigns that GLF eher pursued or generated s opponents. In June me the first issue of ‘Gay News’ published by a group ntag many 'straight gays' om the GLF Actn Group, and immediately laid down a format for savg the natn om the screamg red queens and faggots of gay lib. The Office Collective had been neglected and had turned to an Admistratn by supporters of ‘Gay News’ and those who liked to be near the exchang of rmatn and money.

There was Gay Swchboard, Bethnal Rouge, The Brixton Faeri, Gay Men’s Prs om the Media Group, and the world-renowned theatre troupe ‘Bloolips’ om the Street Theatre Group. One of the great legaci of GLF was that when HIV/Aids was intified there already existed groups, and works of dividuals who had been part of, or been touched by, the forever ongog sexual revolutn begun by the Gay Liberatn Front.

LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971

By the example of GLF the new activists HIV/Aids were able to immediately challenge the attus towards gays of the medil orthodoxy and quickly took over the entire culture surroundg the panmic.

(Hall-Carpenter Archiv via London School of Enomics Library)Last month marked the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act, a landmark piece of legislatn the Uned Kgdom that ceased the prosecutn of men for homosexual acts.

THIS IS WHAT BRA’S GAY LIBERATN FRONT MOVEMENT LOOKED LIKE THE 1970S

It wasn’t a perfect law by any means — did not fully crimalize sexual acts wh persons of the same sex — but was the first legislative step toward equaly for LGBTQ people unr Brish to the 1970s, few gay people Bra were publicly out and even fewer publicly mpaigned. Recently, such papers and prts the Hall-Carpenter Archiv at the London School of Enomics (LSE) were brought together for Glad to be Gay: The Stggle for Legal Equaly, an exhibn of ephemera and social movement wns the gathergs, thk-s, polil actns, and march.

Inspired by the GLF movement the Uned Stat, the UK GLF drew up mands and foced on group activi to root those mands — street theatre, “gay days, ” ftivals, and s-s.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO

Its activi led to London’s first Gay Pri March curator of Glad To Be Gay, Gillian Murphy, explas that until the 1950s homosexualy was a taboo subject. Male homosexualy was illegal and lbianism wasn’t even regnized as an emotnal, sexual, or social 1957, UK Parliament published the Wolfenn Report, which remend that the law should no longer judge nor punish sex nducted private between nsentg same-sex adults.

It formalized the legal age of nsent at 21 ( was lowered to 18 1994, and to 16 until 2001) and as a rult, vast numbers of young gay adults, their love, remaed outsi the law. Lifelong gay rights activist Peter Tatchell said his book Europe The Pk (1992) that the 1967 Sexual Offenc Act actually facilated an crease prosecutns agast homosexual men.

Newly tablished grassroots anizatns such as the Jot Council for Gay Teenagers, Gay Activists Alliance, and FRIEND (Fellowship for the Relief of the Isolated and Emotnally Need and Distrs) met specific needs of diverse groups wh the LGBTQ muny. 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.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT RERDS, 1971-1972 COLLECTN NUMBER: 7805

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. The documentary chronicl the years-long mpaign which led the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn (APA) to remove homosexualy om s manual of mental disorrs. Homosexualy had once been the purview of the Church, but people no longer believed so much s, and so me to be rebrand as somethg more credible for the tim.

By the 1960s, a large majory of Amerins believed homosexualy to be a mental illns, and many looked upon gays wh varyg mixtur of disgt, disfort, and fear. The most mon “treatment” at the time was talk therapy, but many gay men and women were subjected to more aggrsive terventns such as aversn therapy and electronvulsive therapy—even, extremis, stratn or lobotomy.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organizatn Geneva only removed homosexualy om s Internatnal Classifitn of Diseas (ICD) wh the publitn of ICD-10 1992, although ICD-10 still rried the nstct of "ego-dystonic sexual orientatn. As I discs The Meang of Madns, the evolutn of the stat of homosexualy the classifitns of mental disorrs highlights that ncepts of mental disorr n be rapidly evolvg social nstcts that change as society chang.

THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

Today, the standard of psychotherapy the US and Europe is gay affirmative psychotherapy, which enurag gay people to accept their sexual orientatn—although some licensed profsnals still nduct so-lled "nversn therapy.

Gay marriage has been legal for some years now, but the old notns of s and mental illns, of guilt and aquacy, live on the llective nscns, cludg the substance of gay people born long after the 1970s.

In May 1970, Gary Alr and fellow members of the activist group the Berkeley Gay Liberatn Front attend — or, as Alr later reunted, “vad” — the Natnal Conventn of the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn San Francis.

LAWRENCE GAY LIBERATN FRONT

The activists’ purpose was clear: They planned to nont the more than 10, 000 psychiatrists prent about the APA’s signatn of homosexualy as a mental illns. The anizatn had mataed that characterizatn sce 1952, when first officially classified homosexualy as a “socpathic personaly disturbance” the first edn of s manual. ”“As long as the psychiatric tablishment labeled and classified gay people as mentally ill, the nsequenc of that were really far-reachg — both terms of society’s perceptns and unwillgns to nsir civil rights or steps towards equaly for gay people, and also terms of gay peopl’ perceptns of ourselv, ” Sger said.

Alr’s qutng of psychiatrists’ domant characterizatns of gay people had begun a few years earlier, when he was a stunt at the Universy of Mnota the 1960s. C., New York's 1970 Christopher Street Liberatn Day Tob / The New York Public LibraryAt the 1971 APA nventn, activist and astronomer Frank Kameny mand that the psychiatrists provi proof of their so-lled theori that homosexualy was a mental illns — a requt they were unable to fulfill. Associatn's 1972 nventn by scribg his life as a closeted gay Tob / The New York Public Library“Cured” featur imag and d of Fryer’s speech, which showed “what was at stake for John Fryer and for gay psychiatrists at the time, ” Sger said.

GAY LIBERATN ONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE

” When the APA cid to remove homosexualy as a mental illns 1973, “ was really a fundamental buildg block for the progrs that emerged after, ” Sger said, potg to the feral ernment’s liftg the ban, 1975, on the employment of gay people the civil service; 20 stat’ repealg their sodomy laws over the 1970s; the repeal 2011 of “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” which allowed gays and lbians to serve openly the ary; and the legalizatn of same-sex marriage 2015. He strsed the importance of “gay pri” and listed the major goals of the gay liberatn movement as beg regnn, unrstandg, equal rights and achievement of an inty that was “not tablished by the straights.

Ten more years would go by before the Gay and Lbian Servic of Kansas (as the Front was then known) was officially registered and received fundg om the Stunt Senate. Episo NotThe Stonewall uprisg ign an explosn of protts and anizg that transforms a small, often tentative homophile movement to a newly assertive natnal force that mands gay liberatn and equaly. MGH episo featurg Joyce Hunter wh acpanyg episo Wtman:Full text of Wtman’s “Gay Manifto” (1971 eratn; Universy of Washgton Librari, Special Collectns).

MAKINGGAYHISTORY—THE PODCAST

Overview of Rivera’s activism durg the early gay liberatn era The Gay Liberatn Youth Movement New York: “An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail” by Stephan L. Cred: Diana Davi, urty of the Mancripts and Archiv Divisn, The New York Public York State gay rights bill:1971 march on Albany words and imag (LGBT Communy Center). Article about the passage of New York State’s gay rights bill, 31 years later (New York Tim, December 17, 2002) Newton on gay liberatn:1970 manifto which Newton lls for an alliance between the Black Panthers and the women’s liberatn and gay liberatn movements (open letter the Black Panther Party newspaper, Augt 21, 1970, page 5).

Issu of Come Out!, GLF’s newspaper, 1969-1972 (OutHistory) episo featurg Martha Shelley wh acpanyg episo Shelley holdg the Gay Liberatn Front publitn “Come Out!

———Prottors: Gay Activists Alliance, don’t [overlappg voic]…Jim Owl, print of the Gay Activists Alliance, seated at the cy clerk’s sk wh same-sex weddg ke, durg the GAA’s marriage bure zap at the New York Cy Municipal Buildg, June 4, 1971. Okay, Evans of the Gay Activists Alliance nonts examer Murray Rockowz about discrimatn faced by LGBTQ teachers at the GAA’s Board of Examers zap Brooklyn, New York, January 25, 1971.