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GAY THE GAA - ONE MAN'S STORY
A young GAA player has told OTB Sports about his experienc of beg an openly gay male the sport. On the pch, Brian said he had not faced any discrimatn as a gay man.
Jt bee you're gay don't mean you n't play football, don't fall to the stereotyp and jt be who you want to be. The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) formed December 1969 and beme the most fluential Amerin gay liberatn polil activist anizatn the early 1970s. This former firehoe SoHo served as the headquarters of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) om 1971 to 1974.
GAA was formed December 1969 when a number of members, led by Jim Owl, Marty Robson, and Arthur Evans, broke away om the more radil Gay Liberatn Front. The exclive purpose of GAA, the leadg and largt Amerin gay liberatn polil activist anizatn of the early 1970s, was to advance LGBT civil and social rights. GAA was the first group to adopt the lambda as a gay symbol 1970.
GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE FIREHOE
The buildg was also ed for meetgs and events by Lbian Femist Liberatn, Gay Youth, the Gay Men’s Health Project, and the Catholic group Digny. The Firehoe was also the se of Jonathan Ned Katz’s semal play Comg Out: A Documentary Play About Gay Life & Liberatn the U. In Arnie Kantrowz‘s book Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay (1977), he scribed the spatial age of the buildg: the basement had space for mtee meetgs; general membership meetgs and danc were held on the first floor; the send floor had a snack bar and mtee meetgs space; and the third floor had offic and addnal mtee meetgs space.
Of the fire, GAA print Morty Manford stated that was “part of a wave of harassment agast gays. In June 2019, based on remendatns by the NYC LGBT Historic S Project, the NYC Landmarks Prervatn Commissn (LPC) signated the Gay Activists Alliance Firehoe a New York Cy Landmark. Gay Activists Alliance Prott at New York Cy Police Headquarters.
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was formed December 1969 by Jim Owl, Marty Robson, Arthur Evans, Arthur Bell, and others, who beme disaffected by the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), the first LGBT group formed right after Stonewall. Foced exclively on “the liberatn of gay people, ” GAA beme the most fluential Amerin gay liberatn activist anizatn the early 1970s.
GAY ACTIVISTS ALLIANCE
While the pickets and actns by earlier homophile groups the 1960s, like the Mattache Society’s Sip-In at Juli’, had been peaceful, the post-Stonewall groups, cludg GAA, GLF, and Radilbians, were more nontatnal.
This was the “zap, ” a direct, surprise public nontatn wh polil figur and rporate and ernmental enti regardg gay rights and discrimatn, signed to ga gay and straight media attentn. “Marty Robson, ” Kay Tob (Lahen), The Gay Csars (New York: PaperBack Library, 1972).