London Gay Liberatn Front Manifto 1971 | Peter Tatchell Foundatn

Contents:

• GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS
• LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971
• THE GAY AGENDA
• THE GAY AGENDA
• MOVG TO LGBT LONDON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

GAY LONDON, LGBTQ+ CLUBS AND EVENTS

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The Gay Liberatn Front Manifto, published London 1971, was a revolutn nscns and remas so today. 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 I did not wre the Manifto, I was a Gay Liberatn Front (GLF) activist at the time and volved the discsns – and rows – about . 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.

LONDON GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO 1971

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.

The Manifto’s ialistic visn volved creatg a new sexual mocracy, whout homophobia, misogyny, racism and class privilege.

THE GAY AGENDA

It means that we mt root out the ia that homosexualy is bad, sick or immoral, and velop a gay pri. 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.

Revolutnary not reformist, GLF’s Manifto went beyond overturng homophobia and transphobia. The aim was to end “male chvism” and the “genr system”, which were intified as unrpng both sexism and homophobia.

“By our very existence as gay people, we challenge the 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…. Gay men love other men and are often disparaged for beg sufficiently macho.

THE GAY AGENDA

“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. “Gay shows the way. 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.

MOVG TO LGBT LONDON? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world. The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people.

What is Gay Pri or LGBTQ+ Pri? Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni.