The Gay Liberatn Front: Come Out Interview |

Contents:

• FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT CROSSWORD CLUE
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO
• A ‘EAKG FAG REVOLUTNARY’ REMEMBERS THE EARLY YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN CHIGO
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• GAY LIBERATN FRONT AT ALTERNATE U.
• THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE
• GAY LIB

FOUNDG MEMBER OF THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT CROSSWORD CLUE

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. 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. 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.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT MANIFTO

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.

A ‘EAKG FAG REVOLUTNARY’ REMEMBERS THE EARLY YEARS OF GAY LIBERATN CHIGO

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. 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.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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. 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. Foundg member of the Gay Liberatn Front Answer is: MARSHAPJOHNSONClueAnswerFoundg member of the Gay Liberatn FrontMARSHAPJOHNSON___-A-Fella rerd label found by Jay-ZROC___ Zuckerberg, Co-founr Of Facebook Who Was Time "Person Of The Year" In 2010MARK___ Wolfe Herd, entreprenr who is the founr of BumbleWHITNEY___ Way Productns productn pany found by actor Leonardo DiCapr that -produced The RevenantAPPIAN___ Von D Bety, eponymo vegan make-up brand found by the tattoo artistKAT___ upon (found unexpectedly)CHANCED___ Toyoda, ventor of an tomated fabric-weavg vice who is the father of Toyota's founrSAKICHI___ to be found (totally gone)NOWHERE___ tiger (speci found India)BENGAL___ the Great, founr of the first Persian empireCYRUS___ the 25-Down, founr of the kgdom of HawaiiKAMEHAMEHA___ Takahata, Japane director and -founr of Stud GhibliISAO___ Strss nim pany founrLEVI___ Star Cosmetics, eponymo vegan make-up brand om Ameri found by the ter sensatnJEFFREE___ Soros, Hungarian-born Amerin vtor who found and fund the Open Society FoundatnsGEORGE___ Software Foundatn, subject of a Nativ Tech name-change mpaign 2023APACHE___ Sise FoundatnGARY___ Shortz, Amerin puzzle creator who found the World Puzzle ChampnshipWILL___ Sd, founr of Sdi ArabiaIBN___ Sanrs (fast-food anchise founr)COLONEL___ salt, seasong found 33a that is a okg stapleTABLE___ Reviews, Amerin book review magaze found 1933KIRKUS___ Rsa, journalist who -found RapplerMARIA___ Price, -founr of Price Club 1976SOL___ Peretti, -founr of BuzzFeed who graduated om the Massachetts Instute of Technology Media LabJONAHDid you get the rrect answer for your Foundg member of the Gay Liberatn Front crossword clue?

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. 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.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

When the annual Pri Para steps off om the tersectn of Broadway and Montrose at noon on Sunday, June 30—wh Lori Lightfoot, Chigo’s first openly gay mayor, servg as honorary grand marshal— will reprent a very different md-set om the event that lnched the pri para tradn. Between 150 and 300 people (pendg on which acunt you read) showed up to celebrate what our flyer promotg the event clared ( all pal letters) was: “THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF GAY PEOPLE TELLING THE WARPED, SICK, MALADJUSTED, PURITAN AMERIKAN SOCIETY THAT THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH SHIT.

JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

”That flyer is on display as part of “Out of the Closets & Into the Streets: Power, Pri & Ristance Chigo’s Gay Liberatn Movement, ” a new exhib at Gerber/Hart Library and Archiv, the midwt’s largt LGBTQ library and rearch center. Conceived by the library’s director, Wil Brant, and curated by a team of young volunteers cludg profsnal librarians Chase Ollis and Jam Conley and signer Kurt Conley, the display is drawn om Gerber/Hart’s extensive archival march marked the first anniversary of a rt New York Cy on June 28, 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay nightclub Greenwich Village owned by the Genove crime fay, reacted vlently to what had begun as a route police raid. That event, and the events leadg up to and followg , are well vered a new book, The Stonewall Rts: A Documentary History by Marc Ste (NYU Prs) that first Stonewall anniversary march wasn’t the first activy of Chigo Gay Liberatn, which started up fall 1969 after Universy of Chigo grad stunt Henry Wiemhoff placed an ad the Chigo Maroon stunt newspaper seekg a gay roommate.

The first public Gay Lib event I participated was a prott four months before the Stonewall march, on the snowy afternoon of Wednday, Febary 25, 1970, outsi the Loop headquarters of the Women’s Bar Associatn of Illois. The blond, mcular p was notor for entrappg gay men Lln Park rtrooms; wearg street cloth, he would pretend to solic guys for sex and then arrt them if they rpond to his vatn.

Mattache Midwt, an tablished “homophile” anizatn town, published Manley’s picture s mimeographed monthly newsletter and mockgly suggted Manley himself was a closet se: “If I were gay and I didn’t want anybody to know, and I felt very, very guilty, I thk I might get a job where I uld cise the public tert, ” wrote David Stienecker, the newsletter’s edor. Our aim was not to boytt the movie—which ed waspish humor to illtrate the pathologil, self-hatg behavr of a group of gay New York men—but to e as a teachg opportuny. As historian Timothy Stewart-Wter, thor of Queer Clout: Chigo and the Rise of Gay Polics (Universy of Pennsylvania Prs), reunts a Slate article tled “Beyond Stonewall: How Gay History Looks Different From Chigo”:.

GAY LIBERATN FRONT AT ALTERNATE U.

Memorabilia om the early days of the Chigo Gay Alliance on display at Gerber/ Chase OllisThe Gerber/Hart exhib clus pi of the mimeographed newsletters that Gay Lib ed to spread s msage those long-ago pre-Inter days. After publishg a one time “Gay Pri” paper to promote the 1971 Pri Para (which by then had been reloted to the Lln Park/Lakeview area on the north si), Robson put out two edns of The Paper, a 1972 tabloid that vered lol LGBTQ arts and polics.

But by then the cy had s first (more or ls) regularly published newspaper, the Chigo Gay Csar, eded by activist Michael Bergeron wh py edg supervisn by his lover Bill Kelley. A dart board bearg the image of Ana Bryant’s face, sold rponse to her anti-gay mpaignCred: Chase OllisThe succs of the June 1970 Stonewall anniversary march (no one got arrted!

GL’s women’s and Black uc went off their own directns; the Black uc turned to Third World Gay Revolutnari, led by Ortez Alrson, who went to prison for stroyg draft rerds downstate Pontiac. Wh the rult that the group suffered a schism and a large number of members announced they were formg a new group—not a new uc—to be lled ‘The Chigo Gay Alliance.

THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT PUBLISHED ONE 1971 CROSSWORD CLUE

All prent exprsed a sire to avoid the fightg of petive groups other ci”—a reference to the ternece turf wars that tore at the fabric of New York’s gay muny around the same but issue of the CGA newsletter November 1970 explaed: “The Chigo Gay Alliance is actively terted alleviatg the ghetto (whether spirual or physil) ndns of homosexuals, dispellg the psychologil and soclogil mythology that has grown up about the subject of homosexualy, providg referral servic to homosexuals, helpg homosexuals ‘g out’ velop a sense of pri who they are and urage facg the generally hostile outsi world, to provi addnal social outlets so that homosexuals n meet each other as human begs, to change reprsive laws and end police and polil harassment, and to improve munitns between the homosexual and the heterosexual muni. A July 1973 issue of the Chigo Gay Csar reported that 20th Ward alrman Cliff Kelley, workg wh a group lled Illois Gays for Legislative Actn, had troduced legislatn the Chigo Cy Council to prohib discrimatn jobs, hog, and public acmodatns based on sexual orientatn.

The Gay Csar was succeed by the weekly newspaper GayLife, found 1975 by the late Grant Ford, and then by Wdy Cy Tim, found 1985 by Tracy Baim, now publisher of the Rear, and still publishg prt and onle 34 years later. Chigo Gay Liberatn, the Chigo Gay Alliance, and the other groups that sprang up the wake of Stonewall ran out of steam by the end of the , but the sense of empowerment they gave the muny—and the lsons we learned om their succs and setbacks—guid to the 1980s, when the AIDS epimic and the stggle for civil rights at the cy, unty, and state level drove a new activist spir. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

GAY LIB

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.