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	Gay Liberation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gay Liberation (or Gay Lib) is the name used to describe the radical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered movement of the late 1960s and early to mid 1970s in North America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
		Gay Lib is also known for its links to the counterculture of the time, and for the Gay Liberationists' intent to transform fundamental instutions of society such as gender and the family.
		The words "Gay Liberation" echoed "Women's Liberation"; the Gay Liberation Front consciously took its name from the National Liberation Fronts of Vietnam and Algeria; and the slogan "Gay Power", as a defiant answer to the rights-oriented homophile movement, was inspired by Black Power, which was a response to the civil rights movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_Liberation (1204 words)

	Gay Liberation Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was the name of a number of Gay Liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots.
		One of the GLF's first acts was to organize a march in response to Stonewall, and to demand an end to the persecution of homosexuals.
		Groups of GLF members in drag invaded and spontaneously kissed each other; others released mice, sounded horns and unveiled banners, and a contingent dressed as workmen obtained access to the basement and shut off the lights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_Liberation_Front (466 words)

	Gay Liberation Front [London]: Manifesto
		To you, our gay sisters and brothers, we say that you are oppressed; we intend to show you examples of the hatred and fear with which straight society relegates us to the position and treatment of sub-humans, and to explain their basis.
		But gay men don't need to oppress women in order to fulfill their own psycho-sexual needs, and gay women don't have to relate sexually to the male oppressor, so that at this moment in time, the freest and most equal relationships are most likely to be between homosexuals.
		Gay women, like straight men, are rather less into the compulsive search for youth, perhaps because part of their rebellion has been the rejection of themselves as sex objects-like men they see themselves as people; as subjects rather than objects.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/pwh/glf-london.html (5902 words)

	Gay Today: Viewpoint
		First there was The Gay Liberation Front proclaiming loudly, clearly, and brilliantly, the truth that gay is good, that queers had embodied within them all of the genius of Humanity, and owned all privileges of that status.
		The Gay Activists Alliance, the organization that moved GLF's message into a broad political and social reality, achieving concrete changes in governmental response and in the entire social fabric, was not part of anybody's timeline that day in the Cathedral.
		GLF, the Gay Liberation Front, was conceived as being part of the entire Liberation movement, one segment of a worldwide struggle against oppression.
	www.gaytoday.com /garchive/viewpoint/071999vi.htm (1646 words)

	30 Years of Gay Liberation
		The formation of the Gay Liberation Front in London in 1970 was, arguably, the beginning of the modern movement for queer human rights in Britain.
		Back then, it was not uncommon for lesbians and gay men to be sacked from their jobs, arrested for kissing in the street, evicted by homophobic landlords, and denied custody of their children by court order.
		Whereas GLF derided the family as “a patriarchal prison that enslaves women, gays and children”, the biggest gay campaigns of the last two years have been for partnership and parenting rights.
	www.petertatchell.net /history/longway.htm (1598 words)

	Gay Liberation Front: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the GLF's first acts was to march in response to Stonewall to demand an end to the persecution of homosexuals.
		GLF related organisations were started in a number of countries.
		The gay pride or simply pride campaign of the gay rights movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of what they are, that sexual diversity...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ga/gay_liberation_front.htm (698 words)

	GAY LIBERATION
		But the Stonewall Riots and the Gay Liberation Front would not have happened were it not for the enormous social vitality of the times--the Black Power movement, the second wave of feminism, the youth culture, the civil rights movement, the drug culture, the hippies, yippies and rock and roll.
		GLF was hardly perfect in dealing with racism, most of its members were white, much of its discussion about racism involved breast-beating and platitudes.
		It was a difficult fight that pitted the religious right against gay activists and found local school committees--many in communities of color--in conflict with a citywide school board plan implementing new multicultural materials including some materials on AIDS education and gay families.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/sept94bronski.htm (2077 words)

	Queer History at KU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		...Gay people could not claim their legal rights; the person who was injured was forced to remain anonymous because he is gay.
		By denying the Lawrence Gay Liberation Front recognition as a student organization and forcing the gay people of this campus to spend countless hours of their time, effort, and energies preparing a court case and raising hundreds and hundreds of dollars for legal defense costs the university administration is to blame.
		The primary purpose of the Gay Liberation Front is one of education-meeting with classes and groups of people to provide them with the information necessary for an understanding of gay people.
	www.ku.edu /~qanda/history/1972position.html (631 words)

	We Raise Our Voices...Gay Liberation Front (1970)
		The Gay Liberation Front formed in 1970 to take part in the April 15th Moratorium against the Vietnam War on the Boston Common.
		Using the term “liberation,” which was common to the anti-war, women, and civil rights movements, the GLF called for an open society and the freedom for self-expression, as well as an end to bigotry and racism.
		In particular, GLF took a stand against “machismo – that perversion of sexual identity that we’ve allowed to define masculinity and so oppress everyone, both gays and straights alike.” From the William J. Canfield papers.
	www.lib.neu.edu /archives/voices/gl_sexual1.htm (182 words)

	Queer Liberation or commodification? -- News & Letters, May 2003
		Gay men and their supporters gathered outside the bar and held hands, kissed, and chanted.
		Within a month the Gay Liberation Front arose from the struggle of the queers involved in the riot in an effort to overturn existing, oppressive social policies and practices.
		But the queers who composed the new Gay Liberation Front and the pro-queer groups since that era have been stymied in their struggle for queer equality because of their emphasis on a partial rejection of the capitalist machine of oppression.
	www.newsandletters.org /Issues/2003/May/war_May03.htm (717 words)

	Gay Liberation Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Gay Liberation Front was formed by thirty-seven women and men who broke ranks with the conservative homophile establishment, which urged a candlelight march in response to the riots.
		It was only with the advent of the gay liberation movement that we came together to define ourselves and to oppose those institutions which oppressed us for centuries.
		During the powerful reign of the Christian church, many lesbians and gays took refuge in convents and monasteries, in some cases finding some opportunities to express our love with others of the same sex, at other times continually tortured by authorities and our own fear for the feelings we concealed in shame.
	www.angelfire.com /on2/glf2000/Page2.html (1182 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Gay Liberation Front
		GLF's statement of purpose clearly stated its revolutionary goals: "We are a revolutionary group of men and women formed with the realization that complete sexual liberation for all people cannot come about unless existing social institutions are abolished.
		GLF activists argued that the heterosexual family as an institution necessitated the oppression of homosexuals and defined gayness as a form of political resistance.
		GLF also transformed the concept of coming out from a process that gay men and lesbians experienced privately and shared with only a small group of friends into a more strategic political tool.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/gay_liberation_front.html (1270 words)

	An Attempted Chronology of 1970s Gay Liberation at Iowa State University
		A letter from the Gay Liberation Front appeared in the ISU Daily protesting the play "The Boys in the Band." A letter to the editor controversy between people who felt the GLF was being unfair and the GLF continued for the first several weeks of December.
		The ISU Daily reported on the Gay Liberation Front forming after the first public GLF meeting was held in the YWCA (December 12-13?, 1971).
		The first Gay Dance was given at the Unitarian Church on North Hyland; two weeks previous, police raided a Gay Liberation Front dance at the University of Iowa because donations were being requested to pay for the beer at the dance the dance had "no liquor license" to sell beer.
	www.brumm.com /gaylib/chronology.html (874 words)

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		For example, the GLF in London was formed through its founding members experiences in the United States in groups such as the Yippies, the Gay Activist Alliance and Black Panthers.(Power, 1995: 4-5 & 71) The Gay Liberation Front held their first meeting at LSE in October 1970.
		The GLF had made a strong statement against the Bill when adopting its list of Principles (GLF Principles 1970) and were present at the march, distributing leaflets and discussing gay liberation with the marchers, chanting ‘Homosexuals oppose the Bill’ and ‘Poof to the Bill’.
		Branches of the Front continued throughout the country, in London its communes and workshops remained, and it spawned the groups and organisations that were to structure the next twenty decades of gay activism.
	www.iisg.nl /~womhist/robinson.doc (5343 words)

	Gay Liberation Front of DC
		A month later a follow-up article by a 'radical lesbian' on "Gay Liberation" invited "those brothers and sisters who are ready to 'come out and live'." to attend weekly meetings at 8 pm at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown.
		The GLF House was an organizing center for gay and lesbian activists where plans were laid for zaps at Catholic University, the Georgetown Grill, the Plus One, and other sites around the city.
		GLF carried out much of the planning and launched the call for the city's first Gay Pride celebration celebration (albeit an unofficial and unauthorized event) the first week of May 1972.
	www.rainbowhistory.org /glf.htm (1319 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Gay Left
		Modern gay and lesbian politics dates from the Stonewall riots of 1969, when a police raid on a Greenwich Village bar called the Stonewall Inn provoked a series of riots that mobilized drag queens, street hustlers, lesbians, and gay men, many of whom had been politicized by the movement against the war in Vietnam.
		The organization was named in honor of the National Liberation Front, the Vietnamese resistance movement, and as a gesture toward the unity of the struggles of fls, the poor, the colonized in the Third World, and women.
		In the period immediately after the Stonewall riots, the gay and lesbian movement did not at first focus on the question of identity, or even strictly on civil rights--though the question of fl civil rights was, most certainly, on the political horizon--but on sexual liberation.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/gay_lesbian_left.html (799 words)

	A Chronology of Homosexuality in New Zealand - Part 2 - Queer History New Zealand
		Gay Liberation Front established in Auckland by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Nigel Baumber, Ray Waru and others.
		Auckland Gay Liberation (led by Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Nigel Baumber) disrupt an Auckland meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards addressed by Patricia Bartlett (but the stupid TV reporter had sent the camera crew home).
		Gay Liberation pickets the Labour Party conference for failing to defend Colin Moyle or Gerald O'Brien against charges of homosexuality.
	gaynz.net.nz /history/Part2.html (1344 words)

	Gay Bears: Gay Liberation Movement
		During the Fall Quarter of 1969 two new student organizations were formed on the Berkeley campus: the Students for Gay Power and the Gay Liberation Front, among the first gay liberation groups in the country.
		The plaza in front of Harmon Gymnasium (now known as Spieker Plaza) was the site of the first gay liberation demonstration on the Berkeley campus.
		By Spring Quarter of 1970, the Students for Gay Power had changed their name to the Gay Students Union, and had begun to distance themselves from the Gay Liberation Front, pursuing a more moderate approach to social change.
	sunsite3.berkeley.edu /gaybears/gaylib (660 words)

	Knitting Circle Gay Liberation Front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An early statement of the gay liberationist's aims was Carl Wittman's, "A Gay Manifesto" of 1969, which condemned the mimicry of 'straight'; society, oppression, self-oppression, and role dichotomies, while favouring gay ghettoes, if reorganised as 'liberation zones', together with coalitions with women, fls, Hispanics, and radicals.
		November, 1970 when approximately 80 GLF members gathered for a torchlight demonstration on Highbury Fields in what was then the working class area of Islington.
		Martin Corbett joined the GLF in 1971 and became a key GLF administrator and fundraiser.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/glf.html (446 words)

	Gay Rights Movement: Series II: Activists Alliance
		The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was founded in New York City in December of 1969 in the aftermath of the Stonewall riots.
		Its founders were dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front who sought to form a militant, non-violent organization dedicated exclusively to the attainment of civil and social rights for gays.
		The gay studies research project concerns a survey (1972) which was conducted by GAA relative to gay studies programs in colleges and universities.
	microformguides.gale.com /Data/Introductions/20240FM.htm (2131 words)

	Queer History at KU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The group began as the Lawrence Gay Liberation front in the summer of 1970, shortly after the Stonewall riots in New York ignited the modern Gay Rights movement.
		Outspoken liberal lawyer William Kunstler (famous for defending the Chicago Seven after the 1968 Democratic Convention) was brought on to argue for the Front.
		The Lawrence Gay Liberation Front spent the next decade as an unofficial, unrecognized group.
	www.ku.edu /~qanda/history/history1.html (355 words)

	Iowa State University/Ames Gay History
		Sadly, so many of the original members of the magnificent 7 total gay people in the world who were so adept with those mirrors are no longer able to grace us with their needed presence, and this is dedicated to them.
		The Gay movement grew larger beginning in the 1972-73 school year, and I do know where many of the people who were involved with it beginning that year are (those who are still alive).
		There were of course so many gay people who were never involved directly with organized groups on campus, but who wove themselves through and around the organizations.
	www.brumm.com /gaylib/indexa.html (1804 words)

	ipedia.com: Stonewall riots Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prior to Stonewall, police raids on gay bars and nightclubs were a regular part of gay life in cities across the United States.
		Others suggest that tensions were heightened amongst gays at the time because the beloved star Judy Garland had died five days earlier contributing to the anger at the scene.
		Within the next year, the Gay Liberation Front was formed, as well as similar organizations in countries around the world including Canada, France, Britain, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
	www.ipedia.com /stonewall_riots.html (777 words)

	Brighton Ourstory Project - Lesbian and Gay History Group
		From the merits of male secretaries, to a surprising snub by the CHE to Brighton, it all happened as the nights drew in.
		Trawling the archives of Gay News we find that thirty years ago, in 1973, members of the Sussex Gay Liberation Front held their own ceremony as the military bands paraded away.
		In true gay style only bitterness was heaped on the winners with John Montgomery saying: “I bet that Malvern, with its rather dreary waters, can’t offer anything like the hospitality or understanding of our town.” The CHE sensibly decided to hold their 1979 conference in Brighton.
	www.brightonourstory.co.uk /newsletters/winter03/1973.htm (830 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Queer History in Seattle, Part 2: After Stonewall
		In 1969, Dorian House began to provide counseling services to gay and lesbian students and non-students on Capitol Hill, and was operated by a University of Washington counselor and staffed by UW students.
		As consciousness around Gay and Lesbian civil rights exploded, groups targeted numerous political objectives, focused on various special interests, and began to uncover for the first time the diversity of communities within the community as a whole.
		For some gay men and lesbians, the AIDS epidemic threatened the "pride" that earlier activism and accomplishments had obtained for them, revealing a community that was fragmented and fragile.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=4266 (2119 words)

	AIM25: British Library of Political and Economic Science: Gay Liberation Front
		Administrative/Biographical history: The first meeting of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) took place on 13 Oct 1970 in a basement classroom at the London School of Economics, and was instigated by Aubrey Walters and Bob Mellors, who had been influenced by the development of the GLF in the USA.
		Papers of local Gay Liberation Front groups, 1970-1979, mainly comprising newsletters, leaflets, flyers and tickets for events, stickers, and articles on gay rights and legal reform, as well as some administrative materials such as accounts and reports on accommodation.
		Material created by the Gay Liberation Front Youth Group, 1974, namely a flier for a protest march against the age of consent for homosexual men.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/1/3228.htm (564 words)

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