Tradition
Gay Liberation Front
Overview
The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was the name of several gay liberation groups around the world, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots. Similar organizations also formed soon after in the UK, Australia and Canada. The original GLF provided a voice for the newly-out and newly radicalized gay community, and a meeting place for a number of activists who would go on to form other groups, such as the Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Youth New York, and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in the US. In the UK and Canada, activists also developed a platform for gay liberation and demonstrated for gay rights. Activists from both the US and UK groups would later go on to found or be active in groups including ACT UP, the Lesbian Avengers, Queer Nation, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Stonewall.
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The study of the sex life of the child and its transformations, until full maturity, has also yielded to us the key for the understanding of so-called sexual perversions. These, while generally spoken of with profound disgust, up to then had remained obscure as to their origin. Although this phase of sex life is extraordinarily interesting, it does not serve our present purpose to dwell upon it in detail.
Sigmund Freud, The problem of lay-analyses
States what Gay Liberation Front is.
Then began the period of prodigious capitalistic development, on the foundation of the national state. For the Labor Movement this was the period of the gradual gathering of strength, of the development of organization, and of political possibilism. In England the stormy period of Chartism, that revolutionary awakening of the English proletariat, had completely exhausted itself ten years before the birth of the…
Leon Trotsky, The Bolsheviki and World Peace
Close in meaning to Gay Liberation Front; the term itself is not named.
While the first step of organization consisted in excluding parents and children from mutual sexual intercourse, the second was the erection of a barrier between brother and sister. This progress was much more important on account of the greater equality in the ages of the parties concerned, but also far more difficult.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Gay Liberation Front; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Greenwich Village
- Gay liberation
- Columbia University Press
- Nuclear family
- St. Martin's Press
- Māori people
- Racism
- University of Auckland
- Stonewall riots
- United Kingdom
- Vancouver
- Wellington
- Civil disobedience
- Gender role
- American Library Association
- Christchurch
- New York City
- London School of Economics
- Quebec
- New York (state)
- Detroit
- The New York Times Magazine
Place in the tradition
Part of Libertarianism.