Actions. Protests. Demos.
Between 1969 and 1972, GLF, its cells and subcommittees, and its membership planned and participated in a number of actions that changed the conversation about LGBTQ+ rights. Click on the links below to read first person accounts of these actions, along with other historic source material.
Gay Liberation Front House of Detention demonstration.
Diana Davies collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1969).
Links
Lavender Menace at the National Organization of Women, May 1970
Martha Shelley, tells how on May 1, 1970, at NOW’s Second Congress to Unite Women forty GLF members scattered anonymously among several hundred women took their seats to confront the organization’s homophobia. Read her first-person account.
To come...
Were you there? We’re actively soliciting accounts from GLF members of the actions, demos and protests you were part of. Email the board for more information….