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In some ways we are already outside the family and we have already, in part at least, rejected the ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ role society has designed for us. In December the GLF Demands & Principles were agreed on, and in October of ’71 the publication of the GLF Manifesto. Also formed were A Women’s Group, a Street Theatre Group, a Communes Group, The Youth Group for the under 21s fighting for a reduction in the age of consent.Īn Action Group organising public GLF dances held in local town halls, and later the Gay Days in the parks, an Office Collective, and the Steering Group, later the Co-ordinating Committee to run the Wednesday night General Meetings. An Anti-Psychiatry Group focused on analysing and attacking the Psychiatric Establishments wholesale acceptance of Judeo Christian prejudice, Biblical authority, and the use of electric shock/emetic drug programmes on gays and lesbians who did not fit in, or who were found guilty of breaking the law. On 13th November, GLF made the first ever, public demonstration in the UK by lesbians and gay men at Highbury Fields, Islington, to protest the use of “pretty policemen” agent provocateurs used by the police to entrap gay men into attempting acts of gross indecency, a standard police practice and an easy way for them to increase the figures for crime detection and prosecution.Ī Media Group was established which produced the GLF Newspaper ‘Come Together’, which ran to sixteen editions. The stuff around the Convention was seminal and it’s important to remember that most of the ideology of GLF came from the West Coast Groups, not from New York”. “Not only did liberationists go to Philadelphia to show solidarity with the black movement, but it was there that Huey Newton as leader of the Panthers, first gave clear support of the Gay Cause, saying that homosexuals were maybe the most oppressed people of American society, and could well be the most revolutionary.” 1Īubrey also visited San Francisco where, “I met Konstantin Berlandt who had dragged up (in a red sequin dress and long blonde wig) to disrupt the American Psychiatrists Convention, and I stayed in his commune.
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Aubrey and Bob had independently been hanging out in New York GLF that summer and met for the first time at the “Revolutionary Peoples Constitutional Convention” in Philadelphia, called by the Black Panther Party. On the 4th July Lesbians and Gay Men from the Matachine Society New York, in response to the riots, staged a walk-out and moved to the Alternative University in Greenwich Village where they founded what became the Gay Liberation Front.Īubrey Walter and Bob Mellor founded the Gay Liberation Front in London, on 13th October, 1970 at the L.S.E. The fighting spread out of the doors and onto the streets and as police reinforcements were called in became a riot that spread throughout the West Village, and continued for three nights in a row. New York’s finest encountered black and white drag queens, gay men and lesbians, sick of police brutality, and who on being physically provoked fought back. On the 27th June, 1969 as part of its policy of raiding and closing Gay Bars, the New York Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn to rough up the customers and make a few arrests.