Document Gallery
Issues of Come Out! Leaflets. Manifestos. Newsletters. If you’re looking for documents from the history of GLF this is where you’ll find them. This is an ongoing project to scan and upload all the issues of Come Out! and so much more. So if you don’t find what you’re looking for here, come back later. And if you have any documents you think should be here, please scan them and send them to us.
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1st Gay Pride March Flyer
What was it like to arrive at the starting off point for the very first march? This leaflet was handed out to people as they lined up to march from the Village up to Central Park.
Urged participants not to respond to hecklers
Explained that the march was in fact legal, and protected by the police and CSLDC marshals
Congratulated marchers for joining a historic event
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GLF Community Ctr Fundraising Letter
Did you know that long before the LGBTQ Center on 13th street, and before the GAA Firehouse, GLF opened a Community Center on West 4th Street? Here’s a copy of the letter sent to supporters to help raise funds for it.
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GLF Flyer Times Sq Demo 8.29.70
GLF members joined with other gay activist groups in a large, organized march on 42nd Street called to protest an ongoing, anti-gay police crackdown in Times Square. Read what happened at this demonstration in the Timeline section under the History tab.
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GLF Red Butterfly Cell NYU Leaflet
Red Butterfly was a cell wtihin GLF that focused on a Marxist analysis of LGBT oppression and linked it to other movements for social change. In this leaflet they describe NYU as a factory for the liberal elite to produce docile white collar workers and connect this to oppressing sexual minorities.
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NYU Demo Leaflet
GLF joined members of NYU’s gay and lesbian student group, GSL, and other LGBT activists to occupy the basement of the Weinstein Hall dorm at NYU for five days to protest their ban on proposed gay student dances.
Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and others founded STAR during this protest
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Space City! Nov 1970 Houston Alternative Paper
GLF members traveled the country to light the fire of Gay Liberation and inspire other activists. In Houston, 5 GLF members were arrested on bogus charges and the story was covered in the local alternative press.
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The Red Butterfly Cell Gay Manifesto
One of 4 mimeographed pamphlets printed by the Marxist cell of GLF, the Red Butterfly. Written by Carl Wittman, it was also published in the Harvard Crimson in February 1970.
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Gay Youth Journal Vol. 1, Issue #1, Fall 1970
A group of GLF members aged 18-22, that included Zazu Nova, and led by Stonewall veteran, Mark Segal, formed “Gay Youth” as a sub-group/cell of GLF. GY members, promoted outreach to gay youth, bravely standing outside NYC high schools to hand out leaflets and newsletters. This issue and others will soon be available for viewing and download.