Resources

Eyewitness Accounts
Videos
Manifestos
Stonewall
Oral History
Photography
Document Gallery

Students. Researchers. Historians.
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There’s a lot of stuff out there about Stonewall and the history of GLF. How can you sort through it all? What’s accurate? Who has an agenda? The resources and links here have been chosen by our membership because we feel they most accurately represent our history. If you have a resource you’d like to have listed on this page, contact us.

Eyewitness Accounts

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Voices Of the Members

On Our Own: Gay Men in Consciousness-Raising Groups

In August 1970, one men’s CR group authored a manual for the process in its widely-circulated pamphlet.

Lavender Menace at the National Organization of Women, May 1970

Confronting homophobia at the National Organization of Women, by Martha Shelley.

Protesting the Police Raid on the Snakepit

Allen Young’s account of demonstrations following the police raid of the Snakepit bar and the death of Diego Viñales.

From a Hot Night in August in the West Village to a Rally in D.C.

Perry Brass writes about several street demonstrations by the Gay Liberation Front in NYC and tells the story of GLF at the May Day demonstration in Washington D.C. in 1971.

Picketing the Time-Life Building

First-person account of this November 1969 demonstration, by Ellen Broidy

How GLF Burst into the World

Martha Shelley’s account of the origin and naming of GLF

GLF vs. the Mafia

Martha Shelley’s account of an action at Gianni’s, a lesbian bar in the Village

Occupation of NYU’s Weinstein Hall

A first-person account of 5-day protest, by Ellen Broidy.

The Genesis of the First Pride March

Proposing the march at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) in 1969, by Ellen Broidy.

Police raid on the Stonewall Bar

June 28, 1969, and the events on the streets afterward, by Mark Segal.

Videos

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Voices Of the Members

Out of the Closets: 1969 | Stories from the Founders of the Gay Liberation Front

Seven of the original members of the Gay Liberation Front recount their transformative experiences with one of the first major LGBTQ activist organizations, active from 1969 to 1972.

Pride Ocean Cruise Panel Discussion

GLF members John Knoebel, Charlotte Bunch, Allen Young and Michela Griffo shared their history with GLF on this 50th anniversary of Pride cruise.

Mark Segal on how GLF changed the movement for LGBTQ rights

Mark Segal happened to be at the Stonewall Inn the night of the famous raid. From that moment, the Gay Liberation Front was born.

Karla Jay on the founding of the Gay Liberation Front

Karla Jay was a founding member of GLF.

Martha Shelley Reading plus a GLF Panel Discussion

Martha Shelley reads from her book “We Set The Night On Fire” plus a panel discussion with GLF members at BGSQD in NYC, October 2023.

Manifestos

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STAR Manifesto

Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries founded by Sylvia Rivera, Nova, and Marsha P. Johnson

Third World Gay Revolution: 16 Point Platform and Program

Third World Gay Revolution: 16 Point Platform and Program (1970)

Hey Man

Hey Man manifesto by Steven F. Dansky

The Woman-Identified Woman

The Woman-Identified Woman manifesto by the Radicalesbians (1970)

Stonewall

Putting an end to the myths of Stonewall:

For years, people have debated what actually happened that night in June 1969 when Stonewall was raided and a new, more militant struggle for equality was born. Due to the debates, and insistence of some to claim they knew all aspects of what had actually happened, an incredible void opened up where people could invent, imagine, or distort Stonewall and our history to their own objectives. But the myths of Stonewall are endless, but they’re easily dispelled when you look at the material proof and plain logic. Here, Mark Segal, Stonewall participant and award-winning journalist, dispels the myths.

The Stonewall You Know is a Myth. And That’s O.K.

“Who threw the first brick at Stonewall?” has become a rallying cry, a cliche and queer inside joke on the internet — never mind the fact that it’s not clear whether bricks were ever thrown during the uprising at all.

Oral History

Outspoken: Oral History from LGBT Pioneers

Created by GLF member Steven F. Dansky, the Outspoken site includes video and audio recordings of many of GLF’s members, as well as LGBTQ pioneers, telling their stories in their own words.

GLF members you can find on Outspoken include:
Ron Auerbacher • Warren Blumenfeld • Perry Brass • Ellen Broidy • Roberto Camp • Dajenya • Steven F. Dansky • Nikos Diaman • Tim Elliott • Michela Griffo • Jerry Hoose • Mark Horn • Karla Jay • Jeffrey Karaban • John Knoebel • Richard Koob • Giles Kotcher • Nestor Latronico • Michael Lavery • Barbara Love • Mark Segal • Jason Serinus • Martha Shelley • Ellen Shumsky • Dennis Siple • Dan Smith • Steve Turtell • Allan Warshawsky • Allen Young

Photography

GLF member Donna Gottschalk at the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, 1970

The Diana Davies Collection of Photographs

Diana Davies is an American photographer, playwright, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and musician who was one of the leading photojournalists documenting the feminist and LGBTQ movements in the 1960s—70s. A digital collection of her work is housed at the New York Public Library and can be viewed here. From the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march in 1970 to demonstrations and actions by GLF and Lavender Menace, her work is an important resource.

Document Gallery

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Here you’ll find scanned copies of leaflets, articles, posters and other materials produced by GLF and its cells and subcommittees.

Click any image to open a PDF.