Christopher Street Liberation Day, the predecessor to the Gay Pride March, occurred in New York City on Sunday, June 28, 1970 to mark the 1 year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. This leaflet was handed out to people as they lined up to march from the Village up to Central Park.

GLF members joined with other gay activist groups in a large, organized march from 42nd Street down to the West Village, called to protest an ongoing, anti-gay police crackdown in Times Square. Read what happened at this demonstration in the Timeline and in Gay Flames, Issue #1.

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 in New York City? Here’s a copy of the letter sent to supporters to help raise funds for it.

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.

GLF joined members of NYU’s gay and lesbian student group, Gay Student Liberation, and other LGBTQ activists to occupy the basement of the Weinstein Hall dorm at NYU for five days to protest NYU’s ban on proposed gay student dances. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and others founded STAR, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, during this protest.

Red Butterfly was a cell within GLF that focused on a Marxist analysis of LGBTQ oppression and linked it to other movements for social change. Here they respond to NYU’s decision to cancel gay dances planned for Weinstein Hall.

The Gay Liberation Front of New York inspired the formation of chapters across North America.

A flyer by GLF describing the origins of the word, “faggot,” and its connection to the punitive practice of burning homosexuals alive.

SEPT. 1, 1970: “We’re Fighting Back!” gives an eyewitness account of an NYC demonstration with landmark streets and locations, interactions with police, chants shouted, and more. NYU Weinstein hall demonstrations. Pamphlet’s mission.

SEPT 1970: “Gay is Good.” This issue of the Gay Flames pamphlet includes an article titled “Gay is Good” by GLF member Martha Shelley, which is reprinted from Rat. It is numbered #1, but is considered an alternate to issue #1.

SEPT. 1970: “An Open Letter to Jerry Rubin Which May Fix His Bad Mouth.” This issue of the Gay Flames pamphlet includes a piece by Step May of Chicago Gay Liberation, addressing Jerry Rubin for his anti-gay, hetero-chauvinist book, “DO IT!”

SEPT. 1970: “Battles Go On.” This issue covers demonstrations to hold a gay dance at NYU’s Weinstein Hall. Also: a GLF Bail Fund, a letter from an incarcerated gay man, and penal laws on sodomy. Includes a calendar of gay NYC gatherings.

FALL 1970: “Gay Consciousness.” This alternate #4 issue includes, “Born to Love: A Freaking Fag Revolutionary Speaks Out,” by Stevens McClave of San Francisco, and, “My Gay Soul,” by Gary Alinder of San Francisco.

FALL 1970: “Gay Liberation Meets the Shrinks” covers activist actions at the National Convention of the American Psychiatric Association, which were influential in the APA’s 1973 decision to stop classifying homosexuality as a mental disorder. Includes San Francisco coverage by Gary Alinder, Chicago coverage by Step May, and a leaflet.

FALL 1970: “Third World Gay Revolution” addresses the need to overcome prejudices and build solidarity between movements of advocacy. Includes: A Letter from Huey P. Newton, Black Panther Party; and “The Oppressed Shall Not Become the Oppressor,” in English and Spanish.

FALL 1970: This issue includes two articles on masculinity: “Hey Man” by Steven Dansky on male supremacy in the larger culture and within the Gay Liberation movement; and “Games Male Chauvinists Play” by Perry Brass on the topic of cruising.

FALL 1970: This issue includes Carl Wittman’s “A Gay Manifesto,” with sections on: Orientation, Women, Roles, Oppression, Sex, Our Ghetto, Coalition. Plus a foldout photo poster for the GLF.

FALL 1970: “My Soul Vanished from Sight - A California Saga of Gay Liberation,” a 16-page, first-person piece by gay liberation activist and journalist Konstantin Berlandt, describing: childhood, adolescence, UC Berkeley, the closet and the gay bar, sexuality, love, heartbreak, protests, confrontations, and monumental thoughts.

FALL 1970: “Revolutionary Love” issue includes two articles offering critical lenses on societal structures, and suggesting collective alternatives: “An Introduction to Gay Liberation,” by Guy Nassberg; and “On Sex Roles,” by A.N. Diaman.

FALL 1970: This issue includes three poems. “The Flaming Faggots,” by a NYC gay male collective who were the first open homosexuals to participate in the Venceremos Brigade in Cuba in 1970. “Phoenix of New Youth,” by Bob Bland. “Bring the Beautiful Boys Home,” by Konstantin Berlandt.