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.

Susan Silverman was a lesbian feminist, social worker, and pioneering gay liberation activist whose work spanned more than five decades. She was an early member of GLF and was active in New York Radical Women, Gay Youth, the Lavender Menace, and Radicalesbians.

Artist who helped shaped the visual voice of early gay liberation.

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

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

Karla Jay was a founding member of GLF.

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.

Civil rights organizer who helped connect gay liberation to the wider struggle for human freedom

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

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

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

Hey Man manifesto by Steven F. Dansky

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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