GLFF RESOURCE LIBRARY
Gay Flames #9
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.
Gay Flames #10
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.
Gay Flames #11
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.
Gay Flames #12
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.
Gay Flames #13
FALL 1970: “Working Paper for the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention by Chicago Gay Liberation” includes a clearly outlined statement on “Grievances Common to All Homosexuals,” including: Economic, Political, Social Institutions, Law and the State, Housing, Education, Medical Care, Culture, Class Status, Sexual Capitalism, Social Attitudes, Psychological Attitudes.
Gay Flames: Packet Cover & Poster
Gay Flames was a weekly pamphlet series written by a group of gay men in GLF. A packet compiling 15 articles was available for sale. Here is the packet cover and the poster included with that packet. This download does not include the 15 articles themselves.
Remembering GLF Member Marty Robinson
Marty Robinson was one of the most influential activists to emerge from the period immediately following the Stonewall uprising. Present on Christopher Street during the uprising, he helped transform a spontaneous rebellion into an organized movement and later became a leading figure in both the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA).
Remembering GLF Member Zazu Nova
Zazu Nova was, in the language of the time, a “street queen.” A gender-nonconforming activist. Nova was participant in the Stonewall uprising whose name appears repeatedly in recollections of the rebellion and the liberation movement that followed. Although relatively little is known about her life, multiple witnesses remembered Nova as part of the community of young gender-nonconforming people who gathered around Christopher Street in the years leading up to Stonewall.
Remembering GLF Member Jerry Hoose
Jerry Hoose (1945–2015) was a Stonewall veteran, Gay Liberation Front activist, and longtime community organizer whose activism spanned nearly five decades. Present at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, he joined the newly formed Gay Liberation Front and became an important figure in the organization's social and fundraising efforts.
Come Out! Vol. 1, #1
NOV 14, 1969: The first issue of the GLF newspaper includes: "To the Gay Liberation Front” by Ron Ballard and Bob Fontanella, "Stepin Fetchit Woman" by Martha Shelley, "BITCH: Summer’s Not Forever" by "butch drag" lesbian Marty Stephen, Village Voice Protest, and more.
Come Out! Vol. 1, #2
JAN 10, 1970: This issue announced "Christopher Street Liberation Day, Saturday, June 29, 1970." Includes: "More Radical Than Thou" by Martha Shelley, “Cuba: The Sexual Revolution, a Beginning” photo essay by Ellen Bedoz, "Word Thoughts" by Jim Fouratt, "GLF News" by Lois Hart, and more.
Come Out! Vol. 1, #3
APR-MAY 1970: This issue reported the violent death of Diego Viñales, in “Gays Protest Police Raid on Bar After Young Man is Impaled on Fence.” Other pieces include: “Right On!!" by Bob Kohler, and “The Young Lords Go to Church” by Martha Shelley, "Homosexuals In The Movement" by Pat Maxwell, and more.
Come Out! Vol. 1, #4
JUNE-JULY 1970: This issue includes two manifestos: “Hey Man” by Steve Dansky, for men opposing sexism of all kinds, and “The Woman-Identified Woman” by Radicalesbians. Also: “The Transvestite in America” by Laura McAlister, a piece by Ellen Broidy on the Kent State massacre, and more.
Come Out! Vol. 1, #5
SEPT-OCT 1970: This issue covers the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march with personal accounts and photos. It includes a statement from the newly formed Third World Gay Revolution in English and Spanish, updates on Black Panther Party organizing, and more
Come Out! Vol. 1, #7
DEC 1970–JAN 1971: This issue includes: a list of Gay & Women’s periodicals and organizations; announcements from groups Gay Youth, Red Butterfly, GLF Women, Radicalesbians; an emerging Community Center in the West Village, and more.
Come Out! Vol. 2, #7b
SPRING–SUMMER 1971: This issue includes an event calendar for “Gay Pride Week” June 18–27, 1971. It has a front and back cover – one gay, one lesbian. It includes many coming out stories, boycott and support of local businesses, a crossword puzzle, and more.
Come Out! Vol. 2, #8
WINTER 1972: This issue is the last in the Come Out! series. It includes many thoughts on the gay movement, book reviews, and coverage of new community spaces such as Liberation House Collective and an emerging Gay Switchboard, and more.
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.
Remembering GLF Member Susan Silverman
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.
Remembering GLF Member Suzanne BeVier
Artist who helped shaped the visual voice of early gay liberation.