Gay Liberation Front - Revision history

Wessexman at 13:16, 6 September 2024

2024-09-06T13:16:08Z

Wessexman: new image

2024-09-06T13:15:04Z

new image

Wessexman at 17:38, 24 February 2023

2023-02-24T17:38:10Z

Wessexman: /* External links */ added Radio broadcast 2020

2022-12-16T20:51:52Z

‎External links: added Radio broadcast 2020

Wessexman: Come Together

2021-12-02T20:56:14Z

Come Together

Wessexman: /* GLF outside London */ added Harrow GLF

2019-10-24T11:21:24Z

‎GLF outside London: added Harrow GLF

Wessexman: /* Further reading */ added Stuart Feather's book

2019-10-23T21:37:46Z

‎Further reading: added Stuart Feather's book

Ross Burgess at 22:32, 28 March 2016

2016-03-28T22:32:49Z

Ross Burgess: /* GLF outside London */

2014-03-13T18:27:06Z

‎GLF outside London

Ross Burgess: /* GLF outside London */

2013-03-26T16:31:28Z

‎GLF outside London

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 By 1974 internal disagreements and lead to the movement splintering. Organisations that span off from the movement included the [[London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard]], [[Gay News]] and [[Icebreakers]]. The '''GLF Information Service''' continued for a few further years providing gay related resources. GLF branches had been set up in some other British cities (eg [[Bristol]], [[Leeds]], [[Bradford]]) and some survived for a few years longer.
-The papers of the GLF are among the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]]. GLF produced a newsletter/newspaper called [[Come Together]]. Issue one was two sides of A4 and appeared in 1970. The final issue was number 16 <ref> Hall Carpenter Archives have all issues except number 3 in HCA/Journals2536. Bishopsgate Institute have digitalised issues 2-16 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/come-together-gay-liberation-front (accessed 2 Dec 2021) </ref>. Some in the GLF promoted the idea of [[paedophilia]]  being acceptable and some issues of Come Together reflect their views. [[File:Cometogetherbubbles.JPG|thumb|left| image in Come Together issue 15 (LSE Archives)]]
+The papers of the GLF are among the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]]. GLF produced a newsletter/newspaper called [[Come Together]]. Issue one was two sides of A4 and appeared in 1970. The final issue was number 16 <ref> Hall Carpenter Archives have all issues except number 3 in HCA/Journals2536. Bishopsgate Institute have digitalised issues 2-16 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/come-together-gay-liberation-front (accessed 2 Dec 2021) </ref>. Some in the GLF promoted the idea of [[pedophilia]] being acceptable and some issues of Come Together reflect their views. [[File:Cometogetherbubbles.JPG|thumb|left| image in Come Together issue 15 (LSE Archives)]]
 Several members of the GLF including [[Peter Tatchell]] continued their campaigning beyond the 1970s under the banner of OutRage! which still exists today, using similar tactics such as 'zaps' and performance protest to attract a significant level of media interest and controversy. It was at this point the emergence of a divide within the gay activist movement occurred mainly due to a difference in ideologies, after which a number of groups including [[Organisation for Lesbian and Gay Action]] (OLGA), [[Stonewall Equality Limited]] (which focused on lobby tactics), the [[Lesbian Avengers]] and [[OutRage!]] co-existed.

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 By 1974 internal disagreements and lead to the movement splintering. Organisations that span off from the movement included the [[London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard]], [[Gay News]] and [[Icebreakers]]. The '''GLF Information Service''' continued for a few further years providing gay related resources. GLF branches had been set up in some other British cities (eg [[Bristol]], [[Leeds]], [[Bradford]]) and some survived for a few years longer.
-The papers of the GLF are among the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]]. GLF produced a newsletter/newspaper called [[Come Together]]. Issue one was two sides of A4 and appeared in 1970. The final issue was number 16 <ref> Hall Carpenter Archives have all issues except number 3 in HCA/Journals2536. Bishopsgate Institute have digitalised issues 2-16 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/come-together-gay-liberation-front (accessed 2 Dec 2021) </ref>.
+The papers of the GLF are among the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]]. GLF produced a newsletter/newspaper called [[Come Together]]. Issue one was two sides of A4 and appeared in 1970. The final issue was number 16 <ref> Hall Carpenter Archives have all issues except number 3 in HCA/Journals2536. Bishopsgate Institute have digitalised issues 2-16 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/come-together-gay-liberation-front (accessed 2 Dec 2021) </ref>. Some in the GLF promoted the idea of [[paedophilia]]  being acceptable and some issues of Come Together reflect their views. [[File:Cometogetherbubbles.JPG|thumb|left| image in Come Together issue 15 (LSE Archives)]]
 Several members of the GLF including [[Peter Tatchell]] continued their campaigning beyond the 1970s under the banner of OutRage! which still exists today, using similar tactics such as 'zaps' and performance protest to attract a significant level of media interest and controversy. It was at this point the emergence of a divide within the gay activist movement occurred mainly due to a difference in ideologies, after which a number of groups including [[Organisation for Lesbian and Gay Action]] (OLGA), [[Stonewall Equality Limited]] (which focused on lobby tactics), the [[Lesbian Avengers]] and [[OutRage!]] co-existed.

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 [[File:Gay_liberation_1970_poster.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Gay Liberation Front poster from 1970]]
-In the United Kingdom the '''Gay Liberation Front''' (GLF) had its first meeting in the basement of the London School of Economics on 13 October 1970. [[Bob Mellors]] and [[Aubrey Walter]] had seen the effect of the GLF in the United States and created a parallel movement based on revolutionary politics and alternative lifestyle.
+In the United Kingdom the '''Gay Liberation Front''' (GLF) had its first meeting in the basement of the [[London School of Economics]] on 13 October 1970. [[Bob Mellors]] and [[Aubrey Walter]] had seen the effect of the GLF in the United States and created a parallel movement based on revolutionary politics and alternative lifestyle.
 By 1971 the UK GLF was recognized as a political movement in the national press, holding weekly meetings of 200 to 300 people. The GLF Manifesto was published, and a series of high-profile direct actions, were carried out, such as the disruption of the launch of the Church-based morality campaign, [[Festival of Light]].

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	''A brief history of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73''<br>http://libcom.org/library/brief-history-gay-liberation-front-1970-73		''A brief history of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73''<br>http://libcom.org/library/brief-history-gay-liberation-front-1970-73
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		+	Dr [[Clifford Williams]] talking about the GLF on the 50th Anniversary in 2020''<br>https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08v45nc

	== References ==		== References ==

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 By 1974 internal disagreements and lead to the movement splintering. Organisations that span off from the movement included the [[London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard]], [[Gay News]] and [[Icebreakers]]. The '''GLF Information Service''' continued for a few further years providing gay related resources. GLF branches had been set up in some other British cities (eg [[Bristol]], [[Leeds]], [[Bradford]]) and some survived for a few years longer.
-The papers of the GLF are among the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]].
+The papers of the GLF are among the [[Hall-Carpenter Archives]]. GLF produced a newsletter/newspaper called [[Come Together]]. Issue one was two sides of A4 and appeared in 1970. The final issue was number 16 <ref> Hall Carpenter Archives have all issues except number 3 in HCA/Journals2536. Bishopsgate Institute have digitalised issues 2-16 https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/come-together-gay-liberation-front (accessed 2 Dec 2021) </ref>.
 Several members of the GLF including [[Peter Tatchell]] continued their campaigning beyond the 1970s under the banner of OutRage! which still exists today, using similar tactics such as 'zaps' and performance protest to attract a significant level of media interest and controversy. It was at this point the emergence of a divide within the gay activist movement occurred mainly due to a difference in ideologies, after which a number of groups including [[Organisation for Lesbian and Gay Action]] (OLGA), [[Stonewall Equality Limited]] (which focused on lobby tactics), the [[Lesbian Avengers]] and [[OutRage!]] co-existed.
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 ''A brief history of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73''<br>http://libcom.org/library/brief-history-gay-liberation-front-1970-73
 [[Category:Organisations]]
 [[Category:Campaigning groups]]

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 *[[Edinburgh]] GLF
 *[[Durham]] GLF
 *[[Higham Ferrers]] GLF
 *[[Hull]] GLF

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 ==Further reading==
 <cite>[[No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles]]</cite>, an Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970–73, by [[Lisa Power]]. Cassell, 1995, ISBN 0-304-33205-4.
 == External links ==

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 The disruption of the opening of the 1971 Festival of Light was the best organised GLF action. The Festival of Light was organised by [[Mary Whitehouse]] at Methodist Central Hall, and included Cliff Richard and Malcolm Muggeridge. Groups of GLF members in drag invaded and spontaneously kissed each other; others released mice, sounded horns and unveiled banners, and a contingent dressed as workmen obtained access to the basement and shut off the lights.
-Easter 1972 saw the '''Gay Lib annual conference''' held in the Guild of Undergraduates Union (students union) building at the University of Birmingham.
+Easter 1972 saw the '''Gay Lib annual conference''' held in the Guild of Undergraduates Union (students union) building at the [[University of Birmingham]].
 By 1974 internal disagreements and lead to the movement splintering. Organisations that span off from the movement included the [[London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard]], [[Gay News]] and [[Icebreakers]]. The '''GLF Information Service''' continued for a few further years providing gay related resources. GLF branches had been set up in some other British cities (eg [[Bristol]], [[Leeds]], [[Bradford]]) and some survived for a few years longer.

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 *[[Hull]] GLF
 *[[Lancaster]] GLF
-*[[Keele Gay Lib Society]]
+*[[Keele]] Gay Lib Society
 *[[Leeds]] GLF
 *[[Leicester]] GLF

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 *[[Belfast]] GLF
 *[[Bradford]] GLF
-*[[Canterbury Gay Lib Society]]
+*[[Canterbury]] Gay Lib Society
 *[[Chelmsford]] GLF
 *[[Cheltenham]] GLF