Published in: May-June 2019 issue.
The GLF’s first major demonstration was a picket line against The Village Voice, which had published an antigay article about Stonewall and which refused ads for the GLF dance on the grounds that “gay” was a dirty word. Our demonstration was a resounding success. The Voice, humiliated by this challenge to its vaunted liberalism, agreed to all of our demands.
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My main efforts in these first few months were spent on Come Out!, the first newspaper of Gay Liberation. I was editor under Roslyn Bramms, who had formerly been managing editor of Screw magazine. The first issue was published on November 14, 1969.
John Lauritsen is co-author of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935). A section on Gay Liberation can be found on his website at paganpressbooks.com.