Talk:Gay Liberation Front

I was a member of the Gay Liberation Front from the age of 17 in 1969 through the age of 20 in 1972. A Gandhian nonviolent resistant pacifist since time knows not to the contrary, I have been an antiwar activist, civil rights worker, militant feminist, disability rights advocate, farmworker organizer, indigenous agitator and Queer rights rebel. I am also a lifelong socialist who has always opposed capitalism in the United States as well as elsewhere and addressed economic inequities in both industrialized nations and the Third World. While in GLF and other human rights groups from my teens to today, I have organized protests, rallies and demonstrations as well as participated in sit-ins and given speeches. I opposed "outing" then as I do now. The only people ever to call me a "faggot" to my face were my fellow Maoist antiwar and civil rights comrades who defined Gay rights as a "bourgeois" cause. It is for this very reason that "many New Left historians have downplayed [Stonewall's] importance or excluded it entirely."
 * Interesting commentary: I believe Gay rights extends beyond class and race myself. One question... why do you oppose "outing"? I would oppose it for the common man or woman, but I DO think it's appropriate when applied to someone in a position of power acting in a hypocritical and harmful manner. -- DragonMage 13:03, July 3, 2010 (UTC)