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He then co-founded a militant group, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom, with Gale Whittington -- a young man who had been fired from States Steamship Company for being openly gay, after his photo appeared in the Berkley Barb, next to the headline " HOMOS, DON ' T HIDE IT!

", the revolutionary article by Leo Laurence.

The same month Carl Wittman, a member of CHF, began writing Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto, which would later be described as " the bible of Gay Liberation ".

It was first published in the San Francisco Free Press and distributed nation-wide, all the way to New York City, as was the Berkeley Barb with Leo's stories on CHF's Gay Guerilla militant initiatives.