Several GLF women such as Martha Shelley, Lois Hart and Michela Griffo went on to form the Lavender Menace.

Members included Karla Jay, Martha Shelley, Rita Mae Brown, Lois Hart, Barbara Love, Ellen Shumsky, and Michela Griffo, and were mostly members of the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) and the National Organization for Women ( NOW ).

The GLF are assisted by four surviving members of Black Chamber, a defunct special forces unit whose members are given animal-themed codenames similar to FOXHOUND.

The Stonewall riots are considered by many as the catalyst in the organization of the GLF and other gay and lesbian movements.

The papers of the GLF are among the Hall-Carpenter Archives at the London School of Economics.

GLF is not-for-profit ; its Members have a wide range of experience yet are no longer candidates for office ; they have no interest of their own, beyond being of help to current leaders facing challenges they themselves once faced.

GLF ’ s “ panels of experts ” are drawn both from its International Council, many of whose Members make their time and experience freely available to GLF, and from widely respected individuals known directly to GLF Members.

GLF Members contribute to the work of GLF as private individuals and are motivated by a desire to help current leaders face challenges that they themselves once faced.

Its core principles are discretion, trust, integrity, neutrality and independence, and it will not publicize the countries in which it works unless a leader with whom it is working wishes to make GLF ’ s involvement public.

GLF is registered in the Canton of Berne, Switzerland but its day-to-day operations are run by a small Secretariat based in London.

GLF Members FW de Klerk and Joe Clark are the Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively.

GLF ( UK ) and GLF ( USA ) are associate Foundations.

Because discretion is a key aspect of the Global Leadership Foundation ’ s concept and success, and although the Foundation is open about its mission, GLF does not publicly disclose the countries in which they are working unless the Head of Government of said country chooses to do so.

The rise of militancy became apparent to Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings — who had worked in homophile organizations for years and were both very public about their roles — when they attended a GLF meeting to see the new group.

A young GLF member demanded to know who they were and what their credentials were.

In late December 1969, several people who had visited GLF meetings and left out of frustration formed the Gay Activists Alliance ( GAA ).

Many who arrived at GLF or GAA meetings were taken aback by the number of gay people in one place.

The advice given is private – GLF believes that credit for change should go to the leaders who take the tough decisions.

" The GLF borrowed tactics from and aligned themselves with black and antiwar demonstrators with the ideal that they " could work to restructure American society ".

For initial funding, Gunnison served as treasurer and sought donations from the national homophile organizations and sponsors, while Sargeant solicited donations via the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop customer mailing list and Nixon worked to gain financial support from GLF in his position as treasurer for that organization.

Rainbow must find and stop the GLF from using the virus.

To accomplish this, Rainbow goes from country to country, tracking down each country's GLF cell, and finally capturing or killing that cell's leader, ultimately leading to a showdown with the GLF's supreme leader, Bastian Vanderwaal.

The GLF virtually disappeared from the New York City political scene after the first Stonewall commemoration parade in 1970.

Mark Segal, a member of GLF from 1969 – 71, continues to push gay rights in various venues.

The Global Leadership Foundation ( GLF ) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation which seeks to improve the quality of political leadership and governance by enabling today ’ s national leaders to benefit from the experience of former leaders.

GLF ’ s involvement can be general, on broad issues of governance, or it can be focussed on specific questions where a leader might welcome private advice – ranging, for example, from the working relationship between the Executive and Parliament, to advancing specific goals in infrastructure development, education, tourism or other priorities.

GLF will consider requests from any government that is committed to, or aspires to, the principles of democratic institutions, human rights, open markets and the rule of law.

GLF will consider requests from any government that is committed to or aspires to the principles of democratic institutions, human rights, open markets and the rule of law.

GLF exercises careful judgement case-by-case to ensure that it is not in receipt of funds from any source likely to be considered damaging to its reputation for probity or its need to preserve the confidentiality and objectivity of its operations.

A limit is placed on donations from any one donor to preserve GLF ’ s independence

During his time in GLF Tatchell was prominent in organising sit-ins at pubs that refused to serve " poofs " and protests against police harassment and the medical classification of homosexuality as an illness.

The Gaia Liberation Front advocates ( but is not known to have active plans for ) total human genocide, see: GLF, A Modest Proposal.

GLF branches had been set up in some provincial British towns ( e. g. Bristol, Leeds, Bradford, Leicester ) and some survived for a few years longer.

To do this the GLF was intent on transforming the idea of the biological family and clan and making it more akin to a loose affiliation of members without biological subtexts.

Immediately after Stonewall, such groups as the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) and the Gay Activists ' Alliance ( GAA ) were formed.

Chapters of the GLF were established across the U. S. and in other parts of the Western world.

Organized by an early GLF leader Brenda Howard, the Stonewall riots were commemorated by annual marches that became known as Gay pride parades.

", the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) was soon formed, the first gay organization to use " gay " in its name.

Within six months of the Stonewall riots, activists started a city-wide newspaper called Gay ; they considered it necessary because the most liberal publication in the city — The Village Voice — refused to print the word " gay " in GLF advertisements seeking new members and volunteers.

GLF members organized several same-sex dances, but GLF meetings were chaotic.

Although 20 psychiatrists in attendance left, the GLF spent the hour following the zap with those remaining, trying to convince them that homosexuals were not mentally ill.

Other mainstays of the organizing committee were Judy Miller, Jack Waluska, Steve Gerrie and Brenda Howard of GLF.

One of the loudest opponents of the GLF was Defense Minister Peng Dehuai.

The newspaper changed their policy after the GLF petitioned the Voice to do so.

In 1973 under the aegis of the GLF he attended the 10th World Youth Festival in East Berlin.

In May 2010 Sir Ketumile Masire led an African Union Election Observer Mission to the May 2010 Ethiopia Legislative Elections, and in October 2010 he co-led ( with fellow GLF Member Joe Clark ) a National Democratic Institute pre-election assessment mission in Nigeria, which identified a number of hurdles that could undermine a successful process surrounding the 2011 state and national polls.

The group, known as the Gindra Liberation Front ( or GLF ), plans on using the prototype as a means of achieving victory in an ongoing civil war.

In the end, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the GLF and US Government.

Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) was the name of a number of Gay Liberation groups, the first of which was formed in New York City in 1969, immediately after the Stonewall riots, in which police clashed with gay demonstrators.

The Activist GLF was interested in the sexual liberation for all people, as they believed that heterosexuality was a remnant of cultural inhibition and felt that change would not come about unless the current social institutions were dismantled and rebuilt without defined sexual roles.