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

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.

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

Members of the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) attended the meeting and were seated as guests of Rodwell's group, Homophile Youth Movement in Neighborhoods ( HYMN ).

He had accepted being gay in 1969 and four days after arriving he spotted a sticker on a lamp-post in Oxford Street advertising a meeting of the London Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ).

In the aftermath of the riots, many gay rights organisations formed such as the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ).

The Gay Activists Alliance ( GAA ) was founded in New York City on December 21, 1969, after the Stonewall riots, by dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ).

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.

In 1970, she was a founder member of the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) in London.

These actions cost GLF, a numerically small group, popular support in New York City, and some of its members left to form the Gay Activists ' Alliance.

When activists founded the Gay Liberation Front ( GLF ) in the wake of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, Jay, openly lesbian, was an early member, and became an active participant, balancing attendance at meetings with working and attending graduate school at New York University, majoring in comparative literature.

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 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.

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.

The agenda is always set by the Head of Government, with GLF Members acting as personal, private political advisors.

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.

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.

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.

The GLF had a broad political platform, denouncing racism and declaring support for various Third World struggles and the Black Panther Party.

The GLF Information Service continued for a few further years providing gay related resources.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Prominent members of the GLF also opposed and addressed other social inequalities between the years of 1969 to 1972 such as militarism, racism, and sexism but because of internal rivalries the GLF officially ended its operations in 1972.

One of the first and most important was the " zap " in May 1970 by the Los Angeles GLF at a convention of the American Psychiatric Association ( APA ).

GLF engages with Governments, not with opposition parties ( unless requested to do so by a Head of Government ).

GLF is served by a Board of Directors ( appointed by GLF Members ) and two Advisory Committees ( appointed by the GLF Board ).