The Gay Liberation Movement from 1860 to 1971

1. 1860-1935: “The Movement that did not exist” 4

2. 1950-1969: “The Three Major Groups and Their Aims and Criticisms”

Part III: The Stonewall Riots in 1969 11 Part IV: The Gay Liberation Front 13

4.1 Carl Wittman’s “A Gay Manifesto” 14

In my paper, I will focus on the Gay Liberation Movement until the 1970s. The Gay movement extents beyond that time but I think the most crucial years of the movement were the 1960s and 1970s when the first major progress was made and the situation of the homosexuals was especially dire. Homosexual acts were forbidden by law in most of the states in the 1960s, same sex couples were also not allowed to marry or to adopt children. Often it was illegal for gays to work for the government, they were also discriminated by private employers,

We are refugees from Amerika. So we came to the ghetto-and as other ghettoes, it has its negative and positive aspects. Refugee camps are better than what preceded them, or people never would have come. But they are still enslaving, inasmuch as we are limited to being ourselves there and only there.

• Alignment with non-homosexual Movement and Movement-type causes 5

2. 1950-1969: “The three major groups and their aims and criticisms”

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