The gay manifesto

(Of course, it's not all that simple: our capabilities for manipulation are unfathomed - all we can do is try.)

Gay liberation people must understand that women have been treated exclusively and dishonestly as sexual objects. They came out and withstood disapproval before the rest of us did. One major problem is our own male chauvinism.

These are real points of agreement and probably will make it easier for them to get their heads straight about homosexuality, too.

6. It is a ghetto rather than a free territory because it is sill theirs. We don't happen to fit into their ideas of class or caste. 2) If they have suffered from being open, it is straight society whom we must indict, not the queen.

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We also understand that a few liberated women will be appalled or disgusted at the open and prominent place that we put sex in our lives; and while this is a natural response from their experience, they must learn what it means for us.

For us, sexual objectification is a focus of our quest for freedom. The emergence of gay liberation communes, and our own paper is a good start.”

Attempting to unpack that statement is what this whole presentation has been about.

But it isn't ours. Alternatives to Marriage: People want to get married for lots of good reasons, although marriage won't often meet those needs or desires. We strive for democratic, mutual, reciprocal sex. 3) cooperate where cooperation is possible without essential compromise of our identity.

CONCLUSION: AN OUTLINE OF IMPERATIVES FOR GAY LIBERTATION

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We get told it's OK to sleep with guys as long as we sleep with women, too, and that's still putting homosexuality down. We have to realize that our loving each other is a good thing, not an unfortunate thing, and that we have a lot to teach straights about sex, love, strength, and resistance.

Homosexuality is not a lot of things.

Our school friends identify 'queer' with any non-conformist or bad behavior. Amerika in all its ugliness has surfaced with the war and our national leaders. Still many of us shrink from the idea of certain kinds of sex: with animals, sado/masochism, dirty sex (involving piss or shit). The Guild has refused to let us collect defense funds or pass out gay liberation literature in their bars - need we ask why?

Police or con men who shake down the straight gay in return for not revealing him; the bookstores and movie makers who keep raising prices because they are the only outlet for pornography; heads of 'modeling' agencies and other pimps who exploit both the hustlers and the johns - these are the parasites who flourish in the ghetto.

SAN FRANCISCO - Ghetto or Free Territory: Our ghetto certainly is more beautiful and larger and more diverse than most ghettos, and is certainly freer than the rest of Amerika.

The collection of these materials began in the late 1960s or early 1970s and continued into the 2020s. It includes event flyers, programs, correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, and other documentation of local, regional, and national LGBTQ+ organizations, and in some cases anti-LGBTQ+ organizations or rhetoric.