- Collection:
- Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
- Title:
- Seattle Gay Liberation Front Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 5, December 11, 1970
- Creator:
- Gay Liberation Front
- Contributor to Resource:
- University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division.
- Date of Original:
- 1970
- Subject:
- Gay rights--Washington (State)--Seattle
Human rights--Washington (State)--Seattle
Gay Liberation Front (Seattle, Wash.)
University of Washington Daily
Protest literature - Location:
- United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207
- Medium:
- pamphlets
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Quote from document: “For as long as women have been struggling against the male-domination prevalent in our society, Lesbians have been the niggers of the women’s movement. Women’s liberation has been running scared in fear of the labels “lesbian” and “dyke” hurled by men trying to quell the rise of self-determination among women. And, for the most part, women have reacted defensively, and have put down their gay sisters in order to appear valid in men’s eyes. But our common goal, as women, must be to write our own definition of womanhood and in order to do this all women, gay and straight, must work together without fear of one another.” Background information: “On June 27, 1969, a routine police raid on a gay bar in Greenwich Village ignited unprecedented rioting among its patrons. Throughout the weekend gay men and lesbians converged on the Stonewall Inn to protest the police and their abusive tactics. Although homosexual rights activists had been organizing for two decades, the sudden explosion of the Stonewall riots ushered in a new gay militancy that soon became known as gay liberation. A few weeks after Stonewall, gay and lesbian activists organized the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). Drawing on the principles and rhetoric of many other radical movements of the 1960s, GLF saw its mission as revolutionary and set its sights on a complete transformation of society. Not only did it hope to dismantle social institutions such as heterosexual marriage and the bourgeois family, but its leaders also forcefully opposed consumer culture, militarism, racism, and sexism.” ( Geoffrey W. Bateman. Gay Liberation Front. GLBTQ.com http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/gay_liberation_front.html )
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/protests/id/405
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/protests:405/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: University of Washington Libraries/id/ Special Collections, [Order Number or Negative Number]
- Extent:
- 28 x 21.5 cm
Scanned from original text at 400 dpi in color, saved in JPEG format and resized to 600 ppi horizontal. Saved at compression rate 3. 2004. - Original Collection:
- Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
Gay Liberation Front - Contributing Institution:
- University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division
- Rights:
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