Somehow I missed this - they posted up the intervew with my late partner, John Lindsay as part of The Log Books podcast Series 4, episode 1. He was one of the founders of Gay Switchboard.

Tash spoke at John's funeral. Sadly I missed the book launch...I would have been there but missed the email.

I am probably going to cry listening to this. Not many recordings of his voice.

He is featured in the new book as well with I think a photo I took of John.

https://shows.acast.com/thelogbooks/episodes/switchboards-first-night-episode-1

#queerhistory #gayswitchboard #queer #switchboard #lgbtq #lgbt #interview #gayliberationfront #glf

All about the Mattachine Society, the first enduring U.S. gay rights group

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/history/all-about-mattachine-society

Today in Labor History October 13, 1970: The UK Gay Liberation Front was founded in the basement of the London School of Economics by Bob Mellors and Aubrey Walter, who had seen the effectiveness of the movement in the U.S. They published the GLF Manifesto and launched a series of high-profile direct actions, like the disruption of the launch of the Church-based morality campaign, Festival of Light.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #gayliberationfront #lgbtq #dirctaction

Today in Labor History July 24, 1969: The Gay Liberation Front was founded in New York City less than one month after the Stonewall Riots. Members of the GLF would go on to found other radical queer activist groups like the Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Youth New York, and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and later groups such as ACT UP, the Lesbian Avengers, Queer Nation, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. The GLF had a broad political platform, that was anti-racist and anti-capitalist. They supported various Third World struggles and the Black Panthers. They attacked the nuclear family and traditional gender roles. Some of their earliest direct actions were protests against the negative portrayal of queer people in the media, with an early focus on the homophobia of the Village Voice. Later in 1969, they started publishing their own magazine, “Come Out!”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lgbtq #gayliberationfront #Revolutionary #liberation #anticapitalist #blackpanthers #ACTUP #lesbianavengers #QueerNation #sistersofperpetualindulgence #stonewall #Riot

Today in Labor History July 2, 1951: Transgender revolutionary activist Sylvia Rivera was born. Ran away from home at age 11 to avoid abuse and did sex work to survive. As she got older, she became active in the antiwar movement and black liberation struggle, and then with the Gay Liberation Front. Together, with her friend Marsha P Johnson, and others, she co-founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries in 1970. This radical group helped raise funds to rent an apartment to house and support homeless queer youth. Much of that funding came from their sex work. She was very critical of the mainstream, middle-class, cis leadership of the gay rights movement, particularly when the 1986 Gay Rights Bill was passed without mentioning trans people. At the Christopher Street Liberation Day Rally in New York City, in 1973, Rivera jumped onstage during feminist Jean O'Leary's speech, which disparaged drag queens, and shouted: "Y'all Better Quiet Down! You go to bars because of what drag queens did for you, and these bitches tell us to quit being ourselves!" Today she is known as one of the leaders who made sure there was a T in LGBTQ.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sylviarivera #transgender #lgbtq #revolutionary #stonewall #pride #transphobia #sexwork #gayliberationfront

Today in Labor History August 5, 1969: The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurred in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front, as well as the city’s first pride parade. They raided a movie theater that was screening the film “The Lonesome Cowboys,” by directed by Andy Warhol and written by Paul Morrisey, which was a parody of Hollywood cowboy films.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #pride #lgbtq #andywarhol #paulmorrisey #film #hollywood #georgia #atlanta #gayliberationfront

Today in Labor History July 24, 1969: The Gay Liberation Front was founded in New York City less than one month after the Stonewall Riots. Members of the GLF would go on to found other radical queer activist groups like the Gay Activists Alliance, Gay Youth New York, and Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and later groups such as ACT UP, the Lesbian Avengers, Queer Nation, and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. They used the words “Liberation Front” in their name as a provocative nod to, and show of solidarity with, other revolutionary groups like the Algerian Liberation Front and the Vietnamese Liberation Front.

The GLF had a broad political platform, that was anti-racist and anti-capitalist. They supported various Third World struggles and the Black Panthers. They attacked the nuclear family and traditional gender roles. Some of their earliest direct actions were protests against the negative portrayal of queer people in the media, with an early focus on the homophobia of the Village Voice. Later in 1969, they started publishing their own magazine, “Come Out!”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #lgbtq #gayliberationfront #Revolutionary #liberation #anticapitalist #blackpanthers #ACTUP #lesbianavengers #QueerNation #sistersofperpetualindulgence #stonewall #Riot

Pride Month isn't over yet, so why not listen to this excellent podcast from
@workingclasshistory on the history of the Stonewall rebellion?

"Summer 2019 marks 50 years since the iconic rebellion against the police raid of the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The LGBT+ patrons and locals, many of them people of colour, and most of them working class, fought back against the police in 6 days of rioting. Then they organised, revolutionising the LGBT+ rights movement, and sparking Pride.

In honour of Pride month, WCH are releasing a series of episodes about LGBT+ history. We begin with a double episode telling the story of the Stonewall rebellion, in the words of participants.

After the rebellion, participants in it, along with others, set up the Gay Liberation Front, and then organised a protest on its first anniversary, 28 June 1970, which became Pride."

https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e25-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/

#PrideMonth #Pride #StonewallRebellion #GayLiberationFront #PrideIsAProtest