HIS 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gay Liberation Front, Gay Liberation, Mattachine Society
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1955 a group of lesbians joined,known as the daughters of bilitis. These women separated from the men thought because they had difference struggles, on top of being gay, they were women. Ladder: focus was created on a positive gay image internally and externally. New young members start to hoin in the 1960s and lead the beginning of an even bolder phase of political activism. Glf urged members and every game man and women to make a public proclamation to come out as a public form of resistance: significance: emergence of gay identity. Coming out meant something politically in the gay liberation front in the 1960s. Different from the 1940s and 1950s of the homophile movement. Being gay was not about sex, rather about identity. This also sharpens the idea that heterosexuality is an identity. 2003 supreme court of massachusetts said that it is constitutional for same-sex people to marry. 2003 jean robinson first bishop to come out.
