Voices of GLF Members
This section is reserved for people who were members of GLF to post their thoughts on a variety of issues related to GLF history. Members who wish to submit their writing for publication here should send their piece by email to board@glf-foundation.org where it will be reviewed by an editor for content moderation.
The ideas and opinions expressed here are solely those of each author and do not represent an official opinion or position of the Gay Liberation Front Foundation.
Pride Ocean Cruise Panel Discussion
GLF members John Knoebel, Charlotte Bunch, Allen Young and Michela Griffo shared their history with GLF on this 50th anniversary of Pride cruise.
Mark Segal on how GLF changed the movement for LGBTQ rights
Mark Segal happened to be at the Stonewall Inn the night of the famous raid. From that moment, the Gay Liberation Front was born.
Karla Jay on the founding of the Gay Liberation Front
Karla Jay was a founding member of GLF.
Martha Shelley Reading plus a GLF Panel Discussion
Martha Shelley reads from her book “We Set The Night On Fire” plus a panel discussion with GLF members at BGSQD in NYC, October 2023.
Meet GLF Member Bob Kohler
Civil rights organizer who helped connect gay liberation to the wider struggle for human freedom
On Our Own: Gay Men in Consciousness-Raising Groups
In August 1970, one men’s CR group authored a manual for the process in its widely-circulated pamphlet.
Lavender Menace at the National Organization of Women, May 1970
Confronting homophobia at the National Organization of Women, by Martha Shelley.
Third World Gay Revolution: 16 Point Platform and Program
Third World Gay Revolution: 16 Point Platform and Program (1970)
The Woman-Identified Woman
The Woman-Identified Woman manifesto by the Radicalesbians (1970)
Protesting the Police Raid on the Snakepit
An excerpt from Allen Young’s autobiography, “Left, Gay & Green: A Writer’s Life”
A Hot Night in August in the West Village to Washington D.C.
A first-person account of several actions, by Perry Brass
Picketing the Time-Life Building
First-person account of this November 1969 demonstration, by Ellen Broidy
GLF vs. the Mafia
Martha Shelley’s account of an action at Gianni’s, a lesbian bar in the Village
Occupation of NYU’s Weinstein Hall
A first-person account of 5-day protest, by Ellen Broidy.
The genesis of the Pride March
Proposing the march at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO) in 1969, by Ellen Broidy.
Police raid on the Stonewall Bar
June 28, 1969, and the events on the streets afterward, by Mark Segal.
The GLF 95th Street Collective: Hanging Out on Christopher Street, Summer 1970.
Excerpted from the memoir, “50 Years from Stonewall: A Gay American Life in a Time of Change” by John Knoebel