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3 unusual facts about Gay Liberation Front


Gay Liberation Front

The first meeting of the Festival of Light was organised by Mary Whitehouse at Methodist Central Hall.

In 1970, "The U.S. Mission", had a permit to use a campground in the Sequoia National Forest.

Ian Buist

Buist was a campaigner for gay rights and joined the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) in 1972, which he saw as a less radical alternative to the Gay Liberation Front: Buist said their "idea of an anti-family, anti-Establishment social revolution seemed to me unlikely to produce change for the better".


John Edward Heys

The newspaper also contained illustrations by Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, as well as regular contributors as Arthur Bell, Taylor Mead, Charles Ludlam, Pudgy Roberts, Bill Vehr, Pat Maxwell,Clayton Cole and regular columns from all of the active LGBSTG groups, from the most conservative Mattachine Society to the most radical The Gay Liberation Front, and all the other groups in between.


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