Blowing the Lid: Gay Liberation, Sexual Revolution and Radical Queens

by Stuart Feather

Overview

The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being treated as sick by the medical establishment. GLF saw itself as a people’s movement for gays, socialist by virtue of its demand for social change, and revolutionary in recognizing the rights of other oppressed minorities to determine the fight for their own demands. All history is personal. The author of this political memoir is the first participant of the Front to write a history of the lesbians and gay men who joined Gay Liberation and through a process of Coming Out and radicalization initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of this country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785351433
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	02/26/2016
Pages:	576
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Stuart Feather is the first participant of the Front to write a history of the lesbians and gay men who joined Gay Liberation.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations 1

Chronology 3

Acknowledgements 27

Introduction 30

Chapter 1 Coming Out 46

Chapter 2 Have a Gay Day 80

Chapter 3 Gay is Good 116

Chapter 4 Northern Exposure 134

Chapter 5 The Permissive Society and its Enemies 158

Chapter 6 Revolution in the head … and/or in the World 176

Chapter 7 Freaking Out the Fundamentalists 196

Chapter 8 Ideologies Clash 225

Chapter 9 A British Army Hero 285

Chapter 10 Court Circular 292

Chapter 11 Trials and Tribulations 305

Chapter 12 Transvestites and Transsexuals 319

Chapter 13 Party Games and a Serious Proposal 337

Chapter 14 The Parting of the Ways 345

Chapter 15 Knitting for Victory 374

Chapter 16 Gay News 385

Chapter 17 Gay Pride and Gay Prejudice 416

Chapter 18 Radical Drag Queens at Home 456

Chapter 19 Radical Drag Queens in the Community 495

Chapter 20 Bethnal Rouge ? Curtains - The GLF Legacy 529

Notes 548

Bibliography 567

Index of Names 571