[Ads-l] Antedating of "Gay Liberation"

[Shapiro, Fred]

gay liberation (OED 1969 Oct.)


1969 _New York Mattachine Newsletter_ Sept. 1 (Archives of Sexuality & Gender)  The Stonewall raid and the subsequent riots brought a sudden wave of young activists into the Mattachine office, all eager to do something.  With them came much talk of "gay power" and the "gay liberation movement."


Fred Shapiro

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