Loving @LSEpublicevents on The Gay Liberation Front. Fascinating contributions about the early days of the GLF from Jeffrey Weeks, Angela Mason, Jacob Breslow, Gillian Murphy & Rishi Madlani.
Particularly love the handwritten gay liberation front demands from 1970 💜 #LSEGLF
Dr Jacob Breslow currently speaking about bent bars, letter-writing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, gender-variant, intersex, and queer prisoners in Britain. #LSEGLF bentbarsproject.org
Jeffrey Weeks - "we saw holding hands as a revolutionary act", on various ways the Gay Liberation Front and its members fought against the oppression of, and discrimination against, gay people in Britain. #LSEGLF @LSEpublicevents
Angela Mason - "we used to play gay games" - on going to the park in the 1970s and playing games (like throwing a ball and then kissing the person who caught it) to make LGBT+ people visible. @LSEpublicevents #LSEGLF
Such fun facts about early GLF activity!
Fascinating archival documents presented by @_gillianmurphy on the Gay Liberation Front, including this by the "counter psychiatry group" arguing that "psychiatrists have become the high priests of modern society". #LSEGLF @LSEpublicevents
On exciting new movements including LGBT+ issues & Black Lives Matter: "GLF happened at a point of real political turmoil… [today] it's not exclusively about gender... something bigger is going on now, rather similar to how it was when GLF was happening." - Angela Mason #LSEGLF
Two more great organisations mentioned by Jacob Breslow:
@Genderintell
@Mermaids_Gender
"Part of what the GLF has shown is that there have been trans people, although maybe not under that name, who have been around for decades. This isn't a new thing" Jacob Breslow on how GLF was fighting similar misinformation & fear around trans people as today. #LSEGLF
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