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"Gays must organize because it is the only way a class of people that has been cut adrift by society can deal with that fact. Everywhere we find hostility, prejudice and condescension, even amongst ourselves. Most gays accept, in self-defense, the straight man's mythology that says we're sick, immature, perverse, deviant, and thus should hide our love away in tearooms, park bushes, on cruising streets, and in Mafia- or otherwise pig-controlled bars. Those who reject the mythology, developing positive atlitudes toward their homosexuality, are even more offensive to straights. We risk brutalization and imprisonment and have little altei native but to use the traditional oppressive cruising institutions. These myths and institutions keep us isolated and distrustful of each other. And don't expect any help from our straight oppressors in creating alternatives. We're on our own."
FROM A GAY MALE CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING GROUP
PART 1/ JOIN US! AN INTRODUCTION TO GAY LIBERATION
Christopher Street Liberation Day, June 28, 1970 / Out of the Closets, Into the Streets /
Gay Is Good / Dear Mom / My Soul Vanished From Sight:
A California Saga of Gay Liberation
PART 2 / GAY PEOPLE VS. THE MEDIA
The Closet Syndrome / A Gay Critique of Modern Literary Criticism / An Open Letter to Tennessee Williams / Queer Books
PART 3 / THE MAN'S LAW
Happy Birthday, Baby Butch / Sissy in Prison: An Interview With Ron Vernon / Rapping With a Street Transvestite Revolutionary: An Interview With Marcia Johnson
PART 4/ GAY PEOPLE VS. "THE PROFESSIONALS"
Lesbians and the Health Care System / Gay Liberation Meets the Shrinks / A Leaflet for the American Medical Association / Surviving Psychotherapy / The Orderly / The Anthropological
Perspective / Gay Bureaucrats: What Are They Doing to You?
PART 5 / LESBIANS AND THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT
The Woman-Identified Woman/ Realesbians and Politicalesbians / A Letter From Mary / Take a Lesbian to Lunch / Hanoi to Hoboken, A Round Trip Ticket / Lesbians and the Ultimate Liberation of Women
PART 6/ CUBA: GAY AS THE SUN
The Cuban Revolution and Gay Liberation/ On the Venceremos Brigade: A Forum/ Letter From Cuban Gay People to the North American Gay Liberation Movement /
Declaration by the First National Congress on Education and Welfare / Responses Prom the Gay Revolutionary Party and the Gay Committee of Returned Brigadistas
PART 7 / SEX AND ROLES
Gay Revolution and Sex Roles / Smash Phallic Imperialism / On Sex Roles / Cruising:
Games Men Play / The Fairy Princess Exposed / The Politics of My Sex Life / Portrait of the Lesbian as a Young Dyke / Will You Still Need Me When I'm 64?
PART 8/MOVING TOGETHER
My Gay Soul/ Looking at Women/ Leaving the Gay Men Behind / Notes on Male
Consciousness-Raising / Somewhere in the Right Direction: Testimony of My Experience in a Gay Male Living Collective / Problems of an Inter-racial Relationship / Epistle to
Tasha / Elitism / Viewpoint of an Anti-Sexist Marxist
PART 9 / MANIFESTOS
A SELECTED GAY BIBLIOGRAPHY
AN INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF GAY ORGANIZATIONS”