Gay liberation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Gay liberation


00:01:54 1 Origins and history of movement
00:02:58 2 1960s
00:08:23 2.1 Vanguard 1965–1967
00:09:35 2.2 1969
00:14:35 3 1970s
00:17:16 4 See also



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The gay liberation movement is a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride. In the feminist spirit of the personal being political, the most basic form of activism was an emphasis on coming out to family, friends and colleagues, and living life as an openly lesbian or gay person. In this period, annual political marches through major cities, usually held in June (to commemorate the Stonewall uprising) were still known as "Gay Liberation" marches. It wasn't until later in the seventies (in urban gay centers) and well into the eighties in smaller communities, that the marches began to be called "gay pride parades."  The movement involved the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in North America, South America, Western Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
Gay liberation is also known for its links to the counterculture of the time (e.g. groups like the Radical Faeries) and for the gay liberationists' intent to transform or abolish fundamental institutions of society such as gender and the nuclear family; in general, the politics were radical, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist in nature. In order to achieve such liberation, consciousness raising and direct action were employed. While HIV/AIDS activism and awareness (in groups such as ACT UP) radicalized a new wave of lesbians and gay men in the 1980s, and radical groups have continued to exist, by the early 1990s the radicalism of gay liberation was eclipsed in the mainstream by newly-out, assimilationist, white gay men who stressed civil rights and mainstream politics.The term gay liberation sometimes refers to the broader movement to free LGBT people from social and legal oppression. Sometimes the term gay liberation movement is even used synonymously or interchangeably with the gay rights movement.