Queens Liberation Front

Queens Liberation Front (QLF)  was a group in New York City that worked to support the rights of transvestites and drag queens. It was formed in 1969 and was active during the 1970s. In 1971, the group began publishing a magazine called Drag Queens: A Magazine About the Transvestite. QLF also worked together with other LGBTQ activist groups, such as the Gay Activists Alliance and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.

 Formation 
Queens Liberation Front was founded as Queens by Lee Brewster in 1969.  At his first ball in February 1969, Brewster announced plans to form the group, with October 31, 1969 (Halloween, a particularly popular holiday in the drag community) to be its formal founding date.

The organization was created partly to protest how drag queens were pushed to the back of the march during the first Christopher Street Liberation Day in June 1970. In response, the street queens from STAR moved to the front and marched at the front of the parade anyway.Rivera, Sylvia, "Queens In Exile, The Forgotten Ones" in Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. Untorelli Press, 2013.

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