By Stephan Cohen
Between 1966 and 1975 North American formative years activists confirmed over 35 college- and community-based homosexual liberation formative years teams whose contributors sought keep an eye on over their very own our bodies, schooling, and sexual and social family members. This booklet makes a speciality of 3 groundbreaking manhattan urban teams -- homosexual formative years (GY), highway Transvestite motion Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), and the homosexual foreign early life Society of George Washington highschool (GWHS) -- from the appearance of homosexual liberation in NYC in 1969 to only after its dissolution and the increase of identification politics by way of 1975. Cohen examines how homosexual liberation -- with its rejection of stultifying intercourse roles, assault on institutional oppression, connection among own and political liberation, social gathering of innate androgyny, and resolute anti-war and anti-capitalist stance -- formed understandings of sexual identification, club standards, association, decision-making, the jobs of minor and adults, and efforts to influence social change.
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Social Change as Incremental and Regulated Essentialism has dominated western views on race, gender, and sexual orientation. In its most constricting form, essentialism reduces “the complex questions of sexual, racial, and even class differences to irreducible biological imperatives,”29 thereby reinforcing many social prejudices and stereotypes that are often elevated to scientific truth. During the decades before gay liberation, the act of naming oneself within an essentialist framework was freighted with stereotypical religious, psychiatric, and legal definitions of deviancy.
Mark Segal considered Sylvia Rivera and Marsha Johnson to be honorary Gay Youth members, and Segal himself was seen as an honorary member of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries. During its days in the Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse (ca. 7 GY continued to be a resource for the very young. Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) president Morty Manford described receiving a mother’s phone call just as GY was meeting at the GAA Firehouse. 9 GY’S GENESIS The Gay Liberation Front, Radicalesbians, and later the Gay Activists Alliance and Lesbian Feminist Liberation included many young participants, yet these groups did not fully meet the needs of youth.
Mission/goals: Political and social outreach to overcome isolation and achieve a revolutionary society where all are free. Organization: Grassroots. Open meetings. Officers chosen in some groups. Setting: Open and non-confidential. Membership: Defined by commitment to gay liberation. Multiple racial, ethnic, gender identities. Children as young as nine expressed interest. Groups run by and for youth (see GY participants, Chapter Four). R. grew out of post-Stonewall activism. San Francisco’s Vanguard and Street Orphans (a young lesbians group) predate Stonewall.