In 1969 the battle for civil rights took a mainstream spotlight after the NYPD raided a bar in the Greenwich Village called the stonewall inn. Three days and nights of rioting ensued after the incident, catalyzing “the gay rights movement from one limited to a small number of activists into a widespread protest for equal rights and acceptance.”(1)

Following Stonewall a flurry of gay rights groups exploded onto the scene. The more prominent of these groups being the Gay Liberation Front(2), commonly called the GLF, who were pushing for radical change viewing the world as the hurdle to overcome, and The Gay Activists Alliance(3) whom wished to earn equality by working within the socio-political world. An example of extreme revolutionist propaganda by early gay rights activists would be a GLF newspaper called “come out!” Stating a credo of social revolution:

“Gay liberation front is a revolutionary group of homosexual women and men formed with the......

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Title: The Socio-Political Struggle For Gay Rights
Approximate Word Count: 505
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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