The Red Butterfly - John Lauritsen
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 4 2016 23:15
A first person account of involvement in and the activity of The Red Butterfly, a socialist "cell" within the US Gay Liberation Front 1969-1971.
Critique of the "gay demands" - The Red Butterfly
A communiqué issued by the revolutionary socialist cell within the Gay Liberation Front critiquing what they saw as "gay nationalism" and "extreme segregationism" in a document called "gay demands" issued at the Black Panther Party's “Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention Planning Session” in Philadelphia, 5 September 1970. It was distributed at a follow-up BPP convention in Washington DC in November. While we may not agree with all of it, particularly the passages which slip into transphobia, we reproduce it here for reference.
Appeal on behalf on an oppressed human variety - Kurt Hiller
Classic speech against gay oppression written by Kurt Hiller for the Second International Congress for Sexual Reform in Copenhagen in 1928, which was translated by the Marxist cell within the Gay Liberation Front and published in 1970.
Gay oppression: a radical analysis - The Red Butterfly
A Marxist analysis of discrimination experienced by LGB people, published by a section of the Gay Liberation Front in New York in 1970.
The gay manifesto - Carl Wittman
A radical manifesto for gay liberation published by the Marxist cell of the US Gay Liberation Front in 1970.
Gay liberation - The Red Butterfly
Introductory pamphlet about gay liberation produced by The Red Butterfly, a Marxist cell within the New York Gay Liberation Front first published in 1970.
