The Red Butterfly

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.

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…

Classic speech against gay oppression written by Kurt Hiller for the Second International Congress…

A Marxist analysis of discrimination experienced by LGB people, published by a section of the Gay…

A radical manifesto for gay liberation published by the Marxist cell of the US Gay Liberation Front in 1970.

Introductory pamphlet about gay liberation produced by The Red Butterfly, a Marxist cell within the New York Gay Liberation Front first published…