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The Come Out! Archive
Come Out - Volume 1 - Issue
Reprinted With the Permission of Perry Brass
Come Out! was the first periodical published by the gay and lesbian people after the Stonewall riots in June, The Male lover Liberation Front, one of the first militant activist gay rights organizations birthed by the riots, published Come Out! from their base in New York City.
Come Out - Volume 1 - Issue
True to many activist groups, the GLF had a manifesto:
"Gay Liberation Front is a coalition of fundamental and revolutionary homosexual men and women committed to fight the oppression of the homosexual as a minority group, and to demand the right to the self-determination of our own bodies." [GLF News, # 11 (?)]
Come Out - Volume 1 - Issue
The Front's manifesto reflects the paradigm modify within the gay rights movement, calling on gays and lesbians to grab a more active and visible approach to the struggle for equal rights. The imperative title is the publication's main objective, and the main target of the GLF - to get gay men and women to arrive out, to make themselves visible. Come Out! aligns itself politically and critically with the feminist/women's/lesbian movemen
Gay Community News
The Gay Group News was established in and later went on to operate as the Bromfield Street Educational Foundation. Until the Bromfield Highway Educational Foundation ceased operation in due to financial difficulties, the Gay Group News was one of the oldest, most evolving national newspapers in the gay community. Eight Boston gays and lesbians started the newspaper in to create a community voice for gays and lesbians in the Boston area. In , the Queer Community News became national in scope and distribution. Recently all the issues of the Gay Group News in the Northeastern Collection have been digitized. The Collection contains the majority of issues between to with only a scattering of issues missing.
The Bromfield Street Educational Foundation also sponsored other projects, including the Prisoners Plan, an effort between and to support gays and lesbians in prison; OutWrite, an annual conference between and for gay and lesbian writers; Off-the-Page, a monthly reading series between and in Boston of gay and lesbian authors; and the Queer Steady Organizing School, a forum in to organize evolving gay activists.
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History
New York City’s first post-Stonewall gay newspaper was GAY POWER, published from September 15, , to June , with only 24 issues. The next was the Gay Liberation Front’s COME OUT!, which the group issued from November 15, , until the winter of These were soon eclipsed by GAY, the creation of personal and professional partners Jack Nichols () and Lige Clarke (Elijah Hadyn Clarke; ), which was first published on December 1,
Nichols was one of the co-founders of the Mattachine Society of Washington, D.C., in with Frank Kameny, and became an important gay rights activist, leader, and reporter. In , Mattachine Washington started a newsletter titled “The Homosexual Citizen” which claimed to be “the movement’s first fully militant civil rights publication.” Nichols met Clarke, then in the Army, in Washington, and they became a couple.
After they moved to New York City in , they both started working for a magazine publisher, where they met Al Goldstein. The couple started a column called “New York Notes” for the Los Angeles-based same-sex attracted newspaper The Advocate in April In November of that year, Goldstein and Jim Buckley
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