Speech notes

Class and sexuality homophobic abuse can be directed at any LGB person, but class does affect experience of homophobia eg. escaping homophobic environment more difficult for young unemployed person living at home than for successful business entrepreneur class divides LGB ‘community’ - pink economy has enabled elite to become prosperous gay capitalists - often exploiting gay customers/workers Class struggle main factor linking LGB liberation to class politics = the prospect for full liberation lies with the struggle by the working class for the abolition of class society, for socialism when...

The Stonewall Riot - 28 June 1969 gay bar in New York, raided by police, customers rioted, Tactical Police Force called in, confrontation continued for the next few nights marks the birth of the modern lesbian/gay movement Pride established to mark anniversary (first march 1970 New York, 5,000 people) took place in a wider radical political context - women’s liberation movement, anti-Vietnam, black militancy, student activism Gay Liberation Front new approach - non-apologetic, defiant, uncompromising, radical, active stressed ‘coming out’ as a strategy for building a mass movement unstructured...