Gay Activists Alliance , New York collection Bulk, 1970-1974 1969-1998

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Gay Activists Alliance , New York collection Bulk, 1970-1974 1969-1998

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Constitution and bylaws, correspondence, committee structure and reports, along with newspapers, informational pamphlets, fliers, lists of gay and lesbian organizations, photographs, and clippings of the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), New York. The GAA sought to avoid internal conflict by democratically electing an executive committee and to avoid entangling alliances by focusing on gay and lesbian rights issues. The organization utilized coordinated non-violent confrontational actions in the attempt to leverage the power of the straight and gay press to increase the awareness of gay and lesbian civil rights issues, 1969-1981.

2.0 linear feet.; 2 archive cartons, 1 flat box

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.

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Wandel, Richard

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Writer, gay rights activist, and professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. Officer of the Gay Activists Alliance (1970), Christopher Street Liberation Day Committee (1976) and cofounder of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (1985), Kantrowitz is the author of the memoir Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay (1977) and many essays in the gay press. From the guide to the Arnie Kantrowitz papers, 1958-1995, (The New York Public Library. ...

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Administrative History Jim Owles, Marty Robinson, Arthur Evans, and others disenchanted by the lack of structure and focus of the Gay Liberation Front and the rigid hierarchical structure of the Mattachine Society of New York formed the Gay Activists Alliance, GAA. The founders sought to avoid conflicts that had plagued other civil rights organizations by democratically electing an executive committee, holding regular membership meetings, obs...