Michael Scherker research files, 1989.

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Michael Scherker research files, 1989.

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Files pertaining to research on the 1969 Stonewall Riot, in which the New York City Police Department and the gay community on Christopher Street came into violent conflict; includes Federal Bureau of Investigation files on the Gay Liberation Front and the Mattachine Society of New York acquired under the New York State Freedom of Information law; also correspondence with NYPD and FBI concerning the release of the papers. Also, correspondence to gay press re publicity for his project, single issues of papers mentioning it; and anonymous Christian literature addressed to Scherker and responses to the Stonewall project.

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Gay Liberation Front (New York, N.Y.)

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The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) was a loosely structured group of gay rights activists who were interested in the radical sexual liberation for all people. In the summer of 1969, independent GLF chapters were founded in several cities, including New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. Members in Los Angeles offered draft counseling, and organized "Gay-ins," dances, protests, and other demonstrations. Founded soon after the Stonewall Riots in New York, New York...

Mattachine Society of New York

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The Mattachine Society, Inc. of New York was founded in New York City in 1955 for the purpose of educating the public in all aspects of homosexuality, for assisting individual gays in coping with problems related to their homosexuality, and for obtaining full civil and social rights for homosexuals. The MSNY was one of several offshoots of the Mattachine Society founded in Los Angeles in 1951. During the 1960s, its most active period, it was a leader in the struggle to p...

Scherker, Michael

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