San Francisco

Come to a discussion led by Leo Laurence and Pat Brown, founding members of the Gay Liberation Front at Pleasures & Treasures Store, 2525 University Ave, North Park area of SD (across the street from University Ave and Arizona St)

Three months before the Stonewall Inn riots in New York city in June 1969 which are commonly(but wrongly) thought to be the start of the Gay liberation movement, a group of Gay activists in San Francisco started the nation’s first Gay Liberation Front. After one of their members was fired from his job for being Gay and “outing” himself via a photo in the Bay Area’s legendary underground newspaper, the Berkeley Barb, the San Francisco Gay Liberation Front mounted the first Gay-rights demonstration against a private employer in U.S. history in March 1969.

LGBT and civil rights activists throughout the state of California are

organizing a rally and march for Saturday December 4, 2010. The rally

for equality will take place in San Francisco where two days later the

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will take up the

Prop 8 issue. Other states within the jurisdiction of the Ninth

Circuit are also involved in planning this march and rally as well as

their own local solidarity events.