Who wrote the gay manifesto

First printed in Gay Community News, February“We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. Humans originally made homosexuality taboo because they needed every bit of energy to produce and raise children: survival of species was a priority.

Where once there was frustration, alienation, and cynicism, there are new characteristics among us. We have pretended everything is OK, because we haven't been able to see how to change it — we've been afraid. And we have formed a ghetto, out of self-protection.

With overpopulation and technological change, that taboo continued only to exploit us and enslave us. And we are euphoric, high, with the initial flourish of a movement.

The gay manifesto Carl

Shortly before the Stonewall Rebellion he wrote ‘Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto,’ which was printed on 22nd December, in San Francisco and all around the U.S.A. As kids we refused to capitulate to demands that we ignore our feelings toward each other.

The gender of that object is imposed socially. We have fled here from every part of the nation, and like refugees elsewhere, we came not because it is so great here, but because it was so bad there. A radical manifesto for gay liberation published by the Marxist cell of the US Gay Liberation Front in Carl Wittman (February 23, – January 22, ) was a member of the national council of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and later an activist for LGBT rights.

It is primarily for ourselves, a starting point of discussion. We want to make ourselves clear: our first job is to free ourselves; that means clearing our heads of the garbage that's been poured into them. This article is an attempt at raising a number of issues, and presenting some ideas to replace the old ones.

San Francisco is a refugee camp for homosexuals. Amerika in all its ugliness has surfaced with the war and our national leaders. It should also be clear that these are the views of one person, and are determined not only by my homosexuality, but my being white, male, middle class.

We have fled here from every part of the nation, and like refugees elsewhere, we came not because it is so great here, but because it was so bad there. Wittman declined hospital treatment for AIDS and died by suicide by drug overdose at home in North.

He co-authored "An Interracial Movement of the Poor?" () [1] with Tom Hayden and wrote "A Gay Manifesto" [2] (). And as we recall all the self-censorship and repression for so many years, a reservoir of tears pours out of our eyes. Straight cops patrol us, straight legislators govern us, straight employers keep us in line, straight money exploits us.

THE HOMOSEXUAL MANIFESTO By Michael Swift, "Gay Revolutionary." Reprinted from The Congressional Record of the United States Congress. It is my individual consciousness. If straight people of good will find it useful in understanding what liberation is about, so much the better.

in The article became a guide to gay activism and gay life, and was used in particular by the Gay Liberation Front.” (Carl Wittman. It is a ghetto rather than a free territory because it is still theirs. Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto by Carl Wittman () San Francisco is a refugee camp for homosexuals.

In the past year there has been an awakening of gay liberation ideas and energy. How it began we don't know; maybe we were inspired by black people and their freedom movement; we learned how to stop pretending form the hip revolution. We are full of love for each other and are showing it; we are full of anger at what has been done to us.

And we are revulsed by the quality of our ghetto life. Our group consciousness will evolve as we get ourselves together - we are only at the beginning. What homosexuality is: Nature leaves undefined the object of sexual desire.