References

  1. “The GAA Alternative,” 2, (#3) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY; “Constitution and Bylaws of the Gay Activists Alliance,” Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  2. “Gay Activists Alliance Membership Application,” (#3) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives; Arthur Bell, Dancing the Gay Lib Blues (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971), 23; “Constitution and Bylaws of the Gay Activists Alliance.”
  3. “The GAA Alternative,” 3.
  4. Toby Marotta, The Politics of Homosexuality (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981), 143.
  5. “What is GAA?” September 1971, Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  6. “GAA Committees and Services,” Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY.
  7. “The GAA Alternative,” 4.
  8. “What is GAA?”
  9. ”The GAA Alternative,” 5.
  10. “Constitution and Bylaws of the Gay Activists Alliance.”
  11. “The GAA Alternative,” 6.
  12. “Constitution and Bylaws of the Gay Activists Alliance.”
  13. ”What is GAA?”
  14. Marotta, Politics, 147; “What is GAA?”
  15. Sandra Vaughn, “Lindsay & Homosexuals: An Edited Encounter,” Village Voice, April 23, 1970, p. 8. Quoted in Marotta, Politics, 155; “Gays Crack Mayor’s Shield,” (#2) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  16. “Gays Crack Mayor’s Shield,” (#2) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives; Bell, Dancing the Gay Lib Blues, 56-7.
  17. Marotta, Politics, 204-5.
  18. Ibid.; Morty Manford, interview by Eric Marcus, Making Gay History (New York: Perennial, 2000), 142-3; Rich Wandel, personal interview, February 14, 2010.
  19. Marotta, Politics, 159.
  20. Teal, Gay Militants, 253-5.
  21. “Statement from Jim Owles on behalf of Gay Activists Alliance,” October 24, 1970, (#2) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives; Kay Lahusen, Making Gay History, 139; Teal, Gay Militants, 257-62.
  22. “The Issue: Gay Rights,” (#3) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  23. Flier publicizing the views of political candidates, (#2) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ, Lesbian Herstory Archives; “Statement from Jim Owles on behalf of Gay Activists Alliance.”
  24. Gay Activists Alliance Press Release, October 24, (#2) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  25. Bell, Dancing the Gay Lib Blues, 139; Marotta, Politics, 160.
  26. Teal, Gay Militants, 262-3
  27. Marotta, Politics, 196.
  28. Ibid., 198; Manford, Making Gay History, 142.
  29. Marotta, Politics, 196. See also: “Fair Employment,” a flier soliciting “information and testimony regarding anti-gay employers to present to the CITY COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS public hearings in late October.” (#2) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives. Emphasis in original.
  30. Marotta, Politics, 202-3.
  31. Ibid., 206.
  32. Peter Fisher, The Gay Mystique (New York: Stein and Day, 1972), 162-63. Quoted in Marotta, Politics, 214-5; “Justice!” (#3) Gay Activists Alliance of NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  33. Marotta, Politics, 215.
  34. Ibid., 219-21.
  35. Ibid., 223.
  36. Marty Robinson, “Trashing of Intro 475: The Closet of Fear,” Village Voice, February 17, 1972, p. 18. Quoted in Marotta, Politics, 225-6.
  37. ”The GAA Alternative,” 5.
  38. Ibid., 7 and 5; “Albany March for Gay Rights, ” (#3) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  39. “Johnny Does it Again!” (#3) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives; “Gay Activists Alliance Invades Harper’s Magazine,” October 27, 1970, (#2) Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  40. ”What is GAA?”; “Gay Committees and Services”; “The GAA Alternative,” 5.
  41. "Justice!”
  42. Marotta, Politics, 193-4.
  43. Ibid., 276-7.
  44. “GAA Committees and Services,” Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives; Marotta, Politics, 277.
  45. “The Lesbian Liberation Committee,” Gay Activists Alliance NY & NJ Organizational File, Lesbian Herstory Archives.
  46. Teal, Gay Militants, 189. The Committee even served as a sort of “liason [sic] between GAA and the lesbian groups in the community.” See: “GAA Committees and Services.”
  47. Jean O’Leary, Making Gay History, 154.
  48. Ibid.
  49. Marotta, Politics, 283-4.
  50. O’Leary, Making Gay History, 154. Emphasis in original.