Gay Liberation Fronts

As the initial exuberance of the law reform movement yielded to a dogged determination to persevere in the face of prejudice and frustration, a new mood of impatience was experienced in many quarters, not least on the part of many homosexuals. The Stonewall riots had issued in the formation of groups known as Gay Liberation Fronts, groups of gays determined to emerge from the shadows and to come out as self-professed gay activists within the political arena. The US lead was emulated amongst a group of students at the London School, of Economics where the first English Gay Liberation Front came into being in October 1970. GLF's began to blossom, though none as yet in New Zealand.