![]() Aubrey and Bob had independently been hanging out in New York GLF that summer and met for the first time at the “Revolutionary Peoples Constitutional Convention” in Philadelphia, called by the Black Panther Party. On the 4th July Lesbians and Gay Men from the Matachine Society New York, in response to the riots, staged a walk-out and moved to the Alternative University in Greenwich Village where they founded what became the Gay Liberation Front.Īubrey Walter and Bob Mellor founded the Gay Liberation Front in London, on 13th October, 1970 at the L.S.E. The fighting spread out of the doors and onto the streets and as police reinforcements were called in became a riot that spread throughout the West Village, and continued for three nights in a row. ![]() ![]() New York’s finest encountered black and white drag queens, gay men and lesbians, sick of police brutality, and who on being physically provoked fought back. On the 27th June, 1969 as part of its policy of raiding and closing Gay Bars, the New York Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn to rough up the customers and make a few arrests. ![]()
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