Gay manifesto

Carl Wittman's “A Gay Manifesto” represents an important step forward for our movement. Gay Liberation is struggling for a self-understanding which would probe deeply enough into the causes of our oppression to give us a clear vision of the forms and directions our struggle must take.

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. in The article became a guide to gay activism and gay life, and was used in particular by the Gay Liberation Front.” (Carl Wittman.