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In September 1971, members of GLF/Milwaukee marched openly for the first time in an anti-war protest, reflecting GLF’s policy of “taking sexuality to the streets.” Within a year, GLF/Milwaukee had disbanded and GLO, now renamed Gay People’s Union (GPU), with Alyn Hess as its chairperson, had moved from UWM into the community. Some members of GLO, however, objected to the militancy of the action and as a result, the more militant members withdrew from the organization, aligning themselves with the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), “a mixed-gender, gender-bending group of radicalized men and women” with roots in the protest movements of the 1960s.
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By 1971, Kaleidoscope, Milwaukee’s “underground press,” reported that it had “both a women’s liberation and a gay liberation collective, made up of people on the staff.” In May 1970, GLO student activists joined a massive protest against the Vietnam War, shutting down UWM.
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Feminists therefore, had a significant edge when it came to building a movement from the beginning, women’s liberation in Milwaukee included many lesbians who became increasingly visible as members of lesbian feminist groups.Įarly efforts to organize gay men and women in Milwaukee included the formation of the Gay Liberation Organization (GLO) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) and two attempts to open feminist centers, in 19, neither of which lasted. By the time of the uprising at New York’s Stonewall Inn in June 1969 and the formation of gay liberation groups across the country, reports from small group discussions that prefigured the women’s liberation movement had been circulating for two to three years. In the process, they have demonstrated vibrant activism and artistry bifurcated by the politics of gender and race. The composite designation “LGBT” functions as an acronym to describe lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Milwaukeeans who, since the 1960s, have challenged the city and metropolitan region to end gender and sex based forms of discrimination.