What is the Sexual Revolution? What is the Gay Revolution?
Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation
This brief leaflet provides a response to two questions: What is the Sexual Revolution? What is the Gay Revolution? The writing links sexual revolution to changing relations between men and women and gay liberation to a broader struggle for human liberation.
unknown
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
69
(1 image)
Sexual Liberation
A photo of a couple performing oral sex on each other.
Roz Payne
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s or early-1970s
RAT Subterranean News, February 14-20, 1969
New Left
RAT Subterranean News was published in New York, starting in March of 1968 and was edited by Jeff Shero, Alice Embree and Gary Thiher, who had come North from Austin, Texas, where they worked on The Rag, another important underground paper. Whereas the East Village Other represented the counterculture point of view, RAT had a left political orientation. This issue covers a wide range of topics, including a student demonstration in Linden, New Jersey; a protest against Playboy by the Women's Liberation Front at Grinnell College in Iowa; a Yippie reply to Jerry Rubin; and an article with the complete transcript of the indictment against Clay L. Shaw for conspiring to kill John F. Kennedy. A portion of the issue also highlights local poetry readings and includes advertisements for "swinger" services.
R.A.T. Publications, Inc.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
February 14-20, 1969
underground press
"Liberation of Women: Sexual Repression & the Family," Laurel Limpus
Women's Liberation/Sexual Liberation
This theoretical essay explores the links between women's liberation, sexuality and sexual repression. It was originally published in This Magazine is About Schools, a publication founded in 1966 in Toronto, Canada. While it initially focused on radical education, the magazine widened its focus to other issues over time.
published by New England Free Press
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1970
pamphlet
Sexual Revolution Readings
Women's Liberation
This mimeographed resource contains selected essays and manifestos related to second-wave feminism and reproductive health, with special attention to sexuality, race, class, and gender. Essays included: “Sexuality,” by Roxanne Dunbar; “Masturbation”; “Women-Identified Woman” by the Radicalesbians; and “Abortion or Genocide?” The goal of this resource was to help women raise their consciousness about sexual health, sexuality and contraception.
In the Know, Inc.
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970
mimeograph
pamphlet
Fag Rag, January 1973
Gay Liberation
Fag Rag was a Boston-based gay liberation newspaper published by a group of writers and activists from 1971 through the early-1980s. This issue includes articles about a guide to bars, baths and books; an interview between a Hustler and customer"; a gay Vietnam veteran; generational differences in the gay liberation movement; homosexuals and welfare; the closet; the first international gay liberation congress in Milan; gay pride week; poetry; Miami Democratic Convention; "cocksucking" as a revolutionary act; police repression; race and homosexuality; gay experience at rest stops; homosexuality in prison; letters to the editor.
Fag Rag Collective
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
January 1973
underground press
Fag Rag, June 1971
Gay Liberation
Fag Rag was a significant, Boston-based "gay male newspaper" published from 1971 and the early-1980s. In the wake of the Stonewall rebellion in New York, gay liberation activism in Boston accelerated, including the establishment of a periodical, Lavender Vision. Initially, gay men and women worked on the newspaper together as a "69 publication," meaning half of the newspaper was devoted to gay men and half to gay women. Shortly after its initial publication, though, lesbian activists split, feeling that gay women needed a space of their own. The newspaper was relaunched as a women-centered periodical and local gay men established Fag Rag. At its height, Fag Rag had between 400-500 subscribers and a print run of 4,000-4,500. Like other underground press periodicals, Fag Rag featured a mix of original journalism, opinion and graphic arts related to the gay liberation movement, as well as interviews with notable figures, including, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, John Wieners, Allen Young, Gerard Malanga, John Rechy, Ned Rorem, and Gore Vidal. Features in this issue include: yoga; Phil Ochs; a failed attempt to establish a gay community center; psychology and homosexuality; a reflection by a gay teenager; homosexuality and military service; coming out; the anti-war movement; a critique of the May Day protest in D.C.; “Revolutionary sexism” in the Black Panther Party; Machismo and police; "gayness" and the Cuban Revolution; the objectification of the “cock”; as well as a selection of poetry.
Fag Rag Collective
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
June 1971
underground press
Cold Steel, Mid-Summer 1971
Environmentalism
Two-pages from a short-lived underground press publication in Buffalo, New York. The articles presented here focus on environmental pollution in Lake Erie, as well as rape and female self-defense.
Cold Steel
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mid-Summer 1971
underground press
"Toward a Female Liberation Movement," by Beverly Jones and Judith Brown
Women's Liberation
In this 1968 essay, sometimes referred to as the "Florida Paper," Beverly Jones and Judith Brown put forth a strong, even incendiary, critique of the "Women's Manifesto," which was created by the Women's Caucus at the 1967 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) convention. This document was originally published by the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC). In the 1970 Handbook of Women's Liberation. Marlene Dixon wrote, "That started it if anything written started it. That paper just laid it on the line."
Beverly Jones and Judith Brown, published by New England Free Press
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1968
pamphlet
The Free Press, undated
New Left
The Free Press was a short-lived publication created in 1968 by the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Society at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was introduced initially in 1968 as a placeholder paper for The McGill Daily while it was on hiatus. During the 1960s, The Daily and Free Press were important venues for outspoken students facing opposition from student government and the university administration. They covered issues like the War in Vietnam, women's liberation and reproductive rights, racial justice, gay liberation and the counterculture. The pages of the undated issue here focus on various aspects of the emerging gay liberation movement.
Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Society at McGill University
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. late-1960s
underground press