Rebel Women is a podcast about history's troublemakers.

Today's episode features the formation of the Gay Liberation Front, which was inspired by the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York.

Although the GLF was dominated by men, there were women involved, including several who helped write the manifesto.

While Stonewall and the Gay Liberation Front launched the sexual revolution, they were by no means the first queer activists.

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Special thanks to the National Heritage Lottery Fund for their support of today's episode.

Main theme by DanoSongs. Incidental music by Purple Planet Music.

Produced and edited by Steve Woodward at PodcastingEditor.com.

Further reading

Stonewall Riots (Wikipedia)

Stonewall Uprising: 50 years of LGBT history (Stonewall website) https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/stonewall-uprising-50-years-lgbt-history

The Gay Liberation Front's Sexual Revolution (Peter Tatchell, The Guardian, 12 October 2010)

Gay Liberation front Manifesto (British Library)

Dear Girl: The diaries and letters of two working women 1897 – 1917, edited by Tierl Thompson (currently out of print, available used through Amazon)

100 years after giving women the vote, it's time to recognise lesbian, bi and queer suffragists (Jasmine Andersson, Pink News, 6 February 2018)

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