FBI Memo 12-10-1969 Contrasting Gay Liberation Front and Mattachine Society, FBI (Record, December 1969)
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Credit to Douglas M. Charles, FBI historian and author of "Hoover's War on Gays: Exposing the FBI's Sex Deviates Program".
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
TO: SAC, NEW YORK
FROM: SA [redacted]
SUBJECT: GAY LIBERATION FRONT
SM-C
On 12/9/69, [redacted] was interviewed by SAS [redacted] and [redacted] at the NYO. [redacted] furnished the following information:
On Saturday, 12/6/69, he was interviewed at the NYO by SA [redacted] (#342), at which time [redacted] provided information regarding [redacted]
According to [redacted], there is a publication "Gay Scenes" published by NOEL FABRICANT. FABRICANT also publishes the "East Village Other". As an off shoot of the publication "Gay Scenes", an organization was formed namely the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). The purpose, activities and objectives of the GLF are quite similar to those of the Mattachine Society. Both organizations are composed of homosexuals who organized in order to obtain recognition of their problems and to gain social acceptance.
The main difference between the Mattachine Society and the GLF is that the members of the GLF are younger and more liberal.
Members of the GLF known to [redacted] are [redacted] whose father is [redacted] and [redacted] have an affair or a thing going on between them. [redacted] has stated to [redacted] that [redacted]
It is to be noted the Manhattan Address Telephone Directory reflected [redacted]
