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The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was founded in New York City on December 21, 1969, after the Stonewall riots, by dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). Some early members included Jim Owles, Marty Robinson, Kay Lahusen, Arthur Bell, Arthur Evans, Bill Bahlman, Vito Russo, Sylvia Rae Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Jim Coles, Brenda Howard, David Thorstad, and Morty Manford (son of Jeanne Manford). GAA's first president was Jim Owles. The group was incorporated by Hal Weiner, Esq., of Coles & Weiner, a two-person firm, after Weiner defended Sylvia Rivera in a criminal court proceeding where she had been arrested in Times Square while obtaining signatures on a petition for the first proposed LGBTQ legislation in the New York City Council, Intro 472, and charged with soliciting for the purpose of sex, rather than exercising a civil right to petition. The corporate certificate was rejected by the NYS Division of Corporations and State Records, on the grounds that the name was not a fit name for a NY Corporation because of the connotation in which the word " Gay " was being used, and that the corporation was being formed to violate the sodomy laws of New York. It took five years to win the right to incorporate under that name. The group wanted to form a "single issue, politically neutral, whose goal was to "secure basic human rights, dignity and freedom for all gay people." The Gay Activists Alliance was most active from 1970 to 1974. They published the ''Gay Activist'' newspaper until 1980. GAA first met at the Church of the Holy Apostles (9th Ave. & 28th St.) Their next New York City headquarters, the ''Firehouse'' at 99 Wooster Street in Soho, was occupied in May 1971 and burned down by arsonists on October 15, 1974. David Eisenbach, Gay Power, page 266 "By 1980 GAA had begun to sound like the Gay Liberation Front in 1969. After Activists met to officially disband the Alliance a year later..." GAA members performed zaps(first conceived by Marty Robinson), raucous public demonstrations designed to embarrass a public figure or celebrity while calling the attention of both gays and straights to issues of LGBT rights. Some of their more visible actions included protests against an anti-gay episode on the popular TV series ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'', a zap of Mayor John Lindsay at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and later at Radio City Music Hall, a zap against Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (the "Rockefeller 5"), a zap at the Marriage License Bureau demanding marriage rights for gays, a zap against Fidelifacts, which provided anti-gay information to employers, a zap at the NYC Taxi Commission (which required gay cab drivers to get an OK from a psychiatrist before being employed), and a zap at the ''New York Daily News'', which printed a scurrilous editorial attacking "queers, lezzies, pansies, call them what you will." Four were arrested. Although, GAA was nominally nonviolent, zaps could sometimes involve physical altercations and vandalism. GAA co-founder Morty Manford got into scuffles with security and administration during his successful effort to found the student club Gay People at Columbia University in 1971, as well as at a famous protest against homophobia at the elite Inner Circle event in 1972.〔David Eisenbach, ''Gay Power: An American Revolution'' (Da Capo Press, 2007), pg. 183-194〕 GAA was associated with a series of combative zaps against homophobic politicians and anti-gay activists in the summer of 1977. Although ''Time'' magazine derided them as "Gay goons", the actions succeeded in keeping the conservative backlash of the late-1970s out of New York state. The GAA Firehouse on Wooster Street also served as a community center and had extremely popular dances that helped fund the organization. The stairwell was decorated with a photomontage agit-prop mural created by the British artist Mario Dubsky (1939-1985) and the American painter John Button (1929-1982) both of whom were early victims of AIDS. The Mural was destroyed in the fire that destroyed the centre in 1974. The symbol of the Gay Activists Alliance was the lower case Greek letter lambda (λ). ==See also== *List of LGBT rights organizations * Gay Liberation * Gay Liberation Front Early member helped found also, Michael Giammetta 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gay Activists Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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