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The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Party Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to transform the country from an agrarian society into an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes.
By 1971, the UK GLF was recognized as a political movement in the national press, holding weekly meetings of 200 to 300 people. [45] The GLF Manifesto was published, and a series of high-profile direct actions, were carried out, such as the disruption of the launch of the Church-based morality campaign, Festival of Light. [46]
The Gay Liberation Front in the UK was formed in 1970 in response to the formation of the GLF in the US, which was established after the Stonewall riots in 1969. Prior to the formation of GLF in the UK, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) had been the primary focus for the campaign for gay rights; CHE focused on lobbying government for specific legal reforms, while GLF campaigned for ...
Lower-case lambda, first used in 1970 as a symbol representing gay rights [1] [2]. The gay liberation movement was a social and political movement of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s [a] in the Western world, that urged lesbians and gay men to engage in radical direct action, and to counter societal shame with gay pride. [5]
Come Out! [a] was an American LGBT newspaper that ran from 1969 to 1972.It was published by the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), a gay liberation group established in New York City in 1969, immediately following the Stonewall riots.
The Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) was founded in New York City on December 21, 1969, almost six months after the Stonewall riots, by dissident members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). [1] In contrast to the Liberation Front, the Activists Alliance solely and specifically served to gay and lesbian rights, declared themself politically neutral ...
He took part in the GLF's Highbury Fields march in 1970 against the arrest of Young Liberals chairman Louis Eakes. In 1971, he marched with the GLF's youth group against unequal age of consent laws. [1] He helped organise the first UK Gay Pride Rally in London on 1 July 1972, during which over 2,000 people marched and held a mass kiss-in.
The Persian Gulf campaign of 1809 was an operation by the British East India Company backed by the Royal Navy to force the Al Qasimi to cease their raids on British ships in the Persian Gulf, particularly on the Persian and Arab coasts of the Strait of Hormuz.