One of those early pivotal events occurred in 1971, a half century ago with L.A. It is a collective Gay Liberation story of profound significance and magnitude.
Over the next year, I will be writing about that history in Los Angeles (1969-1980), and its pivotal events. Gay Liberation Front which evolved into the Gay Community Services Center (now the LA LGBT Center), then as now, the largest such organization in the world. were the Metropolitan Community Church and the L.A. The early vehicles for this radical revolution in L.A.
In 1969, with the Stonewall Rebellion and the beginning of the militant Gay Liberation movement, the lives of gay and lesbian people in Los Angeles and nationally were transformed.
