Reform or Revolution: Foster Vs. the GLF

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Reform or Revolution Foster Vs. the GLF

• 1. We see the persecution of homosexuality as
  part of a general attempt to oppress all
  minorities and keep them powerless. Our fate is
  linked with these minorities if the detention
  camps are filled tomorrow with blacks, hippies
  and other radicals, we will not escape that fate,
  all our attempts to dissociate our- selves from
  them notwithstanding. A common struggle, however,
  will bring common triumph.
• , 4) Our enemies, an implacable, repressive
  governmental system much of organized religion,
  business and medicine, will not be moved by
  appeasement or appeals to reason and justice, but
  only by power and force.
• 5) We regard established heterosexual standards
  of morality as immoral and refuse to condone them
  by demanding an equality which is merely the
  common yoke of sexual repression.

• Once his (Fosters) feelings against the GLF
  solidified, he summed up his objection in three
  parts rudeness in personal behavior resentment
  against authority and systematic procedure and
  involvement with other minority groups and their
  alien issues. .the view that if the homosexual
  is to make any progress, the entire existing
  social/political/economic order must be
  overthrown-possibly with force. (225)
• Here were these wild-eyed kids in the GLF
  thinking they are going to take over America and
  the world, when in fact, Foster was convinced,
  they will trigger a right-wing reaction that
  will sink all of our boats together. (231-232)

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Stonewall is overNow What?

• 1. Respectability, reform, or revolution?
• What would you do with Sylvia?
• Do you push for gay marriage or challenge the
  institution itself?
• Do you want to be part of the military?
• 2. Who do you ally with?
• 3.What sorts of actions do you take?
• Electoral work, Consciousness raising groups,
  Education, Protest, lawsuits, armed revolution?
• 4. Who/what do you target?

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Have a drink?

• How does drinking affect peoples status at Knox
  College?
• What is the causal argument in Symbolic Crusade?
  Why do people join the Temperance movement?