LGLF Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Website: www.lglf.org
LESBIAN AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT LAUNCHES US HOMOPHILE ORGANIZATION ​

September 13, 2021: A new US organization by and for lesbians and gay men launches today. The LESBIAN AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT brings together activists from all over the US who are uniting to advocate for the rights of homosexual people and bring awareness of the harms lesbians and gay men face from modern day issues like gay conversion therapy, increased hate crimes in the USA, and a new wave of homophobia that has emerged, thinly veiled by inclusivity and disguised as a “human rights movement.” Homosexual people’s dignity and autonomy are under direct attack by gender identity ideology, radical trans activists, and major institutions―and the LESBIAN AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT is here to fight back.




The aim of the LESBIAN AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT is to defend homosexuality, uphold biological sex, and protect single-sex spaces. The organization has launched with a resource-heavy website, and an online event is planned to celebrate the launch on September 19, 2021.

Attempts to ban gay conversion therapy have been undermined by transgender rights activists’ insistence on conflating sex and gender. It remains legal in 30 states. Homosexual people, especially gay men, remain the number one most targeted demographic in the “LGBTQIA+” acronym for hate crimes in the USA. Popular culture, influenced by gender identity ideology, now brands homosexuality as “transphobic” and bigoted in being “exclusionary” of heterosexual people. Therefore, it threatens the autonomy and dignity of lesbians and gay men―and our rights. This ideology includes these harmful ideas to homosexual people:

1. Major institutions are working to redefine same-sex attraction as “same-gender attraction,” which posits that sexual orientation is based not on the material reality of biological sex but instead on “gender identity.”
2. Gender-nonconforming children and young people, many of whom would otherwise grow up gay, are being medicalized on a mass scale in various interventions for “treating” feelings of gender dysphoria.
3. Harmful across the board, especially for women and girls, the loss of single-sex services and spaces harms us as homosexual people, because lesbians and gay men depend on these services and spaces for dating and socializing.

The LESBIAN AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT was spearheaded by activist, musician, and desister Kurtis Tripp, because he saw the need for a group that advocates specifically for the rights of homosexual people.

According to Tripp: “LGLFmaintains that homosexuality is defined as being sexually attracted solely to persons of one's own sex, and that it isn’t bigotry to maintain exclusive same-sex attraction. It’s okay to be gay. Gay is good!”
Some of the other members of the LESBIAN AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT include:

• LGLF has partnered with the founder of the Boxer Ceiling, a project which documents homophobic abuse from gender identity ideologues who demand that gay men shift the basis of our sexual orientation away from biological sex toward “gender identity.” The Boxer Ceiling also exhibits anti-gay hate speech expressed in the name of “trans rights.”
• John Robertson: A 22-year homelessness advocate, who has worked in the nonprofit sector for over two decades, John’s focus is the importance of single-sex services and spaces, as, over the years, he has witnessed them becoming dismantled in the homeless shelters housing the people he helped.​
• Donovan Cleckley: A women’s rights and gay rights activist, Donovan’s research, mostly in social movement rhetoric, has critiqued misogyny and homophobia, two main traits seen in the modern transgender rights movement. He believes that the boundaries of women and girls, as well as those of lesbians and gay men, matter.
• Diana Goldman: A butch lesbian with years of activism experience, Diana is here to help fight against the transing of the next generation of lesbians.

Ideological harms facing lesbians and gay men in our country today grow more rampant every day, and we must unite to defend ourselves. The loss of single-sex services and spaces has far-reaching consequences for both women and homosexual people. While they do face terrible issues, particularly related to single-sex services and spaces, women are not the only group suffering from the institutional capture of gender identity ideology; indeed, it affects homosexual people, too.

Sexual orientation is rooted in biological sex, not “gender identity,” thus, by attacking the definition of biological sex, gender identity ideology attacks homosexuality. This new branding of homosexuality as “bigoted,” “exclusionary,” “fetishistic,” “immoral,” and “transphobic” represents, in our time, a new brand of homophobia.
With these newer methods of homophobia in mind, unity between lesbians and gay men for gay rights has come again, as it did for the Gay Liberation Front in the aftermath of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969. Conversion therapy, hate crimes, gender identity ideology as a new dominant ideology―all of these harms to our community have necessitated a return to our roots: gay liberation.
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The LESBIAN AND GAY LIBERATION FRONT is working to defend the autonomy of gay people, uphold the importance of biological sex, and preserve single-sex services and spaces. And we will not be backing down any time soon. As we should have never forgotten, we must remember, again, for our bodies as ourselves: Gay is good.

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