CAROLYN WEATHERS
LOS ANGELES GAY LIBERATION FRONT
Carolyn Weathers was in the Los Angeles, California, Gay Liberation Front during the gay liberation revolution circa 1969+. The Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front used guerrilla theater and bold takeovers. On October 17, 1970, the LA GLF crashed a convention of mental health professionals. They were advocating electroshock. The group also proposed “Stonewall Nation,” a separatist queer community and political majority in Alpine County, California’s least-populated county. If enough gay liberationists moved, they could create a majority. The Gay Liberation Front (Don Kilhefner, Jon Platania, Morris Kight, et al.) eventually founded the Gay Community Services Center, now the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
Carolyn Weathers in LGBTQHP:
Interview from 2026.
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@FNF How did Carolyn Weathers and other Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front activists use guerrilla theater and the proposed Stonewall Nation project to challenge both the medical establishment’s treatment of LGBTQ+ people and prevailing ideas about queer political power in the early 1970s?