Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today, Woman Worker, Class Fighter and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

Young come out - angry and

Nothing to Lose, a World to Gain! Where we stand (Class Fighter pamphlet), early 1983 · scan pp. 11–12 · about 173 words

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"Lie to your workmates folks, Put down the queens jokes' Long the invisible oppressed, buried under centuries of persecution by the Church and the state, young gays and lesbians have finally emerged, angry and proud.

There were gay liberation movements in the 19th and early 20th centuries, especially in Germany, but these were crushed by fascism. You didn't just have to be a Jew to be gassed, being gay or lesbian ensured death in the gas chambers Tom Robinson, "Glad to be Gay"

JOIN GAY LPYS

If you are gay and want to join with other gay youth in fighting to make the YS take up the issue of gay rights contact Gay LPYS at LCGR, 61a Bloom Street, Manchester as well.

Stalin also had gays in the USSR executed or sent to labour camps.

The modern gay movement is much bigger. There are Gay Switchboards, gay centres, and gay clubs in most large towns.

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/RICHTS and challenge the reactionary laws and ideas which form the basis of this dis-

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