February 25-April 8 Vancouver At a […]
When
1973-02-25 – 1973-04-08
Description
February 25-April 8 Vancouver At a general meeting of GATE (Vancouver) held February 25, the membership decided to launch a formal protest against the Georgia Straight's cavalier attitude towards gay liberation, its mutilation of material submitted by GATE, and the overt sexism and homophobia that sometimes appeared in its editorials and cartoons. A series of charges and countercharges soon emerged from both sides. The Straight claimed that GATE was a "Trotskyist Front." GATE threatened to picket the offices of the Straight, which it finally did on March 29 and 30, 1973, but to no avail. On April 8, GATE called for a boycott of the paper.
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Herbert Spiers, "Further Revelations" (letter, with response by Dan McLeod), Georgia Straight, 5-11 April 1973, p,4"News of the Gay: Vancouver," Body Politic, no. 8 (1973), p. 19;Michael Merrill, Maurice Flood, and Fred Thomson, "Gay Troika Replies" (letter, with response by Dan McLeod), Georgia Straight, 29 March-5 April 1973, p. 6;Haslett, "GATE Pickets Straight," Georgia Straight, 29 March—5 April 1973, p. 8;"GATE Withdraws" (letter), Georgia Straight, 10-17 August 1972, p. 7;Maurice J. Flood, "Gay Pompousity (sic)" (letter), Georgia Straight, 22-28 March 1973, p. 10;Maurice J. Flood, "GATE to Picket Straight" (letter). Grape (Vancouver), 29 March-10 April 1973, p. 6;(Walter Blumenthal), "Indeed, Sir!" (letter), Georgia Straight, 5-11 April 1973, p. 8;
