Queer Liberation Started in San Francisco, Not Stonewall (tags)
The legend says America's — and the world's — Queer liberation movement began with the riot at the Stonewall Inn bar in New York City in June 1969. But three months before, militant Queer activists in San Francisco had launched the Committee for Homosexual Freedom (CHF) and mounted the first-ever picket against a private employer for discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Leo Laurence and Pat Brown, two veterans of that movement, brought their story to Activist San Diego June 16.
ICE Takes a Stop on PCH and Loynes in Long Beach (tags)
While driving around Long Beach, CA I found a Homeland Security ICE bus parked on the side of the road. What were they doing?
LA FREE PRESS IS BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND