1960s

The 1960s are presented as a period when the marginalization of homosexual people within movements for class liberation and political action began to change. The book connects that shift to challenges against conventional gender roles and to the subsequent emergence of homosexual liberation fronts.

Political Marginalization

The discussion preceding this reference describes homosexual people as having been placed on the periphery of class liberation and political action. It links that exclusion to prevailing judgments about homosexual men and women, while also noting the mistrust of homosexual people in socialist countries. The account frames the 1960s against this background rather than as a wholly new beginning.

The Woman’s Liberation Movement

The book identifies the emergence of the woman’s liberation movement during the decade as a catalyst for change. Its judgments helped discredit, among sexual minorities, the persistent but unattainable models of the strong man and the weak woman. In this account, the movement matters not only for its challenge to gender expectations but also for how that challenge affected people who had been positioned at the margins of political life.

Homosexual Liberation Fronts

The subsequent formation of homosexual liberation fronts is offered as evidence that this shift acquired an organized political form. The passage does not specify particular groups or dates, but presents their emergence as proof of a changed relationship between homosexual people and political action: a population previously described as peripheral began to form fronts in its own name.