Critique of the "Gay demands" : a position paper

On the weekend of 5 September 1970, The Red Butterfly and other GLF (Gay Liberation Front) members went to Philadelphia to attend the Black Panther Party's "Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention (R.P.C.C.) Planning Session". At this event, a Gay Caucus issued a series of demands - which sounded radical, but were half-baked and thoughtless.The Red Butterfly opposed certain of the "gay demands" which have been circulated at the R.P.C.C. Plenary Session in Philadelphia, and subsequently. They state that those demands are not in the interest of the Gay Liberation movement. As a revolutionary movement they cannot support the "gay demands" on a principled basis. Most of the things The Red Butterfly disagree center around what they call "gay nationalism" and around basic defitions of what is meant by "gay" and "homosexual".