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A poster that reads “gay is angry” above a collage of a timepiece with a burning fuse, surrounded by butterflies, emerging from a collage containing no parking signs, logos for companies including GE and Kodak, and pieces of magazine text. Between the collage and the text, in 90˚ rotated handwriting, is “gay revolution networker”. The whole poster is printed in multicolor ink creating a rainbow gradient.

Today’s archive spelunking led me down a rabbit hole trying to learn more about the “Gay Revolution Networker” mentioned in this poster from 1971 (full size). The “Gay is Angry” poster is from the Library of Congress’s Yanker Poster Collection, but the LOC provides no further information on the GRN.

Some research by Langdon Manor Books into a flyer in their catalog suggests that the Gay Revolution Networker was a New York City-based gay collective, which held meetings at locations including the Washington Square Church and the Come!Unity Press, a gay anarchist collective and print shop in New York City that I want to learn more about.

This flyer — itself a fascinating piece, described by Langdon as “a gorgeous enigma” — advertises a meeting for the GRN, but also includes on the opposite side an essay by a person named Velvet, which denounces the Gay Activist’s Alliance as sexist and complacent, and notes “the part about sexism goes for GRN too”.

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Gay is angry