{"value"=>"Speaking to the Gay Activists Alliance of New Jersey"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Manford asks whether the members had discussed with the manager of radio station WHLW whose disc-jockeys most of their time making anti-gay remarks, and suggests starting a letter-writing campaign; he begins his discussion by stating that the today's gay people [1976], are all virtually gay negroes. Manford states that American homosexuals are too modest in their demand \"for a piece of the American apple pie\", and that the gay movement has come to a crossroad, and must begin to distinguish between civil rights and government resolutions, between unswerving support and lip service and must not accept crumbs and recognize that \"we barely are even offered the illusion of freedom\" and \" a result of the harsh reality we are in today, it becomes all the more urgent for the movement, in our attempts to reach our community, to discern between a liberationist posture on the one hand and a liberal posture on the other hand.our movement seeks to free people from conventions, to create new values and lifestyles. When we see liberation as a process, it is not something one obtains but it is something that one is involved in. we must never compromise, we must never sell out to the Democratic Party, to the establishment. in our travels towards liberation\"; gay will never be able to perceive what is in their self-interest unless they develop a sense of gay identity; and that too many gays resist identifying with other gays because the brutal realities of their status as pariahs is difficult to confront. A question and answer period follows.</p>"}