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1970s Liberation Houses 2
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-01 at 4.50.44 PM_thumb.png2023-04-01T23:51:02+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911The Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center (GCSC), 1974. As Martin Meeker has argued, throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, gay travel guides and pulp novels encouraged scores of queer men and women to migrate to imagined queer communities throughout the nation, including Los Angeles.16 GCSC founders estimated that “100-300 young gay men and women arrive each month in the city of Los Angeles.” These migrants appeared to be “young people with inadequate financing and few marketable job skills.” Most had either fled or “been rejected by their biological families.”Providing physical and emotional shelter for these migrants was the objective of Los Angeles Gay Liberation Houses, the first of which opened in 1970 before the official founding of the GCSC.plain2023-04-01T23:51:02+00:001974Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49