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1970s Liberation Houses 4
1media/Screen Shot 2023-04-01 at 4.53.57 PM_thumb.png2023-04-01T23:54:33+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Stanley Williams was the shop manager for the Gay Community Services Center Gaywill Funky Shoppe, 1972. While Liberation Houses were an effective grassroots solution to the complex issue of queer homelessness, these types of problems indicated that structural state support would be needed to enhance the organizational apparatus of the program. That being said, Liberation Houses did provide important opportunities for many queer men and women, especially those new to the city. Queer relationships, community, and politics were forged in the housing program. Moreover, the houses strengthened a discourse within the Gay Liberation movement in Los Angeles that stressed economics, housing, and family-building, all of which would become central to the organizational structure of the GCSC as it evolved.plain2023-04-01T23:54:33+00:001971Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49