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An oral history of five gay activists who traveled across the US to join the Black Panther's Constitutional Convention and envision a new America. For many GLF people, the Panthers were a complete model for their own politics; both groups wanted revolutionary changes in society to effect equality for all citizens, but in particular the constituents of these two groups: African-Americans and LGBT people.

On August 15, , Huey P. Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, gave a speech in New York City where he outlined the Party’s position on two emerging movements at the time, the women’s liberation movement and the gay liberation movement. On May 25, , Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, igniting a wave of protests for racial justice across America and beyond.

Their mission? Together, they spent six weeks on the road—Diana Ross and Mick Jagger on the radio, freedom and fear in the air. Joel was the radical; Richard, the lover; Giles, the organizer; Jimmy, the enfant terrible; and Doug, the cipher. The FBI was sowing discord among radicals, and it was easy for mistrust to take root. But briefly, in the autumn of , they saw a chance for a revolutionary future, and they struck out for it together.

Their versions vary widely, and reality lives somewhere unlocatable in the blurry overlap. Sometimes, the fragmentation is the story. Sometimes, the pieces are all we have. Joel: Okay, for my part, this is my story. Richard, Jimmy, myself, Giles—who else? Doug and I were the only two Black men in that collective. We were full-fledged Gay Liberation and Black Liberation and everything else people.

Giles: Richard was bar none the best-looking man in Gay Liberation. And Joel was the greatest dance partner I ever had.

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We would get up there in front of everybody and do the dirty bump as if it was propaganda. I was Hans, the German, and Thor, the Swede. I was also working with this underground printing press, printing stuff for the Black Panthers, the Young Lords, etc. And Jimmy owned a van, like a VW caravan, and he started talking about this trip.

But Jimmy recruited us. We were on for the ride and for the adventure. Giles: Jimmy had been involved with the Panthers. Do you know any gay people? Living a revolutionary life, to me, is always questioning, always questioning myself, and questioning other people about what it is they know. It was a way of living. It was just … who we were. There was no thrill in wanting to have a revolution.

Who wants to go through that? Unless you have to. I never felt scared—well, no, the only time I was scared was in Dallas, when we got arrested. Richard: Who drove? I think we alternated. Doug and Joel and I, we were sharing clothes and living that way, very much sharing everything, cooking together, figuring out how to be macrobiotic.