ABSTRACT
We believed everything would change, even ourselves. Days and nights were an exhilarating turmoil of ideas, actions and experiments, about politics, sex and our whole lives. For a few years in the early seventies, the Gay Liberation Front provided the focus for a new experience of sexual politics. This experience seems today to be a glorious memory, or sometimes a mad nightmare, but one that is now difficult to make real in our very changed climate. Many of the ideas remain valid. Some have been partially fulfilled, though in ways very different from those we imagined. Others have been dashed or discarded in the wake of ‘Victorian values’ and AIDS in the mid-eighties. But we should not lose sight of the importance of that moment or take for granted the changes that are so recent.
