One of the great, unsung, barely remembered heroes of gay liberation is the writer, editor and activist Allen Young.
When I was a college student in the seventies, one of my first introductions to gay liberation was through reading a copy of an anthology he co-edited with Karla Jay. I never realized that in just a few years, they'd be writing regularly for the Philadelphia Gay News.
Allen was (and to the best of my knowledge, remains) a brave, brave man. He had the guts to speak out about the hypocrisies ambivalent in the gay political movement, and for that he paid a very heavy price: of ostracization, of self exile in central New England. Eventually he wrote a polemic, book length, entitled Gays Under the Cuban Revolution, which exposed at length, and in detail, the homophobia and persecution of lesbians and gay men under the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. Castro is no liberationist god: what his regime has done to people living with HIV/AIDS in Cuba is horrific.
Gays Under the Cuban Revolution remains a vital and historical piece of work explaining a great deal of the dichotomies rumbling from within the gay movement of the seventies and the eighties.