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Connections to the Gay Liberation Movement Huey Newton expressed his support for the Women's Liberation Movement and the Gay Liberation Movement in a 1970 letter published in the newspaper The Black Panther titled "A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters About the Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements". Written one year after the Stonewall Riots, Newton acknowledged women and homosexuals as oppressed groups and urged the Black Panthers to "unite with them in a revolutionary fashion". The Black Panther Party and the Gay Liberation Movement shared common ground in their fight against police brutality.

Connections to the Gay Liberation Movement
Huey Newton expressed his support for the Women's Liberation Movement and the Gay Liberation Movement in a 1970 letter published in the newspaper The Black Panther titled "A Letter from Huey to the Revolutionary Brothers and Sisters About the Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements".[182] Written one year after the Stonewall Riots, Newton acknowledged women and homosexuals as oppressed groups and urged the Black Panthers to "unite with them in a revolutionary fashion".[183] He discouraged the normalized misuse of homosexual identities as derogatory and defamatory language, “we should not attach names normally designed for homosexuals to men who are enemies of the people”.[182] Following the Stonewall riots, Activist Jean Genet entered the United States to advocate for imprisoned members of the Party and soon after began offering political education classes on homophobia to Party members".[182] Among varying opinions about homosexuality, Newton highlighted homosexuality as a perceived threat to manhood as a result of “the long conditioning process that builds insecurity in the American male” and that “we should be willing to discuss the [perceived threat].[183]

The Black Panther Party and the Gay Liberation Movement shared common ground in their fight against police brutality. [184] Gay liberationists modeled Panther approaches to dealing with police violence, through armed self-defense and electoral politics. [184]

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[182]: Porter, Ronald K. (2012). "A Rainbow in Black: The Gay Politics of the Black Panther Party". Counterpoints. 367: 364–375. JSTOR 42981419. Archived from the original on June 4, 2020. Retrieved January 27, 2021 – via JSTOR.

[183]: Newton, Huey P. (2002). The New Huey P. Newton Reader. Hilliard, David,, Weise, Donald,, Brown, Elaine, 1943-. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-60980-900-3. OCLC 1086404074. Archived from the original on February 15, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2021.

[184]: Leighton, Jared (2019). "'All of Us Are Unapprehended Felons': Gay Liberation, the Black Panther Party, and Intercommunal Efforts Against Police Brutality in the Bay Area". Journal of Social History. 52 (3): 860–85. doi:10.1093/jsh/shx119 – via EBSCO.