my arucie In last week s issue of Socialist Action movement might well have come away with the feeling that the total male domination of the gay rights movement in He preocal day Irus have been reflected both in the earlier version of il, ana in lne concerns of the author.
I would like to make it clear that my original article did contain a section on the relationship between the Scientific Humanitarian Committee and the struggles of lesolan women in Germany: but ass cur our without my permission.
In fact, although (as now) the early campaigns for gay rights trough meir exclusive concern with laws outlawing male homosexuality tended merlov avenue participation. and lesbian women therefore concentrated their acres in me weeks movement, the leadersy of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee made big efforts to involve lesbians in its work. Lesbians played a, part in the SHC's publications and campaign waged jointly with women took place in 1910, when the government proposed te extend the anti-gay legislanon to wollen. This proposal was resisted by a very broad alliance of forces including the SHC, the socialist party, and both social democratic and bourgeois womens organisation.
Operating on the view that the move represented not an inequality ... eliminated, but rather an injustice represented the first contact ui lit women's movement to ending the oppression of homosexuality. The campaign was successful in its objectives.
Southall
Socialist Action 26 October 1984