Third World Gay Revolution.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pyper, Nat, Artist.

Contributor:

Latrónico, Néstor, Other.

Vidal, Juan Carlos, Other.

Library Stack, distributor.

Third World Gay Revolution, Other.

Triple Canopy, Contributor.

Series:

A Queer Year of Love Letters ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graphic design (Typography).

Publishers and publishing.

Sexual minority culture.

Publishing.

Printing.

Genre:

Software

Software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], Library Stack, 2024.

[Place of publication not identified], Nat Pyper, 2024.

Summary:

"THIRD WORLD GAY REVOLUTION (TWGR) was a New York City-based activist collective of Black and Latinx gays and lesbians that formed in the summer of 1970. It was one of several groups that spun off from the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), which formed in the aftermath of the 1969 Stonewall riots, including Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR) and Radicalesbians. Created in response to the racism that they experienced in the predominantly white GLF, TWGR aligned itself with the anti-imperial and decolonial struggles of people fighting for liberation throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In their own words: "third world gays suffer an oppression which is not shared by our white sisters and brothers, one which they could never really FEEL." Shortly after their formation, TWGR published a "Sixteen Point Platform and Program" (its name and format echoing the Black Panther Party's "Ten-Point Program") in the seventh issue of the GLF's radical gay newspaper Come Out!. This manifesto called for the right of self-determination and bodily autonomy for all third world and gay people, the abolition of the bourgeois nuclear family, the end of police brutality and military oppression at home and abroad, and above all, a new society-"a revolutionary socialist society." TWGR also provided coalitional support to other revolutionary groups: they helped lead the gay delegation at the Revolutionary Peoples' Constitutional Convention organized by the Black Panthers and offered print and design services for the Young Lords Party. Although TWGR dissolved in the spring of 1971, their work continued. The poet Néstor Latrónico and artist Juan Carlos Vidal, two of the group's founders and both immigrants from Argentina, would later go on to form the group Latin Gay Revolution and the queer militant magazine Afuera. Vidal died from complications related to AIDS in 1985. This font is based on letterforms created by Vidal that were featured on the back cover of the seventh issue of Come Out!. The letterforms read: "Hermanas y Hermanos Del 3er Mundo Comunidad / Come Out in Third World Lingo / ¡Ver! / ¡Come Out! / ¡Saca El Tiempo! / ¡Seize The Time! / ¡Todo El Poder Pal Pueblo! / ¡All Power to the People!" Gaps in the alphabet were filled by emulating existing forms as needed. This font was commissioned by Triple Canopy. It is the ninth font in A Queer Year of Love Letters."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

Archived and cataloged by Library Stack

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Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access