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.-_ 27 August 71 - .. .. - - .. . . - . SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT - - . CALENDAR OF TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED ACTIVITIES e .- , . . Asterisked items are either reported for the first time, or contain additions or changes to previously reported activities. Several hundred activists of various May gay' Collectives met a t T h e gathering of the groups had been announced Atlanta in mid-August. many weeks prior, and the announced purpose of the Atlanta session was to formulate and co-ordinate plans for antiwar demonstrations in the fall. - * . This conference,participated i n by extremely radical and unprc- dictable Activists, was perhaps m o r e chaotic than any prGceding s e s s i o n of 'similar organ'izations.in recent histury. ence, a women's collective fattionalized ovcr a very basic issue. faction maintained a philosophy of government r e f o r m , and the other proposed abandoning this strategy and held that changes should occur through revolutions and that preparations for revolution should be organ- ized now in the form of a people's army. In tlic early days of the confer- One Before any fall'plans could be discussed, the May Day Conference was taken over by male and female homosexuals. w e r e devoted to debates on sexism and how best to bring to. the surface the "gayness in all of us." The thrust of the homosexual participants (estimated bejween one third and one half of those attending) w e r e such argunrenb a s , "you c k l t fight imperialism until sexism has been con- qucred, i m p r i a f i s t . The argument goes that "gayness is non-competitive and lovini while capitalism is competitive and hateful. I' The remaining sessions and thc philosophy that gayness is anti-captialis t and anti- As 211 other tadical conferences break into workshops and study - .'c* -. * groups, the May Day assemblage also adopted this course. The categor- ies, however, instead of being w a r oriented o r welfare oriented, divided into such categories as "gay women, "gay men, I' "straight women, " and "straight men." An example of the purpose of the workshop entitlcd &U3rLkC;;,\ 2 5 /w,* '71 D-p. f i z c , 5 /c/n+ 7 e-