May 10, 1969: 55 years ago, May 10 1969, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed [...]
55 years ago, May 10 1969, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed the Safeway at 30th and Mission in San Francisco in solidarity with the United Farm Workers’ Delano Grape Strike. Safeway had refused to stop selling grapes picked by strikebreakers
The CHF had been founded in April (2 months before the Stonewall Riots) by gay activists in San Francisco who had become frustrated with the “timid, uptight, conservative” single-issue gay rights groups that existed at the time, such as the Society for Individual Rights
