Sexual Freedom League National Newsletter: March 1971 [Don Jackson's copy]

Palmer, Tom, editor, Virginia Miller, Margo Rila, Don Jackson, Jefferson Fuck Poland, et al

Berkeley: SFL, 1971. 32p., sixteen 8.5x11 inch sheet stapled upper-left corner, mimeographed, light foxing and wear else good, Don Jackson's signature and address in ink with several numbers and notes.

Includes a message from Virginia Miller, president of the League, minutes of the last meeting and letters from members including Jackson.

According to the Online Archive of California, Bancroft: "The Sexual Freedom League was founded in 1963 in New York City. Julian Beck, Allen Ginsberg, and Dr. Leo Koch were among those on the Advisory Committee of the original group, which was active in demonstrations for a wide range of causes."

The original SFL was formed in NYC by Jefferson Poland in 1963 as New York City League for Sexual Freedom. When Poland moved to the Bay Area from NYC in 1966 he founded the SFL in East Bay which was a loose-knit group with few rules, little organization and no fees. After he split several others stepped in to create their own versions of the league including Richard Thorne, Margo Rila and her husband Frank Esposito Rila. By 1971 several SFL chapters had formed around the US including the one Don Jackson was a member of. Jackson, whose copy this is, was a gay activist in Southern California who contributed to The Alpine County Project aka Stonewall Nation. In a letter responding to internal strife over Liberal and Conservative leaders in the SFL Jackson, a Libertarian, offered himself as a Liberal candidate for office. The San Francisco chapter was headed up by Margo St. James at this time.

Cat.No: 266970

Price: $125.00