Gay Liberation Front and the Biltmore Invasion

Carolyn Weathers will be sharing stories from her many years of queer activism. Weathers was one of the Gay Liberation Front leaders who orchestrated the Biltmore Invasion, disrupting the APA conference's screening of a documentary depicting the use of electroshock as a "cure" for homosexuality; this direct action led to the declassification of homosexuality as a mental illness. She was also one of the first out lesbians to appear on television in 1970 on the Regis Philbin show. Weathers authored three books, co-founded Clothespin Fever Press to publish works by more lesbian and sapphic writers, worked as a librarian, established her own archive of self-donated materials at the ONE Archives, and participated in numerous speaking engagements and exhibits.