Prue: Created page with "I will gradually add to this, as there is a lot to cover. Nettie participated in many campaign groups during her life, maintained a vast social life with activists from every period and group she moved through - be they MAP activists, GLF activists, or early trans rights campaigners - so it will take some time to document her life in any detail. I'll also list her writings as best I can at some point, the most well-known being her chapter "The Small Matter of Children"..."

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Created page with "I will gradually add to this, as there is a lot to cover. Nettie participated in many campaign groups during her life, maintained a vast social life with activists from every period and group she moved through - be they MAP activists, GLF activists, or early trans rights campaigners - so it will take some time to document her life in any detail. I'll also list her writings as best I can at some point, the most well-known being her chapter "The Small Matter of Children"..."

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I will gradually add to this, as there is a lot to cover. Nettie participated in many campaign groups during her life, maintained a vast social life with activists from every period and group she moved through - be they MAP activists, GLF activists, or early trans rights campaigners - so it will take some time to document her life in any detail.

I'll also list her writings as best I can at some point, the most well-known being her chapter "The Small Matter of Children" in Avedon Carol's "The Challenge to Reclaim Feminism" book [which also features an incredible chapter by [[Gayle Rubin]] ]... But Nettie also apparently wrote for "Red Rag," and wrote multiple articles about defending pornography from censorship and criminalization in the 90s. So, there's a fair bit to get to, but I'll get there!

If anyone reading this hasn't seen it, I highly recommend reading John Chesterman's 1970 Gay Liberation demands, which you can find videos of Nettie reading out at Pride events - since for her they summed up what she believed in... I found a pamphlet called "Rainbow Planet" written by the Gay Liberation Front for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, which reproduces Chesterman's demands and then asks "How far do ''you'' think we've got? We judge that worldwide John [the author] would be both proud and despairing."

Scroll to the bottom here for a lovely poster which describes the kind of society that the British GLF, and by extension Nettie, wanted to see: https://gayliberationfrontuk.com/demands/

--[[User:Prue|Prue]] ([[User talk:Prue|talk]]) 18:13, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

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