CROSSROADS INCORPORATED: A Step Toward Permanence Background. When gay liberation first began in Madison in 1969 as the Madison Alliance for Homosexual Equality, the group met weekly in St. Francis House and for discussions and programs. related to issues of s sexuality. and This was the extent of its internal work. Externally, it conducted panels and symposiums, breaking important ground in the community. Áد¾¼Ñ¯×æamewestablishedwasxaиwimportan⭑WAWW These activities had the result of drawing gay activists toward the larger movement for social change on the UW campus. Internally, The leading discussions of sexuality and society led a large segment of MAHE to connect its interests with the intersts of other groups which Allied were struggling to combat politicalxrepression various forms of military, racial, domination-- pokitisaky educational, and economic as well as sexual. Externally, the visible organization and activism of MAHE made other axit agiixix* groups take notice and reach out to it for help in projects of common interest. Itwasnaturalyxthenуxthat MAHE DAY The change in name from Madison Alliance for Homosexual in late 1970 Equality to Madison Gay Liberation Front singai signa±kedxÉX=XÚÑ»±W signaled was the sign of a major shift, both internal and externally ave hift, Internally it indicated that that goal was not merely for equal rights for homosexualsi within the status quo, but a deep repudiation an open of oppressive sex roles and the development of a free and gentle consciousness which could permit the growth of human relationships The fight was not merely against discrunt on a basis of love than rather than power. Externally, Gay Liberation indicated that according to its analysis of sexuality and society such goals could only be realized in the context of radical social change; that sexual domination could not be dissolved so long as Sepss, ---