When It Wasn't "LGBT Rights," but Gay Liberation

 "Our struggle is not one merely for tolerance but for full acceptance as human beings. We are not out to preserve the subculture of the gay world into which straight society forces us when it fails to turn us into docile heterosexuals. Our goal is not to preserve any 'homosexual way of life.' The very concept of 'homosexual' as a distinct variety of human being is a myth deliberately fostered by heterosexual society to buttress its rigid exclusive heterosexual norms. In reality there are only people whose sexual drives naturally lead them to engage in various kinds of sexual acts, including homosexual acts 

"Our struggle is ultimately for a society in which there will no longer be 'homosexuals' and 'heterosexuals' but simply human beings expressing their natural sexual inclinations. Our struggle is for a society that will ensure and protect the free development and expression of sexuality. Our struggle is for a society that not only tolerates homosexuality but provides for a positive institutional integration of homosexuality. Such a society will not be a heterosexual society."

-- David Thorstad, "Gay Liberation and Class Struggle," June 18, 1972, reprinted in _Gay Liberation and Socialism: documents from the discussions on gay Liberation inside the Socialist Workers Party (1970-1973)_, selected and with an introduction by David Thorstad, 1976