Luckily, a closeted gay man, who was a vice-president of the campus student government council, gave Jim Toy the keys to the Student Activities Building so that he might hold the conference. However, the UM President at the time denied the request, stating that homosexual activity was illegal, that a conference would necessitate the presence of the police and that the conference was not educationally-oriented enough to use university space. Soon after, the GLF requested the use of university space for a statewide conference. While attending his second meeting, Jim responded, “We want justice!”ĭuring the same year, the GLF and the Radical Lesbians, a group that had branched off from the GLF, was formally recognized by the Student Government Council as a student organization. Soon after the founding of the UM-GLF chapter, the Regents of U of M invited a leader and eventual founder of the office, Jim Toy, to speak about what the GLF hoped to achieve.
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Initially, on March 17, 1970, following the creation of the Detroit Gay Liberation Movement a few weeks earlier, both students and members of the larger community came together to initiate the U of M chapter of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), seeking to battle stereotypes of gay people, fighting homophobic prejudice, and invalidating the mental illness model of homosexuality. Through persistent dedication by many LGBTA advocates to the expansion of LGBTA rights and inclusion on the University of Michigan campus, the Office of LGBT Affairs has been transformed over the years to become the office that it is today.