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The significance of this project is in its attempt to disrupt the forces of a neo-liberal agenda that has infiltrated the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities over the last two decades, partly due to many positive advancements made by equal rights advocates (i.e., marriage equality), and also because of the overriding discourse that queer persons are just like straight persons save for their sexual attractions.  A queer contingent of the LGBT communities has become more and more dissatisfied and discontented with the direction of the LGBT movement, feeling that their countercultural voices are being increasingly drowned out by heteronormative, assimilationist, capitalistic and corporatizing powers at the expense of diversity and queer social justice. In response, this research project will resurrect the principles of the historical gay liberation movement, re-contextualize them within a contemporary discourse, iterate the findings in theoretical terms and disseminate them via multimedia approaches to further the aims of modern queer liberation movements, including community development and public education.