East Bay Gay weathered a storm in the summer of 1974 when, according to a statement released by a splinter group, the “users” of the group felt that its “directorship” was no longer “responsive to the needs of the gay community.”
Notably, the statement was first published in the Berkeley Free Clinic Newsletter — a fact that suggests how the Free Clinic may have offered a kind of model for community-based provision of free services.
The Berkeley Barb covered this internal split in this short article, and also published a reply from East Bay Gay director Richard Boxer in a subsequent issue.
