 The first such organization was the 'militant' Committee for Homosexual Freedom or CHF, with Leo Laurence, Gale Whittington, Mother Boats and others, later to be renamed the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in October 1969, the third GLF in the country (after New York City and Berkeley).The name was used to show solidarity with the Vietnamese National Liberation Front.By the next year, there were over 350 GLF organizations around the country.