The founding members,7 men and one woman, of the Gay Activists Alliance were dissatisfied members of the Gay Liberation Front. The group members wanted to form a "single issue, politically neutral , whose goal would be to "secure basic human rights, dignity and freedom for all gay people." The political neutrality and single-themedness stood in contrast to the Gay Liberation Front, which allied itself with the radical Black Panther Party, criticized the Vietnam War and had a hard left-wing, anti-capitalistic stance. GAA was most active from 1970 to 1974.