Laurence then co-founded a militant group the Committee for Homosexual Freedom with Gale Whittington, Mother Boats, Morris Kight and others. Whittington had been fired from States Steamship Company for being openly gay, after a photo of him by Mother Boats appeared in the "Berkley Barb", next to the headline "HOMOS, DON'T HIDE IT!", the revolutionary article by Leo Laurence. The same month Carl Wittman, a member of CHF began writing "", which would later be described as "the bible of Gay Liberation". It was first published in the "San Francisco Free Press" and distributed nationwide, all the way to New York City, as was the "Berkeley Barb" with Laurence's stories on CHF's gay guerrilla militant initiatives and Mother Boats' photographs.