[5][7] The focus on political advocacy eventually won out, and in mid-1970 the group merged with the local branch of the Gay Liberation Front, which had been founded earlier that year.
[2] On July 30, 1971, the group organized a protest of roughly 170 people at Bridgeport City Hall, in response to police refusal to help a Kalos Society member after they were assaulted.
[3] 1971 also saw member Ken Bland suspended from his job at the American School for the Deaf after he represented the Kalos Society on a local television program.
The American Civil Liberties Union later took up Bland's case,[2] and in 1972, the group backed a state-level bill that would outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation.
[3] The publication was the state's first LGBT newspaper,[1] and covered topics such as Kalos Society demonstrations, news on local elections, and information about STIs and sex education.