This chapter explores the ambivalent relationship between gay liberation and ‘1968’. First, the chapter delves into the sexual politics of the West German student movement, before analysing the subsequent links between homosexual politics, second-wave feminism, and the 1970s alternative left. This alternative left provided not just ideological influences but also a space for gay liberation. The chapter therefore explores not just the political connections but also the textual and spatial context of this alternative left. Gay activists were often less preoccupied by the Öffentlichkeit, the wider public sphere, than by the left-alternative Gegenöffentlichkeit, the counter-public, with its sprawling network of independently produced papers and zines, alongside its alternative spaces: bars, bookshops, housing, and theatre collectives. After exploring the hitherto little acknowledged queer participation in this counter-public, the chapter examines the efforts of gay activists to gain recognition from sought-after leftist partners, which culminated in gays characterizing themselves as victims of fascism.