Celebrating the Visionary Leadership of Harry Hay LGBTQ+ Advocate Extraordinaire

The collection documents the personal and professional interests of Harry Hay and his partner John Burnside. Anecdotes by Hay and his contemporaries greatly enrich this account of his film career; his numerous gay affairs, notably with fashion designer Rudi Gernreich ... Queer liberation's Communist Party roots. Before Stonewall, there was Harry Hay, who brought communist theory and practice to the fight for gay ... Henry 'Harry' Hay -- gay rights pioneer / He started Mattachine Society ... Henry "Harry" Hay, considered by many to be the founder of the modern ... Boston: Alyson Publications, 1990. Hardcover. xvii, 317p. + 16p. photos, signed by both Stuart Timmons and Harry Hay, very good first edition, ... Hay became active in the gay cruising and social scenes of both LA and San Francisco, had numerous affairs with men, came out as gay to his friends, and ... At an intimate campout in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, 1994, Harry Hay expounds Harry Hay and others at the national march for Lesbian and ... Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society. Marching in the 1986 Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade, Harry Hay wore a vest emblazoned with two messages. In 1950, Harry Hay founded the Mattachine Society, an underground network for homosexuals. It was the first American gay organization. The Harry Hays Papers are available in the San Francisco Public Library History Center. https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=0200002501 ...