Harry Hay A Guiding Light in the LGBTQ+ Movement

Read 13 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Book by Timmons, Stuart. Quotes · Though ethics are arrived at by the group, they are meaningful only when applied by the individual himself. It is essential that Homosexuals begin to ... Geer was putting it politely. Henry Gerber, a leftist activist like Hay, who also tried to "call a meeting" in Chicago in the 1920s, provides a blunter ... Hay was born in April 1912 to Harry, Sr., a mining engineer and a man determined to make a man of his son, and Margaret, a woman who loved the arts. Harry Hay had a vision, and that vision led to the founding of the first sustained gay rights organization in the United States—the ... Henry “Harry” Hay Jr. was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. He was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society. Harry Hay composed the first manifesto of the American Gay Rights Movement in 1948. "We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games. In the late 1930s, Hay had talked to psychologist Dr. Saul Glass, while taking part in Glass's experiment that sought physiological markers for ... D'Emilio acknowledged the instrumental role Hay played in founding the first American homosexual rights advocacy organization, the Mattachine ... Harry Hay, 2009, Icon Abuse Survivor, Activist Author, California Civil Rights, England Gay, Gay Pioneer, LGBT Activist, Los Angeles.