Harry Hay The Visionary Behind the Mattachine Society

Harry Hay (1912-2002) is best known as the founder of the U.S. gay movement but is increasingly known as a pioneer of gay spirituality. Activist Harry Hay is recognized as one of the principal founders of the gay liberation movement in the United States. An original member of both the Mattachine ... Harry Hay spent the latter years of his life exploring the “TwoSpirit” people of Native American societies. He died of lung cancer on October 24, 2002 at the ... Harry Hay is known as the 'the Father of Gay Liberation'. A radical intellectual, he founded the Mattachine Society—one of the most influential gay associations ... Harry Hay, who six decades ago founded Mattachine Society, secret organization that became catalyst for American gay rights movement, ... Queer liberation's Communist Party roots. Before Stonewall, there was Harry Hay, who brought communist theory and practice to the fight for gay ... Boston: Alyson Publications, 1990. xvii, 317p. + 16p. photos, first edition, previous owner's bookplate fep else a very good first edition in buckram cloth ... Harry Hay came of age as a gay man when the notion of a gay identity barely existed; as Hay himself would often say, gay people didn't even have ... Harry Hay has been collecting and growing an amazing variety of bulbs and other plants on a number of acres just south of London right next to ... D'Emilio acknowledged the instrumental role Hay played in founding the first American homosexual rights advocacy organization, the Mattachine ...