Honoring the Pioneering Spirit of Harry Hay

Hay should be remembered as a political radical who stood up and fought for LGBT+ rights. At a time when homosexuality was seen as an illness, ... Harry Hay, an American gay rights activist, co-founded one of the first gay rights groups in the United States, known as the Mattachine Society. Harry was a vocal and courageous supporter of NAMBLA and intergenerational sexual relationships, though since his death many of the assimilationists in the gay ... Gay spiritual writer Toby Johnson quotes Will Roscoe about Harry Hay founder of the modern gay movement. Activist Harry Hay ... LOS ANGELES -- Harry Hay, 90, a founder of the gay movement and a member of the Communist Party, which banned homosexuals, ... Harry Hay: The Founder of Us All. rainbowguy It was some time during the 1930s, Harry Hay remembered, when he turned to his then lover Will Geer to share an ... Harry Hay, who died Thursday of lung cancer at 90, earned an unusual distinction as a founder of the gay liberation movement and a member of ... The Harry Hays Papers are available in the San Francisco Public Library History Center. https://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=0200002501 ... Boston: Alyson Publications, 1990. xvii, 317p. + 16p. photos, first edition, previous owner's bookplate fep else a very good first edition in buckram cloth ... Anecdotes by Hay and his contemporaries greatly enrich this account of his film career; his numerous gay affairs, notably with fashion designer Rudi Gernreich ...