Trailblazing Activism Harry Hay's Role in the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement

Harry Hay, 2009, Icon Abuse Survivor, Activist Author, California Civil Rights, England Gay, Gay Pioneer, LGBT Activist, Los Angeles. 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 (1912-2002). Having been a communist activist in the 1930s-1940s, during the McCarthy era in the late 1940s, Hay was forced out of the Communist ... 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 ... Today's figure in LGTBQ+ history is Harry Hay. Hay founded the Mattachine Society, an underground network for homosexuals. A feature documentary on the life of Harry Hay, founder of America's first successful gay rights organization. Harry Hay's lifelong efforts to bring a sesnse of ... 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 ... "In 1950, Harry Hay founded the Mattachine Society, and thus gave rise to the modern gay movement. Today, lesbian and gay activism is taken for granted. "Harry Hay is a remarkable individual. . . . [Radically Gay] provides wonderful glimpses into Hay's own evolution from Marxist pedant to shamanic faerie elder. Who the hell is Harry Hay?A queer pioneer, Harry is the major architect of the modern gay-rights movement and the genius behind the first ...