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Harry Hay. Henry " Harry " Hay Jr. (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. He was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement.
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- October 24, 2002 (aged 90), San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Henry Hay Jr., April 7, 1912, Worthing, Sussex, England
Apr 26, 2024 · Harry Hay (born April 7, 1912, Worthing, Sussex, England—died October 24, 2002, San Francisco, California, U.S.) was an American gay rights activist who believed that homosexuals should see themselves as an oppressed minority entitled to equal rights.
Jun 8, 2021 · Harry Hay was a homosexual, Socialist, writer, spiritualist and activist who cofounded the Mattachine Society, the origin of the American gay rights movement. He viewed homosexuals as an oppressed minority and advocated for their unification, education and equality.
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Oct 25, 2002 · Harry Hay, who founded a secret organization six decades ago that proved to be the catalyst for the American gay rights movement, died early Thursday morning at his home in San Francisco. He...
Aug 9, 2016 · Harry Hay was a pioneer of gay rights and a Communist Party member in the 1950s. He started the Mattachine Society, the first modern gay-rights organization, and fought for equality and social justice.
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How did Harry Hay, the founder of the Mattachine Society and a queer activist, develop his vision of same-sex loving people and relationships during his 'lost decade'? This article explores his encounters with Native American cultures, Marxist theory, and Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State.
The first sustained gay rights group in the U.S.—the Mattachine Society—sprang directly from the mind of Harry Hay in 1950. Harry was the gay rights pioneer who paved the way for everything that came after. So if this fourth season of Making Gay History is an exploration of beginnings, Harry Hay was there at the inception of the movement in ...
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