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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.
Communist and labor activist Harry Hay formed the group with a collection of male friends in Los Angeles to protect and improve the rights of gay men. Branches formed in other cities, and by 1961 the Society had splintered into regional groups.
Mattachine Society, a secret homophile organization founded in Los Angeles in 1950–51 by, among others, onetime communist organizer and gay rights activist Harry Hay, who believed that homosexuals should see themselves as an oppressed minority entitled to equal rights. The name “Mattachine” came.
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Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society, 1948-1953, by Jonathan Ned Katz. A 1974 interview with Harry Hay about founding the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles. Published originally in Jonathan Ned Katz's Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (1976).
Jun 8, 2021 · In 1950, he helped form the Mattachine Society to unify homosexuals. Along with Dale Jennings, Chuck Rowland and Bob Hull, Gernreich and Hay held the first meeting of what would become the...
Oct 25, 2002 · The group Mr. Hay founded -- one that exists in remnants today -- was the Mattachine Society. Its name was taken from a medieval French term for male dancers who performed in public,...
Apr 26, 2024 · October 24, 2002, San Francisco, California, U.S. (aged 90) Founder: Mattachine Society. Radical Faeries. Political Affiliation: Communist Party of the United States of America. Notable Works: “The Homosexuals in America”. Harry Hay (born April 7, 1912, Worthing, Sussex, England—died October 24, 2002, San Francisco, California, U.S.) was ...
