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Harry Hay, a co-founder of the Radical Faerie movement, in 1996. Hay was a veteran of gay rights activism, having been a longstanding activist in the Communist Party USA prior to becoming a founding member of the Mattachine Society in 1950.
Mar 1, 2024 · “The heart circle was and still is the centerpiece,” filmmaker Eric Slade, director of the documentary Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay, told me.Slade explained how faeries sat in a ...
Sep 1, 2010 · The detailed organizing of the initial Radical Fairy conference came out of the first Radical Fairy Sanctuary on La Cresta Court in Hollywood, where an intergenerational commune consisting of four gay men lived—Harry Hay and John Burnside, both in their sixties; Michael Fleming, nineteen; and me, who was then 41.
The Life of Harry Hay. 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 unity, community, and joyous spirituality to gays in the US make for remarkable viewing. Los Angeles Times. "A captivating account of the birth and early ...
Harry Hay Timeline by Will Roscoe and Joey Cain → Harry Hay: Founding the Mattachine Society: "A call to me . . . more important than life" The man who conceived and was a principal figure in the founding of the first Maltachine Society, Henry Hay, here for the first time details the early history of that homosexual emancipation organization.
Sep 30, 2021 · Harry Hay was intrigued. He had already joined with some fellow radicals, Mitch Walker and Don Kilhefner, to try to formulate a gay social tribe with a spiritual aspect. They found inspiration at a workshop led by Betty Berzon entitled “New Breakthroughs in the Nature of How We Perceive Gay Consciousness.”
