Harry Hay
Harry Hay
Henry "Harry" Hay, Jr.was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, labor advocate, and Native American civil rights campaigner. He was a 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth7 April 1912
CountryUnited States of America
years world kind
Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.
gay giving may
Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free.
gay body movement
I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.
pride gay people
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, /So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, /We bring a gift to celebrate each other, /’Tis a gift to be gay! / Feel the pride of it!
dream people together
I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.
running movement
The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
littles facade sissy
Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.
secret golden wonderful
I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good.
kids law long
A law is a law. It can be voted in. It can be voted out. It can be voted in and stay in as long as you have the majority. And where do you have the majority? You kid yourself.
gay emphasis consumerism
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
identity-politics giving support
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.