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
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.
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.
identity-politics giving support
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.