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He served as the elder philosopher for a movement that spread internationally.

Henry Harry Hay Jr : He started the Mattachine Society in and launched the Radical Faerie movement in Behind both efforts, he hoped to recover and affirm the nature of homosexuals as "separate people" with a consciousness that distinguished them from heterosexuals even

Where have we been in history? Drawing on original papers, ephemera, videos and personal items archived in the Harry Hay Papers, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library, the epic story of this compelling and complex civil rights leader is brought to life.

What is our purpose? Harry Hay, American gay rights activist who believed that homosexuals should see themselves as an oppressed minority entitled to equal rights.

He based these thoughts on the historical, anthropological studies of Native American and other two-spirited people who lived trans-gendered roles integrated into tribal life. I say what we do in bed is the only place where we are the same.

He rallied for several years and the couple remained in San Francisco under cared of a circle of friends. He died six months after turning ninety, on October 24, Henry Hay Jr. (April 7, – October 24, ) was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate.

Thirteen of these took place during the next nine years. Like many gay men of his time, Harry married. Even in jeans and a work shirt, he was never seen without pearls, insisting that he "never again wanted to be mistaken for a hetero. Born on the same day the Titanic sank, Harry often said, "when one queen goes down another comes up.

Hay has been described as "the Founder of the Modern Gay Movement" [3] and "the father of gay liberation. He cofounded 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.

For some years he and Burnside lived in a Pueblo reservation in New Mexico, where the couple built and sold kaleidoscopes. Harry was fascinated with the questions of why gays exist and researched extensively to understand: Who are we? The Society formed discussion groups and fought for basic rights.

He acted on his convictions and in large measure prompted the dramatic changes in the status of homosexuals that took place in the U.S. in the second half of the 20th century. He sought through faerie gatherings to encourage the concepts of "gay consciousness" and "subject-subject consciousness," based on the belief that, unlike heterosexuality, homosexual relationships had a deep potential due to the inherent similarity of same-sex partners.

Their spin-off organization, ONE Incorporated, published a national gay magazine throughout the s. Using a process based on the Hopi circle and healing ritual, these workshops sought to integrate gay sexuality and hay intimacy with spirituality. Hay is widely credited with applying the term "minority" to homosexuals--though many resisted that concept in In its first years, Hay viewed the Mattachine movement as gay "sacred brotherhood" and the dedication of the society's original members was described as "evangelical.

Hay's studies suggested that gay nature was neither male nor female; he adhered to the theory that GLBT people form a third sex and serve as a bridge between the masculine and the feminine. He and his wife, Anita Platky, adopted two daughters: Hannah born in and Kate in The couple divorced in He wrote his original "call to action" inand two years hay, he joined with Rudi Gernreich, Chuck Rowland, and a few others to found the Mattachine Society.

Harry Gay is best known as the founder of the U. He started the Mattachine Society in and launched the Radical Faerie movement in Behind both efforts, he hoped to recover and affirm the nature of homosexuals as "separate people" with a consciousness that distinguished them from heterosexuals even more than their sexuality.