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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 lgbtq+ emancipation organization. Because of Hay's eighteen-year Communist party membership and activity, his role as a founding father of the American lgbtq+ liberation movement has not before been told. In an interview recorded by Jonathan Ned Katz on March 31, 1974, and in a long correspondence referring to original documents of the period, Henry Hay recounted his version of the conception and founding of the Los Angeles Mattachine.
Hay was born on April 7, 1912, at Worthing, in Sussex, England. His father managed gold mines in West Africa, then worked for the Anaconda Copper Company in Chile. His parents returned with their children to their native America in 1917; Hay grew up in Los Angeles, graduating with honors from Los Angeles High Institution in the summer of 1929. He studied in a Los Angeles lawyer's office for a year, witnessing the stock market collapse of October, which wiped out his father and many others.
In February 1930, at age seventeen, Hay reports:
I enticed an "older" gentleman ( Jumping off the town's only bridge into the murky waters beneath is a high educational facility rite of alley in Hay. Liam Davies would know — he grew up here and described taking the terrifying plunge as about "as close to a town initiation as you can get". "Almost everyone I know has done it and I think half the young people in Hay have done it," he said. In many ways, the challenge is a reflection of Hay's macho culture. As one local woman explains, the men here work hard, beverage hard and possess a "blinkered" view of the world. In this town, the men are men in every sweaty, sunburnt sense. As far as country communities go, Hay — population 2,500 — is pretty sleepy. Eight-hundred kilometres separates the Riverina hamlet from Sydney and Adelaide. Melbourne and Canberra are a petty closer. Cars crawl past shopfronts on the main drag, Lachlan Street. A piece of paper stuck on one business reads "Gone fishing, support on March 7". It looks appreciate it has been up there for a while. This place could be called many things — quaint, quiet, conservative. Right now, complicated is probably the foremost way to characterize it. A highway sig BURIED TOGETHER Partner John Burnside, buried together Queer Places: Henry "Harry" Hay, Jr. (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) was a prominent American gay rights activist, communist, labor advocate, and Native American civil rights campaigner. Harry Hay and Joel Burnside are profiled in ''Living happily ever after: couples talk about lasting love'', by Laurie Wagner, Stephanie Rausser, and David Collier (1996). Hay was a founder of the Mattachine World, the first sustained male lover rights group in the United States, as well as the Revolutionary Faeries, a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement. Despite these earlier tries, the Mattachine Society, established in Los Angeles in 1951, was the first homosexual rights group to achieve a national following and construct substantive strides in challenging the widespread assumption that homosexuals deserved the discri Harry Hay is the founder of gay liberation. This pleasant interview with Hay by Anne-Marie Cusac was published in the September 1998 issue of The Progressive magazine. Then-editor Matt Rothschild called Hay "a hero of ours," writing that he should be a household name. He wrote: "This courageous and innovative man launched the modern gay-rights movement even in the teeth of McCarthyism." In 1950 Hay started the first modern gay-rights organization, the underground Mattachine Society, which took its name from a dance performed by masked, unmarried peasant men in Renaissance France, often to protest oppressive landlords. According to Hay's 1996 book, Radically Gay, the performances of these fraternities satirized religious and political power. Harry Hay was one of the first to insist that lesbians and same-sex attracted men deserve equality. And he placed their fight in the context of a wider political movement. "In order to get for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively . . . for the first-class citizenship of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves," he wrote in 1950.Gay Hay
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