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Harry Hay Biography

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. 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.

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I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.

Condemn, Consumerism, Emphasis, Gay, National, Press

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

Discover, Fashion, Gernreich, Internationally, Names, Years

The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost" always means not quite.

Good, Mean, Moment, Moments, Proud, Saying

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.

Body, Bone, Gay, Movement, Thing

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.

Golden, Secret, Thought, Time, Warm, Wonderful

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.

Kids, Law, Long, Majority, Voted

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!

Gay, Given, Long, Pride

The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail.

California, Country, Entrapping, Hollywood, Practice, Vicious

Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.

Facade, Let, Littles, Show, Sissy, Terrified

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.

Enjoy, Free, Gay, Give, Giving, May

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

Assimilationist, Ground, Movement, Running

Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love - which is the granting to any other and all others that total space wherein each may grow and soar to his own freely-selected, full potential - reaching out to one another subject-to-SUBJECT, becomes for the first time in history the true working model of a Sharing Consensus!

Circle, Circles, History, Space, Vision

Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been chasing ostracism by that point for probably 300 years. You just knew that you should have dropped into your black hole.

Black, Chasing, Difficult Situations, Gay, Live, Mean

I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.

Boyish, Boys, Girl, Girlish