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'''Henry Hay''', commonly known as '''Harry Hay''', is the widely acknowledged founder and and progenitor of the  activist [[homosexual agenda]] in the United States.    Hay joined the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) in 1934. <ref>Ibid.</ref>

'''Harry Hay''' is the widely acknowledged founder and and progenitor of the  activist [[homosexual agenda]] in the United States.    Hay joined the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) in 1934. <ref>Ibid.</ref>

From 1936 to 1938 he worked on the End Poverty in California campaign, the Hollywood Writers’ Mobilization, the [[American League Against War and Fascism]], the Mobilization for Democracy, the Workers’ Alliance of America and Labor’s Non-Partisan League. <ref>[http://www.workers.org/2005/us/lgbtseries-0428/ Harry Hay heard ‘siren song of revolution’], Leslie Feinberg, ''Workers World'', Apr 20, 2005. </ref>

Born '''Henry Hay''', from 1936 to 1938 he worked on the End Poverty in California campaign, the Hollywood Writers’ Mobilization, the [[American League Against War and Fascism]], the Mobilization for Democracy, the Workers’ Alliance of America and Labor’s Non-Partisan League. <ref>[http://www.workers.org/2005/us/lgbtseries-0428/ Harry Hay heard ‘siren song of revolution’], Leslie Feinberg, ''Workers World'', Apr 20, 2005. </ref>

The original founders of the Mat­tachine Foundation were all either former CPUSA members or fellow travelers.  The first step Hay took in organizing the Mattachine Foundation was to recommend to the CPUSA that he be expelled in 1951 after eighteen years as a member. Rather than do that in light of his years of service to the party and work as a teacher at the California Labor School, <ref>[http://www.sojournertruth.net/ipp.html#i In Partial Payment Class Struggle, Sexuality and Gay Liberation (1978)], by A. Rausch. Retrieved from ''Urgent Tasks: [[Leftist|Journal of the Revolutionary Left]]'', Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive , 10 May 2007. </ref> they released him as “a security risk but a life-long friend of the people.”  The early leadership of the Foundation shaped the organization to reflect the cell structure of the Communist Party, in which "secrecy, hierarchical structures, and centralized leadership predominated." <ref>John D'Emilio, ''Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), quoted in Martin Meeker, Behind the Mask of Respectability, ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', (2001) 78-116. </ref>

The original founders of the Mat­tachine Foundation were all either former CPUSA members or fellow travelers.  The first step Hay took in organizing the Mattachine Foundation was to recommend to the CPUSA that he be expelled in 1951 after eighteen years as a member. Rather than do that in light of his years of service to the party and work as a teacher at the California Labor School, <ref>[http://www.sojournertruth.net/ipp.html#i In Partial Payment Class Struggle, Sexuality and Gay Liberation (1978)], by A. Rausch. Retrieved from ''Urgent Tasks: [[Leftist|Journal of the Revolutionary Left]]'', Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive , 10 May 2007. </ref> they released him as “a security risk but a life-long friend of the people.”  The early leadership of the Foundation shaped the organization to reflect the cell structure of the Communist Party, in which "secrecy, hierarchical structures, and centralized leadership predominated." <ref>John D'Emilio, ''Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), quoted in Martin Meeker, Behind the Mask of Respectability, ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', (2001) 78-116. </ref>