Harry Hay
Henry Hay commonly known as Harry Hayis the widely acknowledge founder and and progenitor of the activist homosexual agenda in the United States. Hay has been likened to Thomas Jefferson, Emma Goldman, and Rosa Parks among liberal advocates of gay rights. Hay joined the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) in 1934. [1]
The original founders of the Mattachine Society were all either former CPUSA members or fellow travellers. The first step Hay took in organizing the Mattachine Society 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, [2] they released him as “a security risk but a life-long friend of the people.” Hay and his comrades took the first public action in circulating the USSR and the East European Communist parties sponsored anti-war Stockholm Stockholm Peace petition effort against the Korean War [3] at a gay beach in Los Angeles; some of the contacts they gained in this way were later organized into their first study and discussion groups. The first months produced hundreds of members.
Hay was a regular speaker at NAMBLA Conferences and NAMBLA continiues to carry a special tribute to Hay on its homepage along with his published material. In 1983 Hay told a NAMBLA conference in New York,
| “ | Because if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what thirteen-, fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world. [4] | ” |
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References
- ↑ The Boston Phoenix, The real Harry Hay, Michael Bronski, October 31 - November 7, 2002.
- ↑ In Partial Payment Class Struggle, Sexuality and Gay Liberation (1978), by A. Rausch. Retrieved from Urgent Tasks: Journal of the Revolutionary Left, Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive , 10 May 2007.
- ↑ New Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations: Background and Analysis, Milton Leitenberg, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
- ↑ The American Spectator Special Report, When Nancy Met Harry, Jeffrey Lord, 10/5/2006.