Harry Hay
Harry Hay
Henry "Harry" Hay, Jr.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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth7 April 1912
CountryUnited States of America
people safe walking-alone
I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."
dream people together
I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.
pride gay people
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!
identity-politics giving support
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
gay emphasis consumerism
I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism.
mean proud moments
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.
kids law long
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.
mean gay difficult-situations
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.
secret golden wonderful
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.
brother father son
I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.
littles facade sissy
Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.
girl boys boyish
I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.
thinking may way
Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.
fashion years names
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.