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Gayhay: Hay Style Meets Performance! In the s he worked for and supported Native American struggles and helped to define and bring together the Gay men's spirit group called the Radical Faeries. Hay continued theorizing and organizing his People and supporting social justice for all people right up to his death in Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library, the epic story of this compelling and complex civil rights leader is brought to life.

The man who had that exceptional vision was Harry Hay. An actor, Communist labor organizer, musicologist, gay theoretician and political activist, Harry Hay left a lasting mark that continues well into the 21st century. Gay Hay (born ) [1] is a New Zealand children's book author, based in Pukerua Bay, [2] best known for gay books Fantail's Quilt () and Watch Out, Snail!

Yet in that same year, one man had the visionary idea that homosexuals were a "cultural minority" that could be organized to create a community and fight for their human rights. This section focuses on the germination of the idea to the founding of the Mattachine Society, it's goals and activism to the removal of Harry and the other founders:.

Along the way we look at what were the significant events in his life that formed and enabled him to do what no one else had done before. The exhibition investigates their life and activism together, culminating in their co-founding of the Radical Faeries and ending with Hay's death in Harry acted on both the stage and in film starting in On the back of this photo he wrote, "My first PR still, for an actor's portfolio, taken by a fine lesbian photographer, Hazel Harvey, in the Spring of This was the wrong aspect to reveal in an industry poised to go mad over the likes of Clark Gable and the 'Coop'.

Throughout the s he conducted research into areas of anthropology, science, history and mythology for evidence of what he termed "my people," the gay community. His longings and desires are explored from his earliest sexual contacts and crushes to his early s meeting with inventor, John Burnside, who became Hay's "loving companion" and life partner for the last 40 years of his life.

The Life of Harry

InHay attended a beer bust in support of progressive Democratic presidential contender Henry Wallace where he talked with a few other gay men about the possibilities of creating an organization of homosexuals to lobby for the reform of anti-gay laws. We explore his relationship with his parents, his precocious intellect and his early acceptance and openness about his homosexuality.

Harry designed and etched his own linoleum wood blocks. Harry Hay, American gay rights activist who believed that homosexuals should see themselves as an oppressed minority entitled to equal rights. Henry Hay Jr. (April 7, – October 24, ) was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate.

To move between items, use your keyboard's gay or down arrows. In the gay community as we know it did not exist. Hay has been described as "the Founder of the Modern Gay Movement" [3] and "the father of gay liberation. The exhibition examines his labor activism and involvement with the Communist Party gay its People's Songs movement before moving onto the Mattachine Society period and its aftermath.

He was active in the Los Angeles avant-garde arts movement of the s where he worked as an actor. Sixty years later that vision developed into a worldwide civil rights movement and inspired the creation of lesbian, gay and transgender communities on every continent.

He acted on his convictions and in large measure prompted the dramatic changes in the status of homosexuals that took place in the U.S. in the second half of the 20th century. (), both illustrated by Margaret Tolland.

The exhibition follows Harry Hays life from his early years through to the founding of the Mattachine Society and onto his later activism and eventual co-founding of the Radical Faeries. He cofounded 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.

His work as writer and thinker on Gay Consciousness and identity is examined along with his rediscovery by a younger generation of Gay and Lesbian activists in the s. In he conceived of and helped create the first sustained Gay activist group in America, the Mattachine Society.

Homosexual was a word used hay to describe those who were considered sick heterosexuals. Drawing on original papers, ephemera, videos and personal items archived in the Harry Hay Papers, James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, San Hay Public Library, the epic story of this compelling and complex civil rights leader is brought to life.

He hand printed them to produce personal, politically inspired Christmas greeting cards. Hay participated in the San Francisco General Strike of and fought against Fascism, racism and anti-Semitism in the s.