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Harry Hay: The Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries

Harry Hay: The Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries . A presentation by Davis Anderson . Harry Hay (1912- 2002 ) . “The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground”. http :// www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/harry_hay.html#JPygBERb001r3CLG.99 . Founded in 1950, L.A.

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Harry Hay: The Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries

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  1. Harry Hay: The Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries A presentation by Davis Anderson

  2. Harry Hay(1912- 2002) “The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground”. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/harry_hay.html#JPygBERb001r3CLG.99

  3. Founded in 1950, L.A. • Homophile/ homosexual emancipation organization • Communist cells • “I first conceived of a gay group in August 1948, in Los Angeles. What happened was this: I went to a beer bust at the University of Southern California, run by some gay guys I knew. Half the people there were students –- one or two were theology students, some legal students--and we got to talking about the Henry Wallace presidential campaign. Wallace was running on the Progressive party ticket. I came up with the idea that we should start a group called "Bachelors for Wallace." With the help of a couple of quarts of beer, we worked up quite a case for what the Bachelors for Wallace would do, what we would ask for constitutional amendments, etc. It sounded like a great idea”. http://outhistory.org/wiki/Harry_Hay:_Founding_the_Mattachine_Society,_1948-1953 Origins of the MattachineScoiety

  4. What Has Become of the Society “They advocated with physicians, lawyers and therapists that were gay friendly so that people did not need to hide their sexual orientation in order to be helped. Unfortunately, due to financial restraints and internal conflict, the Mattachine Society closed its doors officially in 1987”. http://lgbtqmovementintheus.blogspot.com/2013/02/mattachine-society-paving-way-to.html

  5. We believe that, as a people, we have unique and necessary contributions to make, ones that we must make to help regain the lost balance of the larger human community. Being radically (at the root) decentralist and anti-authoritarian, we have no leaders. Each Faerie is divine and speaks for itself”. Birth of the Radical Faeries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GsyVPypms http://www.faeriecampdestiny.org/joomla/component/option,com_simplefaq/task,display/Itemid,113/catid,33/

  6. “Who are we?Where have we been? Where are we going? The gay movement has left these central questions unaddressed. In fact, some gay people would have us believe we're just the same as the straights, except for what we do between the sheets. But others of us hold to the gut feeling that we _are_ different-that we gay people are _a people_. As a people we have ways that are peculiar to us and a language that characterizes us. We have our own past and, even more importantly, our own future”. Continued Presence http://eniac.yak.net/shaggy/faerieinf.html

  7. Conclusion: Legacy ofHarry Hay

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