'His Should Be a Household Name'.

Date01 June 2023

'His Should Be a Household Name'

(September 1998)

Harry Hay is the founder of gay liberation. In 1950, he started the underground Mattachine Society, the first modern gay rights organization. It took its name from a dance, "les Mattachines," that groups of unmarried men performed in France during the Renaissance. According to Hay's 1996 book, Radically Gay, the performances of these fraternities satirized religious and political power. Harry Hay was one of the first to insist that lesbians...

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