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Harry Hay, English-American activist, co-founded the Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries (born 1912)
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Harry Hay
American gay rights activist (1912–2002)
Henry Hay Jr. was an American gay rights activist, communist, and labor advocate. 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. Hay has been described…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mattachine Society
American gay male advocacy group
The Mattachine Society, founded in 1950, was an early national gay rights organization in the United States, preceded by several covert and open organizations, such as Chicago's Society for Human Rights. Communist and labor activist Harry Hay formed the group with a collection…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Radical Faeries
Counter-cultural movement
Radical Faeries are a loosely affiliated worldwide network and countercultural movement blending queer consciousness and secular spirituality. Sharing various aspects with neopaganism, the movement also adopts elements from anarchism and environmentalism. Rejecting…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)