Harry Hay papers Bulk, 1950-1990 circa 1867-2002

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Harry Hay papers Bulk, 1950-1990 circa 1867-2002

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Manuscripts, notes, published research sources, correspondence, interviews, clippings, financial and employment records, legal papers, photographs, posters, original and reproduced graphic material, flyers, memorabilia and other material documenting the life of Harry Hay. Hay conceptualized and was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society (1950), the first organization to advocate defense of the civil rights of gays and lesbians on the grounds that they were an oppressed minority. He would remain active in the gay movement as a writer and speaker throughout his life.The collection documents Hay's writing and research related to gay history and identity, his engagement with left and progressive politics dating from the mid-1930s, his involvement in the 1970s and 1980s with researchers exploring the roots of the gay liberation movement, his personal finances and work history, and his personal relationships.

9.9 linear feet.; 2 archive boxes,10 flat boxes, 1 clamshell binder,1 archive carton, 1 envelope, and2 mapcase drawers

ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.

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Mattachine Society

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The Mattachine Society was founded in Los Angeles in 1950 by a small group of Gay men who had communist and/or radical ties. In 1951, Mattachine began sponsoring discussion groups among Gay men to raise awareness of their plight; these discussion groups spread across the county and new chapters were permanently established in Denver, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and other cities. The goal of Mattachine was to fight discrimination and to support and build a positive homosexual commu...

Hay, Harry

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Biography Henry (Harry) Hay Jr. was born in 1912 in Worthing, England, to American parents; his father, Henry Hay Sr., managed mining interests in South Africa, then in Chile. When an accident in 1916 ended the elder Hay's career, the affuent family moved to Los Angeles, where Harry Hay spent his youth. Hay attended Stanford University for two years, then dropped out in 1932 and sought work as an actor and screenwriter in Depression-era Los A...