Frases de Harry Hay

Harry Hay fue un activista y líder del movimiento gay[1]​[2]​ en los Estados Unidos, conocido por fundar la Mattachine Society en 1950 y las Radical Faeries en 1979. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. abril 1912 – 24. octubre 2002
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Harry Hay: Frases en inglés

“…I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.”

On living a closeted married life in “Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay” https://progressive.org/magazine/meet-pioneer-gay-rights-harry-hay/ in The Progressive (2016 Aug 9)

“…I always say to people, If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?”

And that's my only organizing tool.

On organizing people to come together in “Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay” https://progressive.org/magazine/meet-pioneer-gay-rights-harry-hay/ in The Progressive (2016 Aug 9)

“…it was not in the dictionary. I've always said, If I had the sense I was born with and looked it up in the legal code, I would have found it.”

And it was in the penal code, of course. It wouldn't be in any American dictionary until 1938. And in most American dictionaries not until the Second World War. We had no words for ourselves. That's the important point--we didn't have words...

On not having the word to define his sexual orientation in “Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay” https://progressive.org/magazine/meet-pioneer-gay-rights-harry-hay/ in The Progressive (2016 Aug 9)