Season 4: Episode 3: Harry Hay

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🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Harry Hay had a vision, and that vision led to the founding of the first sustained gay rights organization in the United States—the Mattachine Society, in 1950. Mattachine (and Harry’s) first task—establishing a gay identity. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I history
0:02.0	Eric here
0:03.0	A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon channel
0:06.0	a place where we're sharing new video interviews
0:09.0	Never Before Heard Clips from my archive
0:11.0	that didn't make it into the episodes and more.
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0:18.4	Just $5 a month gets you access to these Making Gay History extras, and you'll support us as we work to bring LGBTQ history to life
0:26.1	through the voices of the people who lived it.
0:28.8	Find out more at Patreon.com slash Making Gay History. or go to making gay history
0:34.0	and click on the link in our home page banner and thank you so much.
0:38.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history. The Madishing
1:00.8	Society sprang directly from the mind of Harry Hay in 1950.
1:06.5	Harry was the gay rights pioneer who paved the way for everything that came after.
1:11.0	So if this fourth season of making Gay History is an exploration of beginnings, Harry Hay was there
1:16.5	at the inception of the movement in the U.S.
1:19.9	But if you skim the pages of the Making Gay History book from which this podcast is drawn, you won't
1:24.7	find Harry's interview.
1:26.3	And that's not because when I tried to shake his hand goodbye, he grabbed my face and planted
1:30.5	a wet kiss on my lips, although that definitely pissed me off.
1:34.8	Nor is it because of his tut-tutting which drove me nuts?
1:38.3	And it's also not because he lectured me, almost as if I weren't there, resisting my questions and paused only to call me,
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