Harry Hay: The Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries A presentation by Davis Anderson.
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Transcript of Harry Hay: The Mattachine Society and Radical Faeries A presentation by Davis Anderson.
Harr
y H
ay
(1912-
2002)
“The assimilationist movement
is running us into the ground”.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/harry_hay.html#JPygBERb001r3CLG.99
Ori
gin
s of
the
Matt
ach
ine S
coie
ty
Founded in 1950, L.A.
Homophile/ homosexual
emancipation organization
Communist cells “I first conceived of a gay group in August
1948, in Los Angeles. What happened was
this: I went to a beer bust at the University of
Southern California, run by some gay guys I
knew. Half the people there were students –-
one or two were theology students, some
legal students--and we got to talking about
the Henry Wallace presidential campaign.
Wallace was running on the Progressive party
ticket. I came up with the idea that we should
start a group called "Bachelors for Wallace."
With the help of a couple of quarts of beer, we
worked up quite a case for what the Bachelors
for Wallace would do, what we would ask for
constitutional amendments, etc. It sounded
like a great idea”.
http://outhistory.org/wiki/Harry_Hay:_Founding_the_Mattachine_Society,_1948-1953
What H
as B
eco
me
of th
e S
ocie
ty
“They advocated with physicians, lawyers and
therapists that were gay friendly so that people did not
need to hide their sexual orientation in order to be
helped. Unfortunately, due to financial restraints and
internal conflict, the Mattachine Society closed its
doors officially in 1987”.
http://lgbtqmovementintheus.blogspot.com/2013/02/mattachine-society-paving-way-to.html
Birth
of th
e
Radica
l Faerie
s We believe that, as a
people, we have unique and
necessary contributions to
make, ones that we must
make to help regain the lost
balance of the larger
human community. Being
radically (at the root)
decentralist and anti-
authoritarian, we have no
leaders. Each Faerie is
divine and speaks for
itself”.
http://www.faeriecampdestiny.org/joomla/component/option,com_simplefaq/task,display/Itemid,113/catid,33/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GsyVPypms
Continued Presence“Who are we? Where have we been? Where are we going?
The gay movement has left these central questions unaddressed. In fact, some gay people would have us believe we're just the same as the straights, except for what we do between the sheets. But others of us hold to the gut feeling that we _are_ different-that we gay people are _a people_. As a people we have ways that are peculiar to us and a language that characterizes us. We have our own past and, even more importantly, our own future”.
http://eniac.yak.net/shaggy/faerieinf.html