The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement
by Stuart Timmons
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In a galvanizing sweep through the Twentieth Century, award-winning historian Stuart Timmons chronicles the story of the man who founded the modern gay movement. After decades of searching and struggle, Harry Hay created the Mattachine Society in 1950, the nation’s first gay political group. Today, LGBT activism is taken for granted. But over a half century ago, it required a visionary and courageous spirit to organize a stigmatized and closeted class of people.In this Centenary Edition of show more The Trouble with Harry Hay, Timmons documents those tumultuous early years of the homophile movement and the colorful life of its founder.This newly updated biography is a classic study of the man who started it all.“This engrossing,well-written book rescues Harry Hay from the realm of myth and also recovers large chunks of gay history. On both counts, it is a solid, praiseworthy achievement.” —Martin Duberman, Founder of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School and Professor Emeritus of History at City University New York. show lessTags
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- The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement
- Epigraph
- Urning men and women, on whose book of life Nature has written her new word which sounds so strange to us, bear such storm and stress with in them, such ferment and fluctuation, so much complex material having its outlet only... (show all) in the future; their individualities are so rich and many-sided, and withal so little understand, that it is impossible to characterize them adequately in a few sentences. - Otto de Jeux, Love's Disinherited, 1893
- Dedication
- For everyone who became an activist. And for everyone who will.
- First words
- He was born a sissy, with a delicately imperious streak that surfaced when he was just two.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Harry went to be cremated wearing silk and velvet, in a skirt and surrounded with rose petals, like the Duchess that he was.
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- Duberman, Martin; Martin, Del and Phyllis Lyon; Katz, Jonathan Ned
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- Nonfiction, LGBTQ+, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 306.76 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Sexual relations Sexual orientation, transgender identity, intersexuality
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- HQ75.8 .H39 .T56 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Homosexuality. Lesbianism
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- English
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