How Harry Hay Beme a Pneer of the Gay Rights Movement

Contents:

• HENRY GAY NAMED 2019 HISTORY MAKER HONOREE
• HENRY GAY, SR.
• HENRY GAY
• HENRY GAY, IL
• IS HENRY OM MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT GAY? JT ONE OF THE LI CHRISTA SAID ABOUT HER MAFS HBAND
• GAY RIGHTS
• HENRY GAY'S MIGHTY PEN LEFT INLIBLE IMPRSN ON JOURNALISM, SHELTON
• HOW HARRY HAY BEME A PNEER OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• 'MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT': IS HENRY GAY? CHRISTA QUTNS HER HBAND BUT FANS THK IS BEE SHE LIED

HENRY GAY NAMED 2019 HISTORY MAKER HONOREE

Henry (1) Gay, first of his fay Virgia, was a headright of Jam Long who patented 300 acr on the wtern Branch of the Nansemond River, Nansemond County, Feb. Henry Gay, on April 22, 1669, received a grant om Sir William Berkeley, Gov., of 400 acr of land the Upper Parish of Nansemond for the transportatn of 8 persons nsistg of the headrights of 4 children assigned by Thomas Cullen and Andrew Clawson and four other persons whose nam seem to be distct to the person who pied them. -33) On May 1, 1689, Henry Gay II, son of Henry I, ma an agreement wh Lewis Brian (Bryan) as follows: "Lewis Brian of Nansemond stands bted to HENRY GAY of Isle of Wight, Feb.

Condns are that Lewis Brian will not molt Robert Lawrence where he now liv on land omerly belongg to HENRY GAY, cd., om the ma river up to Burnt Hoe Branch. Was a headright of Jam Long who patented 300 acr on the wtern Branch of the Nansemond River, Nansemond County, Feb 8, 1663, for the transportatn of six persons among whom was Henry Gay (C. "Henry Gay, on April 22, 1669 received a grant om Sir William Berkely, Governor, of 400 acr of land the Upper Parish of Nansemond for the transportatn of 8 persons nsistg of the headrights of 4 children assisned by Thomas Cullen and Andrew Clawson and four other persons whose nam seem to be distct to the person who pied them.

HENRY GAY, SR.

Acpanied by three men named Carnage, Wright and Sween, "Red" and his wife Margaret left Virgia for to settle Owsley County, Kentucky at the mouth of Gays Creek. Their children, all sons too, were: THOMAS GAY, father of LIGE (ELIJAH), Born 1895, and CALE GAY, born 1910, : BILL GAY, father of ALLEN GAY, born 1892, : JOHN GAY; ABRAHAM GAY; LIGE GAY; HENRY GAY; and JESS GAY.

ON JUNE 27, 1976, THE REUNION WAS HELD AT LEVI JACKSON STATE PARK, WHERE THE FOLLOWING DEDICATION WAS READ: "HENRY GAY, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HIS MINUTEMEN HELPED BUILD AND MAINTAIN THIS LAND OF THE FREE, INSURING PEACE AND TRANQUILITY WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

WE, HIS DESCENDANTS, GATHER HERE TODAY IN PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP TO CELEBRATE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GAY REUNION AND THE 200TH BIRTHDAY OF OUR NATION AND TO HEREBY WISH TO DEDICATE AND INSTILL IN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF ALL HERE PRESENT, THE MEMORY OF OUR BELOVED RED HENRY GAY. "I, Henry Gay, Sr., beg sick body and beg perfectly my right md, and as life is uncerta, and wishg to settle my affairs this world, first: I give my son Henry, my upper plantatn where Rsell Gay now liv, for work he has done for me sce he has been of age, also my watch and the e of a horse beast untill he n raise one, if he liv wh me that long, and i will and bequeath unto my son Rsell, two heifers, to be worth eleven dollars, and the balance of my tate, both real and personal; I will and bequeath to my wife, to be divid between the followg heirs, to w: Nelson, Elijah, and Joseph, Joanna, Rachel and Mary. On May 1, 1689, Henry Gay II, son of Henry I, ma an agreement wh Lewis Brian (Bryan) as follows: "Lewis Brian of Nansemond stands bted to HENRY GAY of Isle of Wight, Feb.

HENRY GAY

We assume om cens rerds that the Margaret Gay, aged 70 the 1850 Cens, and livg wh apparent son, Joseph Gay, is the possible 3rd wife of Henry Gay and the mother of all children born Kentucky. ↑ Fd A Grave, database and imag (accsed 28 May 2019), memorial page for William Henry “Red” Gay, Sr (1748–1830), Fd A Grave: Memorial #11393043, cg, USA; Mataed by Fd A Grave (ntributor 8). The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

HENRY GAY, IL

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

IS HENRY OM MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT GAY? JT ONE OF THE LI CHRISTA SAID ABOUT HER MAFS HBAND

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari). After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.

" This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad. ”Over the next several nights, gay activists ntued to gather near the Stonewall, takg advantage of the moment to spread rmatn and build the muny that would fuel the growth of the gay rights movement. Johnson is seen at a Gay Liberatn Front monstratn at Cy Hall New York, a large crowd memorat the 2nd anniversary of the Stonewall rts Greenwich Village of New York Cy 1971.

GAY RIGHTS

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Activists also turned the once-disreputable Pk Triangle to a symbol of gay Polil Victori The creased visibily and activism of LGBTQ dividuals the 1970s helped the movement make progrs on multiple onts.

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

HENRY GAY'S MIGHTY PEN LEFT INLIBLE IMPRSN ON JOURNALISM, SHELTON

Baker signed and stched together the first rabow flag, which he unveiled at a pri para followg year, 1979, more than 100, 000 people took part the first Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985. Two years later, the first antiretroviral meditn for HIV, azidothymide (AZT), beme rights proponents held the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights 1987.

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn. The law prevented the ernment om grantg feral marriage benefs to same-sex upl and allowed stat to refe to regnize same-sex marriage certifit om other marriage rights backtracked, gay rights advot sred other victori.

HOW HARRY HAY BEME A PNEER OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.

'MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT': IS HENRY GAY? CHRISTA QUTNS HER HBAND BUT FANS THK IS BEE SHE LIED

Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. Gay Marriage Legalized Massachetts was the first state to legalize gay marriage, and the first legal same-sex marriage was performed on May 17, 2004—a day when seventy-seven other upl across the state also tied the knot. Conservative Jtice Anthony Kennedy sid wh Jtic Ruth Bar Gsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan favor of same-sex marriage rights, ultimately makg gay marriage legal across the natn on June 2015.

As Roger Downey wrote of him, "there has been nothg journalism que like Henry Gay's 25-year reign of terror agast stupidy, illogic and malice public life as appears his Journal. A recent episo of GBBO had fans their feels bee he sported a Helena-spired brooch, and had many others speculatg that Henry is gay after the young baker was spotted lyg on fellow nttant David Atherton's shoulr. He acted on his nvictns and large measure prompted the dramatic chang the stat of homosexuals that took place the Uned Stat the send half of the 20th century.

Throughout his time as a proment figure of the CPUSA and his marriage, Hay had many homosexual affairs, most notably wh actor Will Geer and an readg Aled Ksey’s Sexual Behavr the Human Male (1948), Hay veloped the goal of anizg the disparate homosexuals of Ameri to elic public change. Ksey’s work asserted that 10 percent of mal were actively volved homosexual activy, and Hay nsequently believed that if this were the se, there would be enough of them the Amerin populatn to anize to a mass movement fendg homosexualy agast discrimatn. The buddg gay rights activist went on to wre a manifto on the movement, where he was the first to view homosexuals the Uned Stat as a culturally “opprsed mory, ” a term ually attributed to racial groups.

Soon after, Hay divorced his wife and began to sow the seeds of the gay rights the help of Chuck Rowland and Bob Hull, Hay tablished the Mattache Society, a secret homophile anizatn Los Angel.

The ial years of the society’s tablishment nsisted of meetgs led by Hay and meant to brg awarens and to te s members on the relatnship between social jtice and homosexualy. Although the Mattache Society laid an expansive amework for future ph for gay rights, Hay himself did not fare well wh the anizatn, and he spl om the group 1953. His leftist polics and radil views regardg gay assiatn—he did not thk reasonable or satisfyg for homosexuals to f to a society which heterosexualy was the domant and preferred liftyle—have been suggted as reasons for his parture.

As a rult, Hay found the Radil Faeri, another semipublic gay muny through which the rights of homosexuals were upled wh ias of spirual renewal and New Age practic. A champn for a diverse homosexual inty, Hay often wad to ntent bat, notably by advotg for such ntroversial anizatns as the North Amerin Man-Boy Love Associatn (NAMBLA), a pro-perasty group. Although the term “gay rights” was a part of the mastream rhetoric by the time of the Stonewall Rts 1969, he paved the way for s ial tablishment through his nstant polil progrsivism and social activism.