Harry Hay: Communist pneer the fight for gay liberatn – People's World

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• GAY, HENRY GEE
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS HERVEY BAY
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• HARRY HAY: COMMUNIST PNEER THE FIGHT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• MEET PNEER OF GAY RIGHTS, HARRY HAY
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS HERVEY BAY
• HERVEY BAY GAY FRIENDLY HOTELS
• GAY VILLAGE HERVEY BAY

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Durg the 1940s-1960s Henry Gay worked at var Melbourne rad statns and at GTV9 televisn. IT WAS a dark day for Hervey Bay’s Henry Gay when Graham Kennedy, known as the Kg of Atralian televisn, died CoastDon't miss out on the headl om Fraser Coast. Followed tegori will be add to My WAS a dark day for Hervey Bay's Henry Gay when Graham Kennedy, known as the Kg of Atralian televisn, died only was his ath a loss for Atralian rad, theatre, televisn and film, for Henry meant losg a Gay first met Kennedy the 1950s while workg at Melbourne's 3UZ rad statn, which figured heavily his life for ne that time he and Kennedy built up a life-long also beme particularly close after Henry worked as Kennedy's ghost wrer for a regular lumn The Age newspaper.

"We had known each other for over 50 years and we always kept touch, " Mr Gay said. "After losg two other good iends the same year, Mr Gay found himself searchg for a 's how his self-published book, Graham Kennedy and Others Revealed, me 95-page book ntas a small llectn of letters om Kennedy, cludg one that scrib Mr Gay as his olst livg iend, and anecdot about other personali, cludg Charlton Hton, Julie London, Buddy Rich and Clifford "Nicky" Gay and Kennedy started their letter wrg when Henry asked Graham for a reference as he tried for a Menzi Scholarship.

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"Sce s release December, Mr Gay said the book had attracted the attentn of some big nam televisn, cludg a triple Gold Logie award-wng recipient whose name n't be revealed for privacy reasons.

"Let's put this way - a few people that worked wh Graham 1956 have bought , " said a tight-lipped Mr said pletg the book, which took about five years, was a great way to remisce on his life as well as keepg memori of "The Kg" alive - as do Kennedy's rerd llectn that is now Mr Gay's Kennedy and Others Revealed is available on EBay and fast factsGraham was honoured wh the Natnal Orr of Atralia medal and was a five-time recipient of the Gold Logie, as well as havg won the Star of the Year Award wh Ray Mart (a wner of five Logi) is the most award star of Atralian on May 25, 2005, at Gay fast factsBegan workg life rad at 3UZ, then a ltle TV, volvg mic and rearch, and at Gndy' wrer for var people for newspapers and a rerd pany.

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Begng wh the “ghetto rt” at the Stonewall Bar Greenwich Village 1969, an open gay liberatn movement me to existence which has been a signifint force the larger peopl’ movements for almost a half-century. While most people intify gay liberatn wh the “New Left” of the 1960s, , like the civil rights, women’s rights, and anti-war movements of the time, nnot be separated om the range of broad labor-left anizatns that had been forced to a polil closet wh the onset of the Cold War, cludg the Communist Party. Nowhere was this more evint than the life of Harry Hay, longtime Communist Party USA (CPUSA) activist, tra unn ant, and founr 1950 of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay rights groups U.

HARRY HAY: COMMUNIST PNEER THE FIGHT FOR GAY LIBERATN

Unlike racism or even sexism, there was no iology of gay equaly or rights to draw om, no fn of cultural pluralism for gay men and lbians. Homophobia was “normal” across the polil spectm then (as still is for the Right).

Gay men and lbians were pelled to live a closeted existence, facg possible prison sentenc, certa blacklistg, and likely isolatn om iends and fay if they were exposed. Most progrsiv and liberals at the time saw homosexualy as a “medil problem, ” spe the path-breakg Ksey Report of the late 1940s which showed homosexual nduct to be both wispread and hard to distguish terms of personaly om heterosexual nduct.

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Virtually all polil groups, cludg the Communist Party, rejected open homosexuals as members, although the sexual orientatns of Harry Hay and other gay party members were known and, the language of the time, “tolerated, ” by fellow ras who treated them as equals bee of their work as activists and anizers.

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In such an atmosphere, the task of pneerg a path toward what eventually beme known as “gay liberatn” fell to Harry Hay. As a young man, he was fluenced by the wrgs of Edward Carpenter, a Brish homosexual and socialist, who saw gay people as an opprsed group wh their own distct culture and needs. It was Los Angel 1934 that Harry met Will Geer, a gay actor, sger, and CPUSA activist, who was to bee his lover.

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Harry ntued his party and left work through the late 1940s, anizg California a group of progrsive gay men, Bachelors Anonymo, to support Henry Wallace’s Progrsive Party printial mpaign 1948.

Durg the mpaign, Harry worked among gays and actually helped to rry a precct wh a large gay populatn for Wallace. He also raised the issue of the Progrsive Party supportg a sexual privacy law exchange for gay vot – perhaps the first time U. History that anyone had fed gays as a votg nstuency wh specific polil needs.

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Lnchg the gay liberatn movement. Wh gay iends and ras, he formed the Mattache Society November 1950. The French had taken the name Mattache om the Italian mattacho – urt jters who uld speak the tth to kgs only when they wore masks – much like gays and other mori who were pelled to disguise themselv and prete themselv when addrsg those who refed to see them as they were.

He reached a pot, however, where he saw his work as first and foremost as beg wh the stggle for gay liberatn, which, as a Communist, he intified wh the stggl of opprsed people throughout the world.

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Wh the feat of fascism and the llapse of lonialism, he saw a new openg of possibili for gay liberatn.

The Communist Party learship California rpected his ntributns, but as wh almost all anizatns, the domant iology of the tim kept the CPUSA om acceptg open homosexuals as party members. The argument that party functnari passively accepted was sentially the same one ed to purge homosexual men om the feral ernment – that gays would be subject to blackmail and th uld be ed to betray the anizatn. Fally, Hay worked out a promise wh the California CP learship, which he would be dropped om membership as a “secury risk, ” but not for beg a homosexual.