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Covering Up for Harry: Our Dishonest News Media
by Thomas Clough
Weirdrepublic.com
Six decades ago, Harry Hay founded a secret organization called the Mattachine Society. Its name was derived from a medieval French term for male dancers who sometimes satirized social customs while dressed only in masks. Harry was a visionary; he sought to organize American homosexuals around the notion that they were an oppressed cultural minority, like black people, who should agitate for homosexual rights. He began in Los Angeles in 1950, at a time when virtually no one identified himself publicly as homosexual and at a time when the American Psychiatric Association defined homosexuality as a mental illness.
In 1948, Harry Hay was middle-aged and living with his wife, Anita Platsky, whom he had married to conceal his homosexuality, and their two adopted daughters, when he was seized by the vision of a secret society for homosexuals. Harry was an ardent Communist, an aspiring actor and a disaffected Catholic. One summer night in ’48 he attended an all-male party in L.A. and ruminated aloud about whether the Progressive Party candidate for president, Henry Wallace, might include a sexual privacy plank in his platform in return for the support of homosexuals. That night, while his wife and daughters slept, Harry scribbled the gay movement’s first political manifesto with its organizing principle that gays were an oppressed minority. Harry’s first chose to call his group Bachelors Anonymous. It took him more than two years to recruit four other male homosexuals. Two of them had been Communist Party members; the third, Dale Jennings, was arrested the following year for soliciting sex from a policeman. The fourth man was Harry’s lover, a Viennese immigrant named Rudi Gernreich, who would later become renowned (notorious?) as the designer of the topless bathing suit for women. Harry’s Mattachine Society hired a lawyer to defend Dale Jennings against the solicitation charge, claiming police entrapment, and won an acquittal.
As the Mattachine Society added chapters across America, it grew wary of Harry’s Communist Party affiliation and forced him out. The communists rejected Harry’s homosexuality after he divorced his wife in the late 1950s. More than two decades later, Harry formed the Radical Faeries, who were given to gay spirituality, mud baths and ecstatic dance rituals.
The New York Times published an obituary of Harry Hay on October 25, 2002 that ran for 35 column inches. This was followed by a glowing article about Harry on October 30th and yet another in the choice Sunday magazine section of the Times on December 29th. The Times couldn’t tell us enough about Harry Hay, the founder of gay liberation, who had died at age 90. These fawning articles pretty much covered Harry’s entire life, including his anti-draft and anti-war activities and his work with Native American activists. The Times even made mention of Harry’s participation in the Communist Party agitation that led to a union strike that closed the Port of San Francisco in 1934. So it’s mighty peculiar that the New York Times, the newspaper of record, the paper all the other papers and all the television networks look to for direction, somehow never got around to mentioning that Harry Hay was an enthusiastic supporter of NAMBLA, The North American Man-Boy Love Association, which advocates the abolition of all age-of-consent laws. Yup, Harry was an advocate of pedophile rights, which he believed was an organic dimension of gay rights.
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MRS.MOUREN DOWD: --- NAMBLA? Huuuuhh... NYT loves progressive outstanding organizations as this one...well, let me be the first to welcome you into our happy MSM family...:)
Ok team, let's do a cheer for NAMBLA!... :)