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'''Henry Hay''' commonly known as '''Harry Hay'''is the widely acknowledge founder and and progenitor of the  activist [[homosexual agenda]] in the United States.  Hay has been likened to [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Emma Goldman]], and [[Rosa Parks]] among [[liberal]] advocates of [[gay rights]].  Hay joined the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) in 1934. <ref>''The Boston Phoenix'', [http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/documents/02511115.htm The real Harry Hay], Michael Bronski, October 31 - November 7, 2002. </ref>

'''Henry Hay''' commonly known as '''Harry Hay'''is the widely acknowledge founder and and progenitor of the  activist [[homosexual agenda]] in the United States.  Hay has been likened to [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Emma Goldman]], and [[Rosa Parks]] among [[liberal]] advocates of [[gay rights]].  Hay joined the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) in 1934. <ref>''The Boston Phoenix'', [http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/documents/02511115.htm The real Harry Hay], Michael Bronski, October 31 - November 7, 2002. </ref>

The original founders of the Mat­tachine Society were all either former CPUSA members or fellow travellers.   The first step Hay took in organizing the Mattachine Society was to recommend to the CPUSA that he be expelled in 1951 after eighteen years as a member. Rather than do that in light of his years of service to the party and work as a teacher at the California Labor School, <ref>[http://www.sojournertruth.net/ipp.html#i In Partial Payment Class Struggle, Sexuality and Gay Liberation (1978)], by A. Rausch. Retrieved from ''Urgent Tasks: [[Leftist|Journal of the Revolutionary Left]]'', Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive , 10 May 2007. </ref> they released him as “a security risk but a life-long friend of the people.” Hay and his comrades took the first public action in circulating the USSR and the East European Communist parties sponsored anti-war Stockholm Stockholm Peace petition effort against the Korean War <ref>[http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/germberia.htm New Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations: Background and Analysis,]Milton Leitenberg, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. </ref> at a gay beach in Los Angeles; some of the contacts they gained in this way were later organized into their first study and discussion groups. The first months pro­duced hundreds of members.  

The original founders of the Mat­tachine Foundation were all either former CPUSA members or fellow travellers. The first step Hay took in organizing the Mattachine Foundation was to recommend to the CPUSA that he be expelled in 1951 after eighteen years as a member. Rather than do that in light of his years of service to the party and work as a teacher at the California Labor School, <ref>[http://www.sojournertruth.net/ipp.html#i In Partial Payment Class Struggle, Sexuality and Gay Liberation (1978)], by A. Rausch. Retrieved from ''Urgent Tasks: [[Leftist|Journal of the Revolutionary Left]]'', Sojourner Truth Organization Digital Archive , 10 May 2007. </ref> they released him as “a security risk but a life-long friend of the people.” The early leadership of the Foundation shaped the organization to reflect the cell structure of the Communist Party, in which "secrecy, hierarchical structures, and centralized leadership predominated." <ref>John D'Emilio, ''Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), quoted in Martin Meeker, Behind the Mask of Respectability, ''Journal of the History of Sexuality'', (2001) 78-116. </ref>

Hay and his comrades took the first public action in circulating the USSR and the East European Communist parties sponsored anti-war Stockholm Stockholm Peace petition effort against the Korean War <ref>[http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/germberia.htm New Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations: Background and Analysis,]Milton Leitenberg, Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. </ref> at a gay beach in Los Angeles; some of the contacts they gained in this way were later organized into their first study and discussion groups. The first months pro­duced hundreds of members.  

Hay was a regular speaker at NAMBLA Conferences and NAMBLA continiues to carry a special tribute to Hay on its homepage along with his published material.  In 1983 Hay told a NAMBLA conference in New York,

Hay was a regular speaker at NAMBLA Conferences and NAMBLA continiues to carry a special tribute to Hay on its homepage along with his published material.  In 1983 Hay told a NAMBLA conference in New York,