When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness.
The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground. - Harry Hay
The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.
- Harry Hay
Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show. - Harry Hay
Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.
The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost… - Harry Hay
The moment you say, "We are proud. I'm proud to be this, and I'm proud to be that," what you're saying is we're almost as good as the others. "Almost…
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the… - Harry Hay
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the…
I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement. - Harry Hay
I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.
I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool. - Harry Hay
I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.
I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who… - Harry Hay
I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who…
Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did. - Harry Hay
Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. - Harry Hay
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
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