The Society of Fools: Harry Hay & the Mattachine Society, America's First Gay Rights Group (1950) | LGBTQ+ History Sleep Story
Drift off to sleep learning about the Mattachine Society, the first lasting gay rights organization in the United States, and Harry Hay, the man who called it into being in a Silver Lake living room.
Born April 7, 1912, in Worthing, England, and raised in Los Angeles, Harry Hay learned to organize in the theater, the labor movement, and the Communist Party, which would have expelled him had it known he was gay. In 1948 he drafted "The Call" after a half-joking idea for "Bachelors for Wallace," and on November 11, 1950, five men, Hay, his partner Rudi Gernreich, Bob Hull, Chuck Rowland, and…
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