Homosexuality In America,” -- or-- How I found out I was “gay” at age 16, 1964.

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Having spent a lot of time with the Radical Faeries, I was told that the Mattachine Society was founded by Harry Hay in 1950. (wikipedia confirms this.) Here's an interesting clip where he talks about the 1930s, when there was not even the word homosexual in the dictionary. Imagine starting a gay rights organization without the word gay or homosexual!