"…In that time, you aren't a gay person, you aren't a homosexual person, you're a degenerate. And what you were suffering from was what was known as ostracism. Ostracism means you don't exist at all. And that's a very difficult situation to live with. As gay people, we had been chasing ostracism by that point for probably 300 years. You just knew that you should have dropped into your black hole."
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On what homosexuals went through in the 1920s and 1930s in “Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay” in The Progressive (2016 Aug 9)
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Harry Hay
Henry "Harry" Hay, Jr. (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) was an American LGBT, labor, and Marxist activist, best known for his role in the creation of the Gay Liberation movement in the 1960s.
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