Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free.
Harry HayGiving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
Harry HayUp 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 HayI always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.
Harry HayOstracism 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.
Harry HayWhen 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.
Harry Hay