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Radically Gay: The Life of Harry Hay

KALW | By Eric Jansen
Published July 5, 2012 at 5:41 AM PDT

Out in the Bay host Eric Jansen speaks with Joey Cain, curator of theSan Francisco Public Library exhibit "Radically Gay: The Life of Harry Hay,"  which honors the centennial of gay rights pioneer and labor activist Harry Hay's birth. Cain and Jansen are joined by writer and historian Will Roscoe and Harry’s niece Sally Hay, an LGBTQ activist in Rhode Island.  Harry Hay was a labor advocate, teacher and early leader in the LGBT rights movement, known for, among other things, co-founding the Radical Faeries in the late 1970s and the Mattachine Society - the first sustained political gay rights group in the United States - in the early 1950s, some 60 years ago!    (Broadcast 7/5 at 7pm, listen anytime by clicking on the soundfile above.)  The exhibit closes July 29.
Eric Jansen
Eric Jansen is a long-time broadcaster and print journalist. A former news anchor, producer and reporter at KQED FM, San Francisco; KLIV AM, San Jose; and Minnesota Public Radio, Eric's award-winning reports have been heard on many NPR programs and PRI's Marketplace. His print work has been in The Mercury News, The Business Journal, and LGBTQ magazines Genre and The Advocate, among other publications. He co-produced the June 2007 PBS documentary Why We Sing!, about LGBTQ choruses and their role in the civil rights fight.
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