32 Quotes by Harry Hay

I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool.

Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the gifts we bear, /So heavy and so painful the fashioning of them, /So long the road given us to travel them. A separate people, /We bring a gift to celebrate each other, /’Tis a gift to be gay! / Feel the pride of it!

Up 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.

Up 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.

Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you’re a degenerate, and they’ve never forgotten that.

I’m not looking for a boyish girl. I’m looking for a boy. And I’m not looking for a girlish boy either.

I always say to people, “If you share my dream, why don’t we walk together?” And that’s my only organizing tool.

The moment you say, “We are proud. I’m proud to be this, and I’m proud to be that,” what you’re saying is we’re almost as good as the others. “Almost” always means not quite.

Underneath that facade, I’m a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.