Harry Hay, founder of the Mattachine Society, one of the first gay rights organizations, said that Hoover and Tolson sat in boxes owned by and used exclusively by gay men at the Del Mar racetrack in California.

Los Angeles area homosexuals created the Mattachine Society in 1950, in the home of communist activist Harry Hay.

The Mattachine Society was named by Harry Hay at the suggestion of James Gruber, inspired by a French medieval and renaissance masque group he had studied while preparing a course on the history of popular music for a workers ' education project.

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The decidedly clandestine Mattachine Society, founded by Harry Hay and other veterans of the Wallace for President campaign in Los Angeles in 1950, moved into the public eye after Hal Call took over the group in San Francisco in 1953, with many gays emerging from the closet.

Henry " Harry " Hay, Jr. ( April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002 ) was a labor advocate, teacher and early leader in the American LGBT rights movement.

Harry Hay was born on April 7, 1912 in the coastal town of Worthing in Sussex, South East England, as the first child of a prosperous and socially conservative upper-middle-class American family.

His mother, Margaret Hay ( née Neall ) was staying in the country without her father, Harry Hay, Sr .. His father was a mining engineer who had worked for Cecil Rhodes and the Guggenheim family.

Harry Sr. repeatedly punished Hay, including boxing his ears so often that Hay suffered permanent hearing loss.

In an incident Hay recalled as being at the root of his later lack of guilt over his sexuality, Harry Sr. made a statement about Egypt over an evening meal and Hay, knowing him to be wrong, tried to correct him.

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The conference, organized by Harry Hay and his lover John Burnside, along with Los Angeles activist Don Kilhefner and Jungian therapist Mitch Walker, was held over the Labor Day weekend in Benson, Arizona and attracted over two hundred participants.

He specifically targeted Hay: " I recruited people to spy on Harry and see when he was manipulating people, so we could undo his undermining of the scene.

" Various adventures ensue on the land, including a mystical encounter with Harry Hay.

" However, while few were prepared to come out, they did risk severe persecution, and some figures within the Homophile movement such as the American communist Harry Hay were more radical.

* 24 Harry Hay, 90, US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder.

Harry Rosenbloom, founder of the ( now-closed ) Medley Music of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, was manufacturing handmade guitars under the name " Elger.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

While Jeffrey Wilkins, the son-in-law of Golden United founder Harry Gard, Sr., is widely credited as the first president of CompuServe, the initial president was actually Dr. John R. Goltz.

His advisor at the time, Paul Samuelson, brought him on board Arbitrage Management Company ( AMC ), to join founder Michael Goodkin and chief executive Harry Markowitz.

Lee was a niece of Harry Cohn, founder and successful mogul of Columbia Pictures.

Pancost Hall and Crandall Hall are memorials to Alfred H. Pancost, Chief Scout Executive and founder, and to Harry H. Crandall, first president of the Council.

Harry T. Moore, a civil rights leader, teacher and founder of the Brevard County NAACP, was murdered in Mims with his wife, Harriette, in 1951.

* Emerson Spartz: founder of MuggleNet, the most-visited Harry Potter Web site in the world.

In that year, Charles E. Still and Harry M. Still, sons of A. T. Still, the founder of the profession of osteopathic medicine, along with Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth, established the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, which was devoted to the treatment and care of all types of nervous and mental disorders.

* Harry French Knight, founder of the St. Louis Flying Club

* Harry Kels Swan New Jersey Historian ; Curator, National Museum of the American Revolution, President and founder of the Swan Historical Foundation

Other landowners were Thomas Hitchcock and his family, Harry Payne Whitney and his wife the former Gertrude Vanderbilt, founder of New York's Whitney Museum, at Apple Green ( formerly a Mott house ), Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, whose estate is now subdivided into the Old Westbury Country Club and New York Institute of Technology.

His son Harry Guggenheim, founder of Newsday, later erected his estate " Falaise " nearby.

Past Organ Scholars include Dudley Moore, and past Academical Clerks include John Mark Ainsley, Harry Christophers ( founder and director of The Sixteen ), Robin Blaze and conductor / composer Gregory Rose.

Harry Koch, grandfather of oil magnates, philanthropists and conservative political activists Charles Koch and David Koch, was an early settler in Quanah, arriving in 1891, and founder of the Quanah Tribune-Chief, which he ran until his death in 1942.

Harry Wu, founder of the Laogai Research Foundation, described his experiences during the campaign in his books.

Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE ( born 1 March 1944 ), is an English singer, musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who.

" In 2008 Burke acknowledged his Christian methodology differed from that of his maternal uncle, Pastor Harry R. Moore ( born 1933 ; died 1982 ), the founder and pastor of Our First Temple of Faith, at Front and Susquehanna Streets, Philadelphia: " Mine was more: God, money and women, hey hey hey ; truth, love, peace and get it on.

The School has also produced law firm founders, including James Harry Covington ( co-founder of Covington & Burling ), George Wharton Pepper ( Senator from Pennsylvania, and founder of Pepper Hamilton ), Russell Duane ( co-founder of Duane Morris ), and Stephen Cozen, ( co-founder of Cozen O ' Connor ).

* Harry Cohn ( 1891 – 1958 ), founder of Columbia Pictures

* Salazar Slytherin, fictional founder of Slytherin house in the Harry Potter novels