It is meet in June, to celebrate our gay elders, like Harry Hay. It is fitting too, to remember that the Gay Moment eternally rolling through our civilization, is made of small moments in the heart and the head. It is spiritual, and intellectual, and organizational, and psychological, and philosophical as well as economic and religious, long BEFORE it becomes legal.
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| The Great Wall of Los angeles remembers gay history |
Hooray, Harry Hay! Up the Mattachines, and praise the Daughters of Bilitis! Los Angeles has plenty to be proud of.
Our elders have, decade after decade, brought love as their tare to weigh in the scales of justice; and love must surely weigh preponderant, in any balance truly just.
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"Harry Hay founded the Mattachine Society on this hillside on November 11, 1950." Actually, it was in the beautiful Silverlake house, adjacent. The neighborhood was then named Edendale, and it was LA's gay and bohemian and socialist enclave; all of which things, Harry was. |
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| In 1939, while Harry stayed in Edendale, he commissioned, for his mother, this extremely influential house, from extremely influential LA modernist Gregory Ain. Supposedly, Hay wangled Margaret to host much of the Mattachine activity here; it's easy to imagine gay men swanning before this hearth. (The sepia shots are by LA's most famous architectural photographer, Julius Shulman.) This noble house is still nearly untouched on Oakcrest, here in Studio City, priceless, but $1.25m on Dwell. |
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