Harry Hay

“In those days, to be a homosexual was to be a criminal, a sinner, and a sick person.”

“Assimilation is the way to becoming invisible.”

“To be a Radical Faerie is to be a non-conformist.”

“We, the abnormals, are the inventors of values.”

“We are a people with our own spiritual values.”

“If we are to be a people, we must have a culture.”

“The homosexual is a social dissident, an outcast from the heterosexual world.”

“We must begin to see that we are not a minority but a separate people, with a separate history, a separate culture, and a separate destiny.”

“Our job is not to be for or against any political party, but to be for ourselves.”

“We are the founders of a new world, a new society, a new conception of human love, and human comradeship.”

“Worse than thieves, murderers, or traitors, we were apostates. We were the excommunicated, the untouchables, the unnamable.”

“The straight world is not the real world.”