Harry Hay  confab John D'Emillio  Closing keynote  demotes Harry Hay historical role pt 1
Channel: Jim Fouratt
Date: 2012-09-30

In a shocking and inappropriate use of the closing keynote address Historian John D'Emillio chooses to say Harry is no longer significant .. sparks flew as stunned conference goers could not believe what they were hearing .. a small group of young queer academics were over come with glee as the hero of gay essentialist   was put in his place and buried by D'Emillio. Not a surprise when you think how many of the presenters seem not to have read or understood the core issues of Harry Hay essentialist  position Almost no discussion that i heard honored Harry's gender theory .. his positing of four genders : the first two being hetero male and hetero female and the second two homosexual men and lesbians. Shockingly programed had a new fairy, a gender queer bio female self designating v as a trasnman on a panel about radical fairies. , While v was painfully honest and vulnerable it was in fact a slap in tte face of what Harry felt about he uniqueness of gay men ..  and the infiltration of non-normative heterosexuality into fairy space. A woman naming vself a man "playing" with gay men divides and conquers the fairy space.