Editing Harry Hay (section)

==Theory==
As he had throughout his life of activism, Hay continued to oppose what he perceived as harmful assimilationist attitudes within the gay community. "We pulled ugly green frog skin of heterosexual conformity over us, and that's how we got through school with a full set of teeth," Hay once explained. "We know how to live through their eyes. We can always play their games, but are we denying ourselves by doing this? If you're going to carry the skin of conformity over you, you are going to suppress the beautiful prince or princess within you."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid13958.asp |title=Gay pioneer Harry Hay dies |date=October 25, 2002 |work=The Advocate |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624112054/http://advocate.com/news_detail_ektid13958.asp |archive-date=June 24, 2008}}</ref> Having rooted his political philosophy from the founding of Mattachine in the belief that homosexuals constituted a cultural minority, Hay was wary of discarding the unique attributes of that minority in favor of adopting the cultural traits of the majority for the purpose of societal acceptance. Having witnessed the move of Mattachine away from its founding Marxist activist principles and having seen the gay community marginalize [[drag queen]]s and the [[leather subculture]] through the first decade of the post-Stonewall gay movement, Hay opposed what he believed were efforts to move other groups to the margins as the gay rights movement progressed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roger Chapman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vRY27FkGJAUC&pg=PA241 |title=Culture Wars: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-7656-2250-1 |page=241 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701034111/http://books.google.com/books?id=vRY27FkGJAUC&pg=PA241 |archive-date=July 1, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>