Sasha Alyson and Richard Labonte first proposed this biography; it would never have reached completion without their patience, encouragement, and support.
Many others deserve my sincere thanks. They include: William Alexander, Robert Balzer, Albert Bell, Phyllis Bennis, Kate Hay Berman, Ruth Bernhard, Allan Bérubé, Betty Berzon, Martin Block, Joan Blood, Phillip Blood, Blue Sky Butterfly (Walter Blumoff), Joe Breyak, Peggy Hay Breyak, Peter Brocco, James Burford, Jean Hay Burke, John Burnside, Joey Cain, John Cage, Tracy Cave, John Ciddio, Kay McTernan Cole, Craig Collins, David Cohen, Josie Cottogio, Katherine Davenport, Tom Dickerson, Dimid, Ben Dobbs, Sandy Dwyer, Alan Eichler, Arthur Evans, Harry Frazier, Elizabeth Freeman, Fritz Frurip, Rudi Gernreich, Sandra Gladstone, Al Gordon, Eric Gordon, Helen Johnson Gorog, Lacie Gorog, James Gruber, Pat Gutierrez, Manly P. Hall, David Hawkins, Jack Hay, Jean Hay, Dorothy Healey, Tom Heskette, Bill Hill, Evelyn Hooker, Luke Johnson, Jorn Kamgren, Jonathan Ned Katz, Walter Keller, Jim Kepner, Morris Right, Chris Kilbourne, Ronald Kirk, Reginald Leborg, Dorr Legg, Gene London, Alejandro Lopez, Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin, Lin Maslow, Bob McNee, John McTernan, Harnish Mearns, Alma Meier, Joan Mocine, Mary Mocine, Jim Morrow, Hannah Hay Muldaven, Irv Niemy, Chaz Nol, Alan Page, Frank Pestana, Stanton Price, Shane Que-Hee, Angus J. Ray, Silvia Richards, Ben Rinaldo, Martha Rinaldo, Florence Robbins, Earl Robinson, Bradley Rose, Charles Rowland, Sai (David Liner), Pete Seeger, Al Sherman, Michael Shibley, Dan Siminoski, Joel Singer, William Lonon Smith, Konrad Stevens, William Stewart, Mark Thompson, Dale Treleven, Jacques Vandemborghe, Frans Von Rossum, Mitch Walker, Donald Wheeldin, Walter Williams, Raven Wolfdancer, and Martin Worman.
For providing information related to Hay’s background, thanks are due to Sarah Cooper and Mary Tyler of the Southern California Library for Social Research, and to Sandra Archer and the cheerful staff of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library. James Kepner’s International Gay and Lesbian Archives contain many original documents related to Hay and the Mattachine Society; special thanks to Kepner for allowing me to examine his personal correspondence with Hay and his unpublished historical writing. Thanks also to James Broughton for kindly allowing me to preview a section of his unpublished autobiography and to Gerard Koskovich for sharing an unpublished interview with Hay and for information about Stanford in the 1930s. Rudi Gernreich preserved his notebook of early Mattachine Society meetings, and Oreste Pucciani allowed me to study it. Thanks also to Dr. Robert Christianson, Dorothy Doyle, Hal Fishman, Mike Furmanovsky, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Don Kilhefner, Dorr Legg, Freddie Paine, Miriam Sherman, and Don Slater. Will Roscoe spent entire days photocopying notes from his personal archives; for that and many hours of manuscript review and suggestions, I am deeply indebted. For sharing with me her notes and original source material on Will Geer, as well as her thesis on him, special thanks to Sally O. Norton.
This book absorbed hours of editing time. For their sound suggestions and support, thanks to Sasha Alyson, John Burnside, Craig Collins, Dorothy Doyle, Anthony Duignan-Cabrera, Fritz Frurip, Mike Furmanovsky, Bill Hill, Henry Holmes, Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Gerard Koskovich, Richard Labonte, Craig Lee, Joel Lorimer, Jim McGary, Jim Morrow, Carter Rose, Brad Rose, Peter Sigal, Faygele Singer, Bob Stacey, Mark Thompson, Joyce Timmons, Emily Timmons, Neal Twyford, Mickey Wheatley, and Walter Williams.
For sharp wits I often feared dulling through overuse, Devon Clayton, Bill Fishman, Jim Kepner, and the incomparable William Moritz have my sincerest gratitude. Those four taught me as much about friendship as about writing.
Thanks for sustaining encouragement to those mentioned above, as well as to my friends from the Radical Faeries, A Different Light Bookstore, and to gay community writers; to my mother, Joyce Timmons, who took me to my first protest in a stroller and has grown nearly as much as I have; to John Callahan, Bill Capobianco, John Fleck, Felidae Nemo, and Adrian Rodriguez, impeccable friends; and to Carter Rose, who showed me, finally, the Eros of my ways.
— S.T.