Film

Hope Along the Wind: The Story of Harry Hay

2002 · 57m · Documentary

IMDb

6.5

Harry Hay was one of the founding fathers of the gay rights movement, and for more than 50 years was synonymous with the term "gay pride." Director Eric Slade's documentary about Hay looks at both his life and the movement he did so much to define. In 1948, Hay founded the Mattachine Society in Los Angeles; the goal of the organization was to establish a "Golden Brotherhood," one that sought to redefine homosexuality as a normal, healthy way of life. The problem, Hay famously maintained, was not homosexuality itself, but the way it was treated by society. Dramatizations, photographs, archival footage, and interviews with original Mattachine Society members are all incorporated to tell Hay's remarkable story, one whose legacy continues to be felt in the treatment of gays and lesbians in culture today.

Harry Hay

Self

William Dale Jennings

Self

John Burnside

Self

Urvashi Vaid

Self

Taylor Mali

Narrator

• Eric SladeDirector
• Jack WalshProducer
• Vivian KleimanExecutive Producer
• Marsha KahmDirector of Photography
• Philippe RoquesDirector of Photography
• Sophie E. ConstantinouDirector of Photography
• Dawn LogsdonEditor

Release date

August 4, 2002

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

57m

Genres

Documentary