As the flag lowers on Pride Month 2023, we stand enlightened by yet another variation in the “LGBTQ” acronym, courtesy of America’s intrepid cultural revolutionaries. For a while, it evolved to “LGBTQIA+.” You know what LGBTQ stands for, but for those looking to keep up with the alphabet-soup du jour, the “IA+” addendum captured “intersex” and “asexual,” and the “+” cleverly captured, well, everything else. Thus, for the newest victim left out of the “LGBTQIA” acronym, such as, say, a gal who “identifies” as a bisexual-transgendered-wicca-whiptail lizard, she/he/they gets included, thanks to the “+” appellation.

The diversity of the rainbow umbrella never ceases to amaze in its generosity.

But alas, it was only a matter of time before certain “+” groups started shouting for a coveted spot within the acronym itself. That is to say, they would find it plainly intolerant if they didn’t have their own letter. Why, for instance, do “trans” and “queer” people get included — such as the charming self-identified “trans and queer nuns” of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who get both a “T” and a “Q” — but, say, “two-spirit” folks don’t get included?

What is that, you ask? Did I say “two-spirit?” Yes indeed, dear reader. Your faithful columnist said it. Two-spirit.

That brings me to the latest stirring of the alphabet soup. You may have noticed that the newest manifestation of the rainbow acronym is “LGBTQ2S+.”

At first, I was confused by that one. I asked myself what the “2S” stands for and pondered how those meanies squeezed out the “I” and “A” gangs. When I found out what “2S” stands for, I was immediately struck, knowing that I could render a great service to our readers — and, really, to all of America — complimentary of my sadly prodigious knowledge of things loony left.

Ladies and gentlemen, I, your humble columnist, and truly an American spectator, just happen to know a lot — let me say, too much — about this. I know about it because, amidst my toil and suffering in studying all bizarre things left-wing communist, years ago I came upon the pioneer of this two-spirit thing. 

He is Harry Hay, the pioneer of “gay communism.”

Meet the Two-Spirit Maker

I first wrote about Harry in my book Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage. I also wrote about him, at length, in my delightful Hallmark classic, The Devil and Karl Marx (where you can find many more highly disturbing details). I’ve read Hay’s memoirs and biographies of him, which, I caution, are not for the faint of heart. You can thank me, dear reader, for doing the intellectual heavy lifting to spare you.

Harry Hay (1912–2002) was a Marxist political-cultural activist, dubbed by his biographer, Stuart Timmons, the “founder of the modern gay movement.” His close friend Will Roscoe, an authority on that movement, called Harry the “founder of gay liberation.” As Roscoe notes, Hay hammered out a strange fusion of “Marxism, Native American revivalism, and New Age spirituality.” In all, this strange brew shaped Hay’s work to advance the gay and transgender movements. As we shall see, “two-spirit” was part of that.

Wikipedia, of course, often goes very soft on leftists. For Harry Hay, however, the Wikipedia entry for nearly 10 years running (I began checking it in 2014) has remained surprisingly consistent, starting right off with some of his more egregious affiliations:

Henry ‘Harry’ Hay Jr. (April 7, 1912 – October 24, 2002) was an American gay rights activist, NAMBLA activist, communist, and labor advocate. He was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States, as well as the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated gay spiritual movement.

Among these, some readers will recoil at the name “NAMBLA,” the acronym for the infamous North American Man/Boy Love Association. The name reflects what the group advocates. I’ll quote the Wikipedia entry for the group, which doesn’t shy from the truth:

The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophilia and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve what it considers coercion. 

Mercifully, NAMBLA alarms even many progressives and gay-rights advocates. It was founded by yet another communist, David Thorstad, onetime president of New York’s Gay Activists Alliance and member of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. Thorstad, who died in August 2021, openly talked about “enjoying” homosexual experiences starting at age 9. The Wikipedia page for Thorstad acknowledges his NAMBLA advocacy. It’s undeniable, of course.

The biographers of Harry Hay hasten to say that he wasn’t a member of NAMBLA, but they regretfully concede that he vigorously defended NAMBLA. That was because Harry was grateful to the adult male who aggressively gave Harry his first sexual experience. Harry said he had happily been this man’s “jail-bait.” That man allowed Harry to “come out” as a homosexual.

It was also an older homosexual man who brought Harry into the communist movement. That man was Will Geer, best known to Americans as “Grandpa Walton” on the hugely popular TV series The Waltons.

Harry met Geer in February 1934, as a fellow actor performing at a local theatre. He hopped into his ideological bosom and his bed. “I was madly in love with Bill [Will],” Harry told Stuart Timmons. Harry clung to Geer. When Geer married a woman, Harry was hysterical. When Geer died in April 1978, a jealous Harry confronted Geer’s wife at the funeral. A bitchy Harry snarled at the widow, “I had him first.”

The Geer relationship brought Harry to the breast of Communist Party USA, which he joined in 1934, merely a few months after hooking up with Geer. 

Thus began Harry’s hardcore left-wing activism, which, for him, was not only weirdly political but weirdly spiritual.

Harry launched a pagan political-environmental group called the “Radical Faeries.” “Many of us are pagan or follow a nature-based religion,” states the group’s website in the “About” section. The website has stated that dating back to at least June 2016, though the website today no longer includes the dedication page to the man it previously credited as the “Father of the Radical Faeries”: Harry Hay. The group starting in the 1970s had launched various “collectives” in rural areas and had launched its own publication, titled RFD: A Magazine for Country Faggots. Harry was a leader in those efforts.

As Timmons noted in his biography of Hay, the faery men gave themselves various neo-pagan names connected to Mother Earth and their view of Native-American spirituality, coated with a heaping top of gayness. These included personalized nicknames such as Morning Star, Rosy-Fingered Don, Flower, Marvelous Persimmon, Neon Snowflake, and “Judy Jetson” from the TV cartoon, The Jetsons. Harry and friends had an entire “Faerie Directory.” In all, Harry called this his “Fairy Vision” and urged his fellow radical faeries to spread their wings.

Many readers here will judge this stuff just plain barking-mad crazy and hence dismiss it as fatuous nonsense that does not merit being taken seriously. But that would be a big mistake, because Harry Hay’s vision is becoming part of everyday culture in today’s insane, unhinged, perverse America. And that brings me to “two-spirit.”

Harry Hay Pioneers ‘Two-Spirit’

The Radical Faeries’ positions included supporting a form of transgenderism called “two-spirit.” 

Interestingly, in 2020 (in The Devil and Karl Marx), I had written that this “two-spirit” thing should not be shrugged off as silliness by readers. I noted that, in 2016, it had become one of the 31 official gender-identity options approved by the New York City council for New York City public employees. I also noted how the likes of Facebook and the BBC were busily generating ever-expanding categories of “gender options.” Facebook had surpassed 70 gender options. A 2019 BBC instructional video for teaching kids claimed that there were “100, if not more” gender options.

So, Harry’s “two-spirit” was clearly on the rise, and now it has arrived. Here we are at Pride Month 2023, and two-spirit has soared to the level of now being part of the “LGBTQ”-extended acronym. 

Harry, you’ve come a long way, baby! 

For the record, the current Wikipedia entry for “Two-spirit” gives credit to Harry Hay, and also to Will Roscoe, or at least it does for now, until it’s cleaned up as Hay’s support of groups like NAMBLA becomes better known. “It is unclear who first coined the term two-spirit in English,” states Wikipedia, noting “the involvement of non-Native Will Roscoe who, like his also non-Native mentor Harry Hay, is involved in the hippie/counterculture gay men’s group, the Radical Faeries, a ‘non-Native community that emulates Native spirituality’ and engages in other forms of cultural appropriation.”

Hah, old Harry busted by his buddies on the Left for the sin of “cultural appropriation!” Nice. The Left eventually eats its own.

There is so much more I could say about Harry Hay, but my focus here is the “two-spirit” rise that he set off. His contributions to Marxism were cultural and sexual and gender-focused, even transgender focused. He was the full deal: a radical cultural-sexual-gender Marxist. He’s a perfect example of how classical Marxism has mushroomed into wild areas that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels could scarcely have imagined.

As for today’s “two-spirit” folk, you stand on the shoulders and fly on the wings of Harry Hay. And for those of you touting the new “LGBTQ2S+” acronym, hopefully this will give you some knowledge of the banner you’re waving. For the rest of America, already aghast at this junk, you can savor the latest bitter fruits of the Left’s cultural revolution.