Interview by Raj Ayyar                    GAYTODAY.com

His pioneering book Society and the Healthy Homosexual first published in 1972, sent ripples of shock, disbelief and plain hostility through the community of professional American psychologists. George challenged the conventional notion of homosexuality as a disease and gave gay men and lesbians everywhere a solid theoretical basis for dignity and pride. The Oxford English Dictionary credits George Weinberg with coining the term 'homophobia' which is now a recognized term in the vocabulary of social theory and gay activism alike.

New York Times

October 30, 2002

Gay History Is Still in the Closet

By Richard Goldstein

At a time when any gathering of more than two homosexuals was a crime in California, Mr. Hay...

Henry "Harry" Hay,

a pioneering activist in the gay rights movement some six decades before the word "gay" came to be used interchangeably with "homosexual," has died in San Francisco. He was 90.