Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

flew into a rage beating his son with a razor strop in a futile attempt to get the boy to recant. She encouraged his early interest in and talent for music spending hours playing the piano and singing with him and arranging for piano and dance lessons. Over the next two years Hay refined his idea finally conceiving of an "international.

A longtime member of the Communist Party USA Hay's Marxist history led to his resignation from the Mattachine leadership in 1953. Hay's involvement in the gay movement became more informal after that although he did co-found the Los Angeles chapter of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969. (April 7 1912 – October 24 2002) was an English-born American labor advocate teacher and early leader in the American LGBT rights movement.