# Harry Hay on 19th century Remittance Men

A short clip from a longer 1996 interview with Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay in which he describes the common 19th century phenomenon of "Remittance Men." They were the outcast, typically gay, children of well-off families who were sent "as far away as possible," i.e. to San Francisco or Vancouver, where they could carry on their lives without shaming the families...

- Kind: Short
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Shaping San Francisco
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/HarryHayOn19thCenturyRemittanceMen)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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