ABSTRACT
Dale Jennings is frequently mentioned in the annals of gay American history, but the references are often pointed and brief. He is listed as one of the founders of the Mattachine Society, a cohort of Harry Hay. At his death he was lauded as the “Rosa Parks of the gay rights movement” for having prevailed in the first court case in the United States in which a man admitted in court to being a homosexual yet successfully fought charges of lewd conduct in a public space. He helped found ONE, the first successful magazine in the United States dedicated to equal rights for homosexuals, and was briefly senior editor as well as a significant contributor under his own name and various pseudonyms
