Anarchist philosopher John Henry Mackay was rec ognized as an artist as well as a political thinker

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Anarchist phitosopher John Hensy Mackay was rec
ognized as an artist a well as a polities! thinker—his
cantormporary Richart Strauss set some of Mackay’s
pontry to music, He was alsa a founder of modern
gay liberation, offering a radical challenge to col-
league Magnus Hirschtield’s teadership. Finally
Mackay was a lover of adatuscent boys who created
2 body of literature, The BOOKS of the Ne

‘exploring his sexual feelings. Hubert Kennedy's ap-
prociation of Mackay reveals haw the philosopher's
‘ove of boys influenced iis politcal thinking and now
‘9 lived out his potties and philosophy in his sie
with boys.
Anarchist of Love
The Secret Life of John terry Mackay

by Hubert Kennedy
Revised and Expanded Edition
‘This revised and grently expanded version of Arurchist of
Loves The Secret Life of John Henry Mackay (New York: Mackay
Society, 1983) Is published simultaneously as NAMBLA Ty
ies #3 by the North American Man/Boy Love Association
(PO Box 174, New York, NY 10018). A revised German edi-
tion, translated by Almuth Carstens, was published as Anar-
hist der Liebe: Jolin Henry Mackay als Sagitta (Berlin: Jochen
Knoblauch Verlag, 1986). Fusther additions have been made
for the present edition

© Hubert Kennedy, 1996,

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“| wes SAGITTA® ‘

1.9m the attow that springs from the sting,
‘Whitrig through the night of tine (ring—
‘Toall heoking, hte courage, these comfort, beings
Chicaling, aot desth—“Vour hea Tsing
Tam SAGITTAL
Know: the ari am [
Which cures ur kill
Stayl—or—avay Oyl

(On 6 October 1809, afer nineteen months vf exal progoedings,
‘the punter of the Gceman sate moved to eeu the fit deliberate
sul sel-avsre campaign it cada rca ¢o gaip public understand.
ing af man-hoy lave. ln spice of havieg one of the best defence
lawyers io Germany, and m spite of expen witzwsscs ofthe fi rank.
(including M4, Coral, Aled Ker, Hane Land, and Pramp Wille}

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to tenily w the patty and anietie volue ofthe wot, three publica-
dons of the cseadenymow Sayitta weee declued “obxcene writings”
and ondened distroye. Que of the julges even comoeded that these
sweee "works in 2 complerely artistic form," hur apparently thewe waz
a ned frow the Minter uf Jutice as io which way the decision
should go, The publics, who continued te preserve the anorymity
of the author, was fined mud usenet coun cts, but to fact afl eos
were paid by Sogitta—in reality the Genman weiter Joka Henry
Mackay.

“Madory wrene to hit American friend Benjamin R, Tucker that
‘he anus ute amounted to around 1,000 marks and that all po-
sethor the whole affair had ener hun abut 6,300 wasks—the equiva
fen of at lens $30,000 in tuts eurency (Dear Tucker 42; refer.
ences re tLe li. of Works Cited 2t the end of this cas). More
tan the moncy, Mackay felt the less ef his stragyle for esp rights
for mar-hay love. He reealkel uu day ate ext deprosing of bis
fe, ble was living in Berlin at the time, and after hearing the court's
decision, be wandered slome in forest um the edge of the city.
“Never hefore in mr lie, so axcustimned indcod vo al be sorrows of
femetiness, oud [felt uyéelf so abandoned yall asin this hour
19s ae hour such as ic pohly Faw omy to bia wy bas tae
Thi life ann come ura run ees his fe Inst with it” (Ferny Staller
152). He woandeeed throughout the night, gradually recovering his
strength (rom the knowledge that he hal dome slat he fad 1 do,
ara with the dawn be rctumed to the city unl a new day. “And as |
read the eternal confirmation of this love in the trusting and pure
eyes of ay bog, he foond me calm and cheenfl ws always? (Henny
‘Siler 153).

a fack, Mackay did not give up his stropale, bt found the
surcegth to complete his project of wring six “Hooks of Ure Numer
keg Line” resting win-boy lowe i vathous Literary forms, and these
were yublsbod ia one voluaie in 1913 (with » second edition in.
1974), As Sagites, Mackay slo publihed 1926 a my novel (reat-
ing the lie of erage bustier: fu, Belin ju ae 1920s,

‘The Soatush matine insurance broker Joho Fanyuhar Mackay
uated Luise Auguste Ehlers in Hauuburg om 21 Marci 1863. Less

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than » you ter hei fit wo only hl, Jol leary was bum on
6 Februagy 1864 in Greenock, Scotland, city an the Fit of Cipde
ont rmcary ile ftom Gigs Tae boy was only ningtcen sell,
old, umeves, wien his her did and his macher recur with er
ung son to her nave Gemany! When he was nine yey old she
Inattied a widewes, who wep hal 2 2on Mackay’ age. Mackay ze
trained devotes so fle mother (sbe ded shen he was thiny-eight
ean old), but sellin with bis stepfather, Aled Duascichce, 2
Prasian alfcal, wore col and he di not pt lena at all wth his
new brother. This he wos happy to aed the Gymnas Chih
fcheool ia another tewm, where fe lived wx boarier wih iether
fail, Alnoh lie cw in Geen, with Goran as his ther
tongue, Mackay dit rot become nicualized until sround the tur of
the century, fter he fae decile no seule peruimently in Bain
{Poke 3)

Mackay kei selwiel in 1883 and sgcot a year a4 2n apprentice
‘eih a publishing boos. This wi followed fy five sours am 4
aniveity tect (in Kil, Tip, aa Pelin), bur ony ns sai-
tox Unsatisfied by those actives he ined u lose, ur cubes, fad
Irimeelf a trivel, Hi mother was of a well-co-do merchant fail.
and alowed hi an manual ine suliien. uy Ke et 1900 he
tecrived lap sum fom her and he inherited more on her death im
1902, 1911, on the advice of his American Grend Benjamin
“Tucks, he ised the emining money 10 purchase a ilevime annuity
(Mackay, Dear Ficker 84), law Mackay ald ndepeadcoly puso
his duike of eaves, an fem an carly age he etwas considered
Tinsel writes

rom spring 1887 1 spring 1888 Mackay wasn Land, where
tae tum to te efi in his seach for socal philesanb. nthe
spring of 1888 he seed in the que! now oF umschadh in Site”
fan to digo his Loui yeas. The ist suk was che publication
tha year of a Yolunc of anarchist vere, Sum (Shera), while ad
several ater eons sogerer, ne Ui 20,00 copies wer primed
in Mckay beta, Ue then gave his impressions of his Tonwion
eat in Die Avechem:Kedagertbe as dem Ende dey XIX dudes
(he Anamhisss A Peruse! Clsaion athe Che ofthe Nive-

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peated in 1801 andl waa yb
tae im Fgh he Ute
Stale: thal same year iL om
Inter renslated ito cist othr
Janguayer: Cerub, Dutch,
Trench, Halian, Rusian, Sa
sh, Swed, Yidfsh.

By this tie Macy bad
rend Mix Stirnee’ book, Dev
tee nd ei Frou (gub-
ls a Eolas te tile
“The Eg and Fis Or), i
passed wilh Ser emecuent
‘ith hie man position ofc
wluait anarchy od ad
determined te recall the “lox”
figure of Mux Stimer (the
ronlonyis of Joloom Kespar
Selah, 1906-56] elicit
teat. This labor of love wie
Mackay much rime and
ay, for Ie cartel tracked wm and collected alt eercncce to
Stier and is wings. (Mackay’ colette uf swan 750 boo aout
caer tenis vaso i 1925 tothe Mire-Engels Inte in Mice
om, after unuccessal acs 10 slit wo Ue Lahey of Congres
jn Washingan, the Kew York Flic brary, Jesealem, and even,
Japan.) Mackay’sbiosaphy, Max Seer: Sei Leben und sen Werke
{Mix Stimer: His Life and Us Work, was published in 1898, Inthe
meat he had established contact with American anachiss and
‘steal sevend of thew bing « thresnoneh trp to the United
States in the fall of 1893. fx her sotubisgaphy, Eom Golda
reeled tamching sith in on 28 Septcmbc, the Bsc day of het
New York al for “iting 10 roe” (1129) Mack hee x ifetine
fricrdship ith Benjamin R. Ticker (1854-1939), to whoa he deli
<aced Der Frbisucher (The Precdsaseeker} in 1970

‘Maohay. rom ine Amercan eaten
te Arcane 19

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By hc Lure of the oacuey Mackay hal spent extended periods
in sevens large citi: of Europes Hedin, Loren, Pais, Rome, Zatch,
He retuenod Lo Pelin in 1892 to complere bis meseurch om Seamer
and settle these permanent in 1894. But he oantinved to travel
‘uceasionally and there are echoes of souse of his expetiences with.
‘be crn bis Lriy'to Pais for the Irtemational Exposition of 1900,
fn the peut later peblished by Saptta, a& well es in the lngely
autobiographical novel Fency Ske, abso by Saitla—to whose sory

Mackay was swely sue nf his aexonl orlencanion by 1846, but
fe moe nin danke the ageurane Usa. ycar of Richard von Kis
Bhingh Bsachyathia seals which allowed him to "came ont” ea
bins’, Tle described his reading uf the bunk in his nwwol Fenny
Staller:

Pt be dows num raow ase Uinge Thete are others Uke
bint Llc 38 1p Tongor alone among people, no langer lene on.
this earth! Nowe i «10 Be bi coo, chs earth, and he sls ro
love om il, . AL would sill have been quite impossible for
hi to tal to another persan. Bur be kept silent no longer
svithan bimsef, and frou thea an ao lenge silent about hs
love, (0-1)

“That ws te aly Using lie Iagned ftom the book, however, forthe
zest outeaged hin: :

He mnderivod anly so much: they had locked up his
love i scienoo' was-figurecahiner af monsters, deformities,
ant monstrosities ut all Kinds—iove they had als elasfied
bhi among people with whom he had nerbing in common,
and cout rnd wemld have mousing int cosntnom. (41)

Unite Magner: Hinchield (1868-1035), Macha bad no exple
ration for his deviaivn from Uie nove Ue eae np need for an
explain and, eeling himsclf to be entinely many, he emphar-
colly rected HLischfelds development nf the "tind sex? dheory of

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Karl Hetucch Ubi (anima mich vit sompre inches’ —a
women's payche confined in a mais budy}—a doory that besut-
folly 6 “Tante Magresia® (Blther 133)-He al rejected the eara-
eign of che Scicnific Hammitation Comaaites, kad by Maru
Himchield, to obsain a modification of 8175 of the Gezaum Penal
(Code 60 ast allow sex aaiviy between sae sox adult, fo be
nhkd:nor woo. hi tactic of gaining a libealsaton ofthe arttho-
fnucextal [rw at the expense ofa igheening ap of agt-of cansent
fegilina, the Lactic uf those who sought to ace themselres up
peat respoctable by daa mwn-boy love. Having coae nko con-
tact im erin with a few other orca wha shared his view be deter
sina t launch his own campaign for a better undentanding of the
sman-boy Tove ise.

Jr unlikely chat. any of Macy’ colleagues know uf bis iter
cot in bogs bse the death of his mace in 1902, Je probably a
pe coincidence that in the play by Amo Hols Seciristokruten
{Social Arstozay, 1697) Bellewann who pattems she Mackay
sox (Bellemann—ike Mackay-—<tness abit: “These isa charge
gait a. me ti, R. vided, Te for breaking the hw
ir chee” (ol 6), Bu Tol proved tobe propbati, fri
1908 etl that change as browsht apie. Mack

“The cosineiacm tht Mackay gave io his ew endeavors poly
sxplimed by bis long deptssion following the death of ls mcnber
i 1902. (ts devotion to beri shown in bs late coaument: "it &
or te da Hee Leah. Then: ae wonods thot meric quire heal
vee” TAbnechng 41). Fors hag tme fe et ts, ad the, 8 be
later calle: “inthe dale of my ie a task are, Hl a deliver
sce ta new gual; i ea too carly to speak of cas late as it
dlncary 2)" UUrreirane 41).That wa wen io 1932 we can ony
‘ronser why he emsined unwilling to seve his Wenbty ws Sata
rea. Ida srl Boor his death in 133 Maclay wrote it
“Ausericat tin Bengomin Teche (ln Kage Tasker dt mot
reed Clean): * Bl ner bik use vel of Segita. One of these ina
zone couumunitic popets dd ft, some years wpe, to bur me, and
‘0 i ea open Sects” (Dear Ticker 183) at, is ids ad
tea neve in pnt as carly at 1923 by Emi Saya (155) anc

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suet have heen witely known seach cavlion leat smong ho-
smosesed cintes ata wel ofthe leg res: azz hie Sagitea
books

“The police enn supe Uta Mackay wax Sota for they
searched bis hous acveral times forthe Sogita oaks it 1908. They
‘hu Bk ery nowene. fon Macy hep the Sagi eer
a suall room out his agartueal, with a seyaale entrance Chat
spend toler rhe ate (Dobe £9). They ny hve bozn promoted
by theft. that Heme Zac, gubtinher ofthe Sagitn ooky had
ab bora ts pusber of MachayS srks of nine panhlets,"Propa-
fads ds indiriduaitechen Anarchimns in demecher Sprache"
{Bropapeda of Lnividut Anarhioe ic the Geruun Lang)
which weec transations, moely by Mackay, of wvtings by Tucker
nd éthem. The dzcovery the. Mackay was Sagina wok! certinly
brave delighted he police! Indeed, Mackay’ Giend Prodzics Dobe
reported that Mackey gave as hit teason for sing pacrongen hia
eon: Ly svoid Lining the anc ens:

‘The fighter forthe nameless love who know how deenly
his was alrays doagged shroueT the nual wanded by mo meas
Uat thom’ iis eanneetion with bis poren Uke cause of
freedom, anarchy, akg would be dragged in the moet and
exqeeed 10 mu abisoudertandings— sexuedling hat wool
oulwless have hapnened, since Uney had no dent weapan,
agains. this lumurable ightee (Dobe 3)

Mackay worked ont hit plan fir the "Books of the Nameless
are in. 1905, Iu he fist append ax Sagtta with four poeuss in
Dev Bigene that yeat (a fifth pocm appeared there in 1906), Begun im
1896 as an. anarchist journal that reflected the philosophy of Max
Stitner (Tier Rigene” = “The Sel yer” im the meaning given
that wend by Skimer®, Der Bigme teva zat openty howeneau
journal from 1898. As such it enntinued, with occasional interrup-
rims (wuatly dee 0 pice inderfereu), ints the 1950s, aking i
the Rist succesful gay journal’. Mackays Sesitta pooms appeatod in
the fier half of 1905. Nama Pretorius (preadompun of Eugen Daniel

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Wilhelm, 1866-1951), in a review of ha yoar of Der Eigene, wro.:

‘The pmatas of Sagi are dhe the fst place, hiweret,
pincipally the two reins "Dor Fremde” [he Suranges, im
‘which the fore of che sentinel Uullingly bares ltl i
Tively dactylie rhyrhuns, and "Tie Tere” [The Dood, in which
snelanchaly, lps, and Innging for ue loved ome fhow in.
strung manly vere. (590)

‘Mackay wae ¢0 derecmine wo keep his identiry as Sala secret
dust he did noe revesl u. even co Adolf Bran (2874-1945), mb
Ficherof Der Figne, In fac, he had all ermeundence sent to Hud
from Dresden in ute handeriting af his good friend, the Dresden
cress Luise Fre (1865-1942). Bat Drand soon guessed wlio Segtta
swas, fon, by coincidence, a, Ube same time a. be xoceived the fist
Sagita poem, We zeal an earlier poe hy, Mackey, hich he
reletely recognize’ as treasmy man-boy lave, anul save Uic esem=
blance af the two. Hos spiclon was coufimned during che Saginna
tral, when one of Mackay’: cera exper wimesses, Enno Wl
Jet dip to Brand that he had appearod at the “Mackag-Provess”
‘Kemal, "Das Geheinatis von Sagita” 113,

"Mackay planted the Sagi project af a seres of writings in
vatious literary forms witl the common title "Die Duccher der
rrsinenlaven Lishe” (The Books of the Nameless Love). He rejected
Af the ewedical, legal, and) morale vets of the day aad always
Spoke uf ile "aaroeless love.” probable being influenced by the ex
presion, "the love tha dart mut speak sts name.” made éanout by
sear Walle a. his tial im 1295, Brand later relled that Mackey
Fond sleon a that time “ntation anu imteage over the jason. of
Oscar Wilde” (Kenneds, "Dae Geleimnis von Sagi” LU)

Mackay saw his task se ove-fol: co pain suppamt feom men like
hirnself, and thee t0 take his cause ¢9 tbe public. He theme che
Tits tsk wom e easier, for he Eelieved chere were cumny who hae
sufcsed ws had and were only waiting fora spokesman. He chine
to act anonpmonily, fr be cefon given above and also bevisse he
knew how enily a single publi voice can be enishied, Editions of

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1000 were planned for che books, 10 be brought out two a year and
okt by subscerpion gaily. The fin. invitation Wie sent our aa 1
Aupust 1805 for the fi uw, which then wppeared in 1906: Die
eenbose Leb, et Bekenniiss (The Nawolesa Love, a Cased, 29
rages) snd Wier nd i Eine Lchemg der namenlasen Licbe von Sagat
(Sho ace we? A Poem of dhe Neweles Love hy Sagcta, 62 pages).
Macka was carefil co ak each subscriber to sin « stateraent that
dhe would not be offended smd thar the book was for private te oly,

he response to this offering wis wo sabe Unt fen Be seme out
Fhe inviration cn 1 July 1906 forthe next aro hooks, he noted that
the project could not cumiinny waliss more people subscibed, But
Aespite the ‘her that his list of arbeeses continued te grow Che
‘number of subscribers was so-stall that further publication wat im
poesible and le cv his sauggle ere before i had band heen,

‘Mackay leer complained that these books were never reviewed,
font wt face there were a few reviews. Wilhelm [laramer veponved om
them in the Monatsschr for Hemboankbeten, Peychopsohis emule
snd sencle Hagine (Monthly for Urinary Diseases, Sexual Piycho-
pathology, and Sexust Fygiene) in 1997, and an exconpl fhm lis
report yas given char year in the Monausbenh: des Wisenschopic-
aruanttren Komizes (Momthly Report of che Scicatfic [tuneattar-
jan Covneiltee)

TTrom chese volumes these no Jonge sims the faust
ing voice of the sick heszing for symroth, but sather the
ump of ball conscious of his ga, the pret attacks the
reaching of the Cheistian church ankl the ascelis preaching
ictory over sell The sound volume clely descrtbee the
love ofthe man who Fels hieasclF draw Lo yous, aa every
day stony and et meaningfel thigh rhe meness to Tie
vith which Saga is able la sepaudune his felings. The
author hes constly recognized tbat dora, iv uke nverage
deta are alo samnearx drives, which can be awakcned Ww
lowing (lames. The experienues of sulin, the ebservations
ff prison doctovs confirm the comcciness uf dhs satement
(emacsberile 6136)
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Despite this avumable view ofthe author, who was lac described by
“Himchfetd we "Dr, med. ct phil et jur- Wilheu Hammer, who offen,
Goquented dhe Camunutier at that tira” {Von ena Bete 177) he
tumclided on a rathee arohigvous atl anrealintic nove:

‘On the other hand, in ny opinion it mus. be shamply
‘cptusied thet samoses love, $0 Lng 25 it remains within
rmexicrate Lis, is row contlemned! by pastors but eer is
tolerated as ficnsbip, yes even humoral, and chat the Kel
scholars of 8175 of the Germad Pots Cede eject. only the
ccrudkst forms of activity and do vor do. aeay with abe
[dendsips thar hold themselves dan. fro ri senso

Anuather review we published ia.1908 in Hirgchfld’s new
‘aici for Secuabssenschafe Grrrl for Sexual Science), wa this
rine the author was much fess spopathetiesS

Segitta i an artist, mud his amistié Creed (Book 2)
cand, apa. fom all mestical disor on cle basis of the
puely hunwan inva. fn apts oftn of tne besiny the
broken strengrh of his longing sats. Why must he love this
owly beighit Nunc, which oily it, is mafuhomable, Ue
legs, amd the pain tees with hin, .

‘A complete poem i 3 vision tbat recites neither an
excuse wor 2 juification nor yot 3 polemic. Therfine find
the prise of the fe hock superfluous. Nor will Une pple
that he i now sealing nt (Geboer! New einen Augenblick! Ein.
‘Schvei (Listen! Only a Momeet! A Cryf) gain (ox hin the
expected new fice, Icmploringly attempts on the bass of
cstheties and altruistic morality, a quixolis balls agains the
pial instincts of mankind. A rity far the wastod effort,
(Kind 248)

Mackay’s clos: iced Herbert Stepemsnn wrote a long and

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plowing review that conchubes

“The grea percenvion, thar all happiness, alo a Tove,
sts on che unliauted Frecdom of our natura! inclinacions,
rises up ike win, snes itn kane faces wl cass hea
ing tight over che shabbincss of ou spstesaationd ard com-
fined existence; then we feel tho, here # genuine poet
lsclning to 19 lis latest wisdom and that chore is uy t
Tisten 10 him in que reverence, It is no wine to everyone
wo feel Ue fove of Sapitta én hit ome soul. But i is dhe
prerogative of at to change the one-sdedness of hanna ex-
fence into infinity and uy eabe us op abuve the manow
hous of our pessonalicg inca che sphuere of uotimited gate,
jonderstanding, and enjoyment

And in the Manasberche of Agni 1907, Hirschfeld had men
toned the two publications of Sayin:

“This Greular sas sent out with several proepecrnnes of the
poe of Sagisia by their polisher. This unnamed but not
inknown anilor is geealy omgry with our Committee be-
cause we had w esplain, in response to the repeated insie-
tence of his publisher, that i is not our reco ponticipate in
the marketing and advertising uf is poetry cullestions fhe
manner wisteal. (6: 62)

Indeed, Mackay was “greatly angry" with Hirschfeld, but not
forthe ceagon Himeleld gare, and Hirschfeld, who knew peefocsly
wel chat these wore not “poetry collotions,” only further confused
the igye in a Report in a Ister Mononsterich

‘The books published by Sagits ate not, 2 we eronenusly
‘exguessed iin our Repon before the last one, *pocms,” but
satlcr poetic wotks and fiction (ox creeds and scenes in prese)
‘We emphasize this since the pblisher expressed the opinion
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vwamied to bare the dseibution of Une hauls.” 6: 116)

‘Mackay’: Sagita project was moet dizcely alltel hy the sae
called "Fulenburg aff,” which bad is beginning wath an article of
Maccmilian Hasten in the independent weekly Die Zaku um U7
‘Nowewer 1906 sod which cventvally lad Mackay to publish the
ample, Gehoer, mentiovod (above) by Alle Kin, Hot Mackay’
efintive broke wit Hemefelé came already a aucuth easter ama
foe other ressons, Because uf HibachfelUs ieaportance for Une easly
history of the pay movement. the caeclion of Mackey with the
Scicwtiic Humanitarion Commaittee (STIC) is wouth dicing.

Tr has hoon known tliat Mackey was an cathy signer of
Ulises *Vtaiuen te rhe Lagislacive Bodies of ke CGennan Fim
pire” fora revision of The anliunnosewal §175 (his name a peared
i ube fost lse publica in 1899, where hic address was givers 38
Zutich, although he was already loving io. Berlin at Use Unue [Peri
tion” 256)}. but ic has no. been generally care that Be als at
tended! sessions of the SUIC, This a: revealed p memcit by his
Tonetiwe frieul Friedrich Dobe, written in 1244, but aut ynbtished
mil 1987. Hobe Fit met Mackay in Apsil 1905 a an evening at
ic home of Mackay: pod friend. the wealthy iadeyendent selaar
Henesict Friender (1866-1908). “AL it » young medical studcau
snauwed Hartwig real a tome poem of his Ua was inspired by a decp
but unhappy love fr wonger friend. Mackay nad conse precisely
for this eason” (Robe 53}, Although De ane Torti were boos
‘onexLy years singer than. Mackag, lac Unvee were ea become good
Feienls. Lancy, dus ws Friedlander severe Hees (Qyrenteny), hese
evenings took pee in arbors’ hom, a few tines at Mackey’, bat
then in che club ryuns a small raver next co Mackay’ lunge i
Charlorenburg” Dobe compas the evening: to Plates "Sympo-
sium”: “Whoever Iie young friend brougbt iu akmg (54). (He
names only owe oiler men soho plage a sole in seve evening:
Wilhelm Janson and Mackay's feud, he exicer Walther Lleincil,
swhis died Rome in 1939.)6

was Friedlander who interested Lobe in the SHC, whose.
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TWimsclf lectured several times. The ast gosiint he wd Mackay 2
tended was on 14 Octeher 1906 at Hitschfeld’s howe, Friedhinder
‘vas t00 ill to attend, bos had enteustod Dobe ith bas wafuomation.
Ax Chainwan oC the Advisory Committee, Fuedlnder had nor ante
Inieed objectione to Hirschfeld theory of ommexnullty (his so
calle shesny of scaual intrmesises), du aleo objected ea his han-
dling ofthe finanece of the SHC, Unknovn to Erodtindcr’s fins,
necfeld lid walled (oe an informal meevioy uf Yas oven supporters

acto, date neat

ke evening before co propre rier espome, The ssult, as ported
by Tlrgchied, 6:

‘The General Ascombls almost woanigaously accepted the pm-
posal of rhe fr embers of the Administrative Commitee
pment, Prof, Wir, De M. Hinchfeld. De Merdbach, and

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Hubert Kennedy

De». Rewer, ty the effet at alemy with the sinmitancous
dtssoluion of the. Advisory Committce the number of ube
Aduinistralive Conmities was gradually ter be doubled.
(Monatsberice 5+ 202)

‘Ths Hnschicld wos able co elininale Feidluka’s allan with
‘ws. even having to nae him,

Maclay was outraged at the tactic. As reported by Dole

Mackay rose in protest and Tfollowed. Hinefel dip-
lewacally eanted fo intersene and not Ket us out of the
alway chu house. 1 il se hina before ue ashe ise is
arms and implored, “My dear Mackay?® Bo. Mackey, red.
faced inh wages flee at hie "TIT break che slat in che door,
sf you don't et ws oul 152)

Mackay’ coe [rien Herbeet Slegeusann wx with them and
the thie etiea-to a lavcea to dicate Uhe wilter, Deke call thir
the “hitth hone” of what Friedlinder named the “Sorcssion des
Wisenscballich-bunanittien Kouiits” (eorsion of the Seien-
tific Humanitarian Commnittec) I fat, the Sooession was onyanie
swith Stepeuum as President and attracted some members of the
criginal SUC. Dut it depended on the mapper of FriedEinder smal
‘quictly diod out after hie death on 21 Junc 1908, Also contbuting
to ts demise were the public “scandals” of the so-called Eulenbure
alli brs abu fected the SHC ind the reception of Mackay
‘Sofitta wetings, This cvcat bas been suasmarized as follows iv the:
teaalyg uf the 1984 exhibition of the Besliische Galerie “Reslin um
1900:

In his rele agains the court camarills, Maximilian
arden, whose podiuus was the joumal Die Zula, which
‘ws fame i 1892, disectod an accusation of homosxual-
ity in 1906 agaiust Prince Philipp Halenburg, close coefi-
dant of Wikela MY, and against the pexsonal adjuane of the

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ANARCHIST OF LOVE

‘omperon, the Commanding General of Beatin Com Kum
Moltke. Moltle's cme of likel led to a discussion of his
private life ju cou, amit the lively yxaticipalion of hie
scusation-hunaey press; foue members of the upger nobility
Fuad ro subane edt reignations, (Asmus 46; see alo Steakle,
“Taowgalty"?

Mackay bal plane Lo brine hs cause 10 the alteation of
the most interstel pemun! ist before moving to any public diseus-
son, but now after centucis of silence, the subject ws being dis-
‘cussed everresiere, andin the worst possible way for boy-lover. As
‘Mackag said: "We were again—as always—the ones who were hit
‘the hardest im our love” (Fenny Skaller 142), He detenimed to enter
‘the Fray.

‘One of the nbjcrians ro the orginal Sagitta project was the
prior ofthe beds. Mackay decidal on a cheap pamphlet, which hie
sent out Lowand the endl of 1907 to the nearfy 1000 acest be ad
collected, With i ar over leltee appealing for lc in making
Use pamghlet widely available. The pamphlet was Gehoer! Nur afven
Augenblld (Litent Only a Memeor’). In it Mackay tied to bring
ragetber all Lhe objections to mia-boy. lose andl to give them an
nrwer. He wrote te bis fend Benjamin R. Tucker: “Nothing beter,
and alma all in short words, can si about this Tove T have vim
his pamphlet” (Dear Ticker 19). He set. see conditions for the
ppacshler: (1) 1, must be immune fom, censorship (2) it must bo
able to bo tinderstoad by anyone; and (3) it must-be efietive. He
reas confident he had swisied rhe fis. reo conditions bul be was
to he frwizted again,

Mackay was immediately dizrpeiinted im the cull eesponse
te his loiter, bur with rhe Fmancial help of his cote (rend Benedict
Frnedindes, 3H copies wvte sent out, of which 1200 went, at
Friedltnder’s expressed wish, to the heads of the Hvangelical
(thesen) Boye Cluhs in Genny, atl tbe remainder went to eaent-
bes of pastianent, co public and private Ubrarics, and other institu
tions. In addition, Maclay bantelf pad (or another 1000 review
copies, to be sent lo newspapers and magacioes—“nesdles: (0 5%

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