Perhaps Hay’s most spectacular achievement was his shrewd tactical move to portray homosexuals as a “minority” class, a crucial step in getting the wider liberal left to protect, accept, and ultimately advance them. Liberals are suckers for a minority movement that they are sympathetic to, and thus this worked masterfully, particularly as the left went secular, sexual, and cultural. “Without the idea of Gays as a cultural minority,” writes Roscoe, “there would be no Gay identity and no Lesbian/Gay movement today.” This “cultural minority thesis,” says Roscoe, has been Hay’s “most profound and lasting contribution.”540 Roscoe and many others would rightly call this a “profound contribution” by Harry Hay.