NAMBLA is the elephant in the room that gays and their supporters wish
to ignore. Those of us who value decency cannot.
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In noting the passing of Harry Hay — the man who first organized
homosexuals as a political minority — no mainstream media outlets
reported that Hay was an advocate of pedophile rights and the
notorious group NAMBLA.
NAMBLA is the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a group that
advocates for the legalization of sex between men and boys, and an end
to all "age of consent" laws.
Hay, who died on October 24, at age 90, formed the first American
homosexual activist group, the Mattachine Society, in 1950. He
conceived of the idea of organizing homosexuals at a time when most
were afraid to even be discovered as such. Hay was also a committed
Communist who married to hide his homosexuality so that he could join
the Party.
He went on to found The Radical Faeries, a shamanistic spirituality
movement for homosexual men. "Gay pride" parades frequently include
local contingents of "Faeries" — semi-naked men prancing and dancing
in variations of Native American rituals.
Hay strongly opposed the notion that "gays" should assimilate into
larger "straight" culture. Thus, in the eighties and nineties, when
homosexual activists began banning NAMBLA from "gay pride" parades to
clean up their public image, he and other "gay" liberationists were
outraged.
In 1994, Hay, then in his eighties, was among the signers of a "Spirit
of Stonewall" proclamation that argued that efforts to ban NAMBLA from
the New York "pride" parade violated the spirit of the original
Stonewall "rebellion," which is revered by homosexual activists as the
spark of the modern "gay rights" movement. (In 1969, homosexuals and
others then regarded as deviants rioted in response to a police
crackdown of the Stonewall Inn in New York City.)
The Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) declaration read in part:
Stonewall was the spontaneous action of marginal people oppressed by
the mainstream — of teenaged drag queens, pederasts, transsexuals,
hustlers, and others despised by respectable straights and "discreet"
homosexuals. …
SOS is an ad hoc committee of lesbian, gay and other individuals and
groups formed to bring Stonewall 25 [celebrating the 25th anniversary
of the riots] back to the principles of gay liberation. We focus on
one of the most glaring departures from those principles: the attempt
to exclude [NAMBLA] . …
NAMBLA's record as a responsible gay organization is well known.
NAMBLA was spawned by the gay community and has been in every major
gay and lesbian march. … NAMBLA's call for the abolition of age of
consent is not the issue. NAMBLA is a bona fide participant in the gay
and lesbian movement. NAMBLA deserves strong support in its rights of
free speech and association and its members' protection from
discrimination and bashing.
J Young
jdyo...@ymail.com