An Open Response to LGBT Misconceptions
We respond to South Florida Gay News' perfunctory dismissal of intergenerational relationships. (more)
NOTICE: It
has recently come to our attention that one or more persons are using
the word NAMBLA as part of an identifier on Twitter. We want to make it perfectly clear that our organization
does not participate in any on-line social media, has
never done so, and never will. Anyone using our name should be reported
to the site for a violation of their terms-of-service.
Gay Marriage
- an opinion piece by Peter Herman
Reluctant
congratulations may be in order for the beneficiaries of New York
State's gay marriage bill. Though marriage is not everybody's thing,
one can understand the aspirations of those who long for social
acceptance and for the open recognition of their love and choice of
partners. I say reluctant because it is quite clear that a good segment
of the gay community had to be co-opted by government to achieve their
current but tenuous degree of acceptance and, now, the dubious
privilege of attaching the word "marriage" to civil unions that
would otherwise have had all the same privileges and
responsibilities.
In aping the heterosexual lifestyle ("We're
just like everybody else except for our choice of partners.")
much of the gay leadership has cast overboard those they felt to be a
liability. They would also disown, were they alive today, the likes
of Allan Ginsberg, Oscar Wilde, Socrates and many other
such luminaries and icons of civilization. Even if we do not agree with
the assimilationist aspirations of those seeking gay marriages, we can
admire the steadfastness of those who struggled to achieve
their goal. Were they only to grant the same tolerance for the love
that does dare to speak its name, the same love celebrated in the
art and poetry of many cultures, the love between man and boy that was
once synonymous with forbidden homosexuality.
The opponents of
gay marriages, including hypocrites in the Catholic Church, claimed to
know what is natural and what the word of their variously characterized
gods is. These naysayers are certainly entitled to their opinions but
they fail to grasp that these are far from universal.
For those
who would deny the expression of mutually felt love and affection, we
say believe what you will but do not invent harm where there is none.
Zeitgeist
A new
regular column with links to things worth reading about. (more ...)
A Truly
Odious Ruling
The Catch-22 is officially
enshrined in New
Jersey state law. (more ... )
The
American
Psikhushka
The pseudo-scientific
justifications for
the irrational treatment of man/boy love have precedents. (more ... )
Scott
Brown's
Story Reveals America's Greatest
Concerns For Child Abuse
Why does physical abuse of
children seem to
be an afterthought to the U.S. media? An opinion piece by
Eric
Tazelaar (more ... )
Is Fox
Gullible?
Somebody
didn't
do their homework (more
... )
The Lie Of
Freedom
Versus the
Truth Of Family
A
remembrance of a Nobel
Prize winner persecuted for loving boys (more ... )
Guilt By
Association, Twice Removed
The rightwing media elements are at it again. One of their
most
recent attacks has been aimed at Kevin Jennings, the Safe Schools Czar
nominee. (more
... )
Walking
the Line (again)
Years ago, members of NAMBLA had the audacity to demonstrate
in front of Bridgewater State Hospital. The demonstrators
marched
with signs denouncing the treatment of men being held for consensual
relationships outlawed by the state. (more
... )
Prison
Scandal at Coalinga
Denizens
of the state
"mental health" prison
in Coalinga, California are challenging the conditions of their
confinement. The death of an inmate has brought attention to the
conditions at the facility. (more
... )
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