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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
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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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