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I am going to try to avoid "guilt by association", but I think readers will find the level of NAMBLA meeting attendees who share the same name as big figures in the LGBT movement (and other influential figures) to be very interesting.
Some of the names are not connected to major figures in the LGBT movement, but hold powerful titles like professor, journalist, author, historian, etc.
Wikipedia is used for many descriptions of the figures, as it is extremely left wing dominated and so readers can not really say that it is a right wing author trying to make these people who share their names with NAMBLA meeting attendees look more prominent than they actually are.
Before the snark: No one will find it surprising that there were many gay activists who went to NAMBLA meetings - it is the possible Level of their importance and their seeming to still be widely accepted by the LGBT community, as seen in their often glowing, deceptive wikipedia descriptions (which often make no mention of their likely-to-definite NAMBLA affiliation.)
Meeting attendee data gathered from NAMBLA founder David Thorstad's archive inventory:
https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/13/resources/7571
Click PDF collection inventory in top right corner.
1. Baltimore Conference Session, MB love and sexual repression side A, Oct-81 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:34 "NAMBLA conference and forum, Baltimore, proceedings plus forum, “Man/Boy Love and Sexual Repression: How the Lesbian and Gay Movement Should Fight Back,” with David Thorstad, Tom Reeves, Mel Boozer (NGTF), Frank Kameny Sexual Freedom Forum (at NAMBLA conference), Philadelphia, with Chris Bearchall, Ken Freemont-Smith, Michael J. Lavery, Pat Kuras, George Lakey, and Tom Reeves"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kameny referred to as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement.[2]
https://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/proudlives.html - Chris Bearchell is a towering figure in the history of gay liberation in Canada. A courageous and compassionate woman, Chris began writing for the Body Politic (TBP) in 1975, and was in the forefront of founding some of the first lesbian and gay organizations in Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Boozer a university professor and activist for African American, LGBT and HIV/AIDS issues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakey an activist, sociologist, and writer who added academic underpinning to the concept of nonviolent revolution
2. NAMBLA 10th Conference Peter Nicholas tape 1 side A, 8-Nov-86 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:35 NAMBLA 10th Conf, Los Angeles, with Peter Nicholas, Dr. Frits Bernard, Jim Kepner, Morris Kight, Harry Hay, Walter Williams, Hubert Kennedy, Daniel Tsang, Bob Rhodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kepner an American journalist, author, historian, archivist and leader in the gay rights movement
-in LGBTQ Journalist Hall of Fame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Kight was an American gay rights pioneer and peace activist. He is considered one of the original founders of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lee_Williams - is an American former professor of anthropology, history, and gender studies at the University of Southern California.
https://www.advocate.com/commentary...enowned-gay-writer-made-fbis-most-wanted-list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Kennedy an American author and mathematician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_C._Tsang an American activist and scholar whose writings have been of great importance in the Asian American and LGBT political movements.
3. Gay Men's Forum tape 1 side B, 21-Jun-84 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:45 Gay men's forum on Man/Boy love, Government Center, Minneapolis. David Thorstad, Carl Chrisman, Phil Oxman, Moderator: Rick Huskey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Huskey a co-founder of the United Methodist Gay Clergy Caucus, alongside Gene Leggett, which later became known as Affirmation.
In 1971, Huskey and other college students started the Northfield Gay Liberation Front,[2] which was one of the first publicly run LGBT groups for college students.
4. NAMBLA Conference Panel Califa, Reeves tape 1 side B, 1985 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:51 New York NAMBLA conference panel "The Uses of Abuse" with Tom Reeves, Pat Califia, and others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry.[1][2] Califia is a bisexual trans man.[3] Prior to transitioning, Califia identified as a lesbian and wrote for many years a sex advice column for the gay men's leather magazine Drummer. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture.[4] Califia is a member of the third-wave feminism movement.
Califia has asserted that all age of consent laws should be repealed, describing pedophilia as 'erotic initiation'.[25] In 'Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex', Califia criticized anti child abuse / anti child pornography laws because they are applied disproportionately to gay men, commenting that he 'knew several gay men who proudly called themselves boy-lovers', and criticized federal laws against child abuse imagery because they would have 'guaranteed that it [child abuse imagery] would disappear from the shelves of adult book stores'.[25] Califia additionally supported the pedophilia advocacy organization North American Man/Boy Love Association.[26] After becoming a parent, Califia reconsidered his stance on the age of consent and adult / child sex:
5. NAMBLA Conference Boston tape 1 side A, 2-Dec-78 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:32:01 Conference on Man/Boy Love and the age of consent, Boston: Psychological Panel (Tom Reeves; Father Paul Shanley, representative of Cardinal Madeiros for Sexual Minorities; Nick Kelley, Boston gay youth; Joe Owens, S.J.; Dr. Richard Pillard, moderator); Ethics Panel (David Thorstad, moderator; Sidney Smith, artist; Richi MacDougall, gay youth and Fag Rag; Charley Shively, Fag Rag; Canon Clynton Jones; Rev. Robert Wheatley, Unitarian-Universalist Church; Ed Meade, defendant in Revere case; Lois Johnson, president, Daughters of Bilitis, Boston); Legal Panel (John Ward, attorney; Arthur Goldsmith, attorney; Robert Snyder, attorney; Curtis Mason, New York gay youth) (NAMBLA was founded at the end of this conference)
(This is the founding meeting of NAMBLA, so not officially a NAMBLA meeting - at least not until the end when people voted for NAMBLA to form. Still there are many interesting names included. There is some documentation to accurately link these names to their true identities, as Daniel Tsang wrote an article describing some of the attendees, linked below.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley an American Roman Catholic priest who became the center of a massive sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. Beginning in 1967, the archdiocese covered up numerous allegations of child sexual assault against Shanley and facilitated his transfers to other states. Shanley was convicted of child rape and removed from the priesthood in 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Sousa_Medeiros - Cardinal Medeiros (who had Paul Shanley as a representative at the meeting):
"An ecclesiastical conservative, Cardinal Medeiros was considered a champion of the immigrant worker, the poor and minorities.[1]"...
(now for the part buried deep in the wiki page)
"Medeiros transferred John Geoghan from parish to parish despite multiple credible accusations of sexual abuse.[18] He knew of dozens of sexual abuse accusations against Paul Shanley.[19] Medeiros himself was accused of sexual impropriety posthumously by Gerry Garland, a student at Catholic Memorial High School."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pillard a professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States.[1]
https://slate.com/human-interest/20...iberation-activist-who-rejected-equality.html a pioneering gay liberation activist on the scale, if not with the name recognition, of Harvey Milk
https://connecticuthistory.org/cano...tionary-figure-in-connecticuts-lgbtq-history/ an Episcopal priest in Connecticut named Canon Clinton Jones spearheaded one of the first major LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations and mental health supports in the state.
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/accused/wheatley-robert-carroll-1975/
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/lois-johnson-obituary?id=6791182 From her 30's until she died, Lois was a powerhouse in the gay and lesbian rights movement. For 20 years, she was President of Boston's Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), which was the only lesbian organization with chapters across the country in the 1970's.
https://www.bishop-accountability.o.../McCormackDeposition/McCormack-Exhibit-19.pdf - Tsang's report on the founding meeting of NAMBLA.
Fun facts from article:
NAMBLA was formed in a church!
Tom Reeves was a political science professor at Roxbury College at the time of helping to form NAMBLA.
Nick Kelley was a 16 year old boy at the meeting.
Richi McDougal was another 'gay youth' at the meeting, and writer for "Fag Rag" magazine, who said he sold sex to men because he just loves gay sex.
Pastor Canon Clinton Jones described a priest friend as "a beautiful person because he was loved by a man as a boy."
Thorstad admits he is a pederast since being 'picked up' by a boy that summer.
Joe Owens - labor organizer in Jamaica, social worker in black community, self described boy lover.
Sidney Smith - black artist from NYC - spoke of feeling 'rage' for not being able to have sex with boys.
Reeves says he has spoken to 500 boy lovers and they are nearly all teachers and boy scout leaders.
Lois Johnson said she is outraged about attacks on boy lovers.
Jon Schaller asked about power dynamics between a man and boy and the audience went into an 'uproar.'
NAMBLA says it can be contacted via "Fag Rag" magazine's mailing address.
6. Guy Hocquenghem Interview tape 1 side A, 1980 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:16 Guy Hocquengher interviews David Thorstad about NAMBLA and the gay movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Hocquenghem
"a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist...At the age of fifteen he began an affair with his high school philosophy teacher, René Scherer. They remained lifelong friends.[2]"
7. NAMBLA Conference Boston tape 1 side A, 1980 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:46:27 NAMBLA conf. Boston, Panel 1 John Ward, Mitzel, Alex Wilson (Body Politic Collective)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Politic The Body Politic was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 to 1987.[1] It was one of Canada's first significant gay publications, and played a prominent role in the development of the LGBT community in Canada.[1]
John Mitzel:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo...+john&sortby=17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title3
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo...john&sortby=17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title25
Alex Wilson (also featuring Body Politic member Tim McCaskell):
https://lgbtpurgefund.com/meet-the-eic/
Alex Wilson is Neyonawak Inniniwak from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. She is a professor with the Department of Educational Foundations and the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Wilson’s scholarship has greatly contributed to building and sharing knowledge about two spirit identity, history and teachings, Indigenous research methodologies, and the prevention of violence in the lives of Indigenous peoples. Learn more at: https://words.usask.ca/alexwilson/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahU91mRC5sY
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=jgi
8. NAMBLA Baltimore Conference tape 1 side B, 10-Oct-87 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:48:22 NAMBLA conference, Baltimore, with John Zeh, Tom Reeves
John Zeh: radio personality, writer, sex offender who parties in DC.
https://www.citybeat.com/news/news-from-a-to-zeh-12178247
"In 1985 Zeh once more found himself in front of a judge. But this time the case had nothing to do with freedom of speech. Convicted of sexual battery for having sex with a mentally impaired 17-year-old, Zeh was sentenced to two years in prison. Zeh has written for Rolling Stone and The Village Voice and reported for All Things Considered on National Public Radio."
https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/sz0205
https://casetext.com/case/state-v-zeh
"On February 17, 1981, defendants-appellees, John Zeh and Stepchild Radio of Cincinnati, Inc., were indicted on four counts of disseminating materials harmful to juveniles...defendants recklessly presented a radio performance, "Gaydreams," knowing that it contained obscene material "A Guide for Greasy Fingers"
https://www.gerberhart.org/archival-collection-guide/
John Zeh was a longtime activist and journalist who worked for numerous social justice causes including gay rights, anti-racism, and homeless advocacy. In 1979 he founded the Gaydreams radio show. He also edited the Rainbow News online service, moderated the Rainbow Talk list, and was a contributor to Streetvibes, the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless’ newspaper, the Greater Cincinnati GLBT News and the Gay People’s Chronicle. His collection includes reel-to-reel recordings of his radio shows, 8mm films, photographs, slides, cassettes, posters, buttons, and press clippings.
9. Student Association NYC tape 1 side A, 17-Mar-83 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:56 Forum on Man/Boy Love sponsored by the Libertarian Student Association at New York University, with Wallace Hamilton and David Thorstad
Wallace Hamilton:
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/03/...milton-64-dies-a-novelist-and-playwright.html
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5584631
"Kevin was a 15 year old boy, growing up on the streets, learning the ropes and flirting with the dangers of the hustler's world. Bruce was a successful man who wrapped his gayness in a cocoon of respectability and took his pleasures in the safety of a moneyed circle of those like himself, or with anonymous bought bodies. When Kevin and Bruce first came together. they did not dream that love was going to happen... and they could not control it when it did."
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1863048
Roger Thornton was a vital, handsome, successful man in his forties, newly divorced, the father of two teenage daughters, the lover of many women, when he invited Michael to his hotel room. He told himself he was simply curious about this extraordinarily good-looking , frankly gay young man.
10. WBAI Gay Rap tape 1 side B, 27-Sep-80 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:11:32 Gay Rap Benefit, WBAI panel on man/boy love: Craig Rodwell, David Thorstad, Michael Alhonte, Andy Humm, and Rudi Grillo (moderator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Rodwell
"was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967 - the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors - and as the prime mover for the creation of the New York City gay pride demonstration.[2][3][4] Rodwell, who was already an activist when he participated in the 1969 Stonewall uprising,[5] is considered by some to be the leading gay rights activist in the early, pre-Stonewall, homophile movement of the 1960s"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Humm
Andy Humm (born October 19, 1953[1]) is a journalist, activist and currently co-host of TV news program Gay USA.
Rudy Grillo
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/1248
Rudy Grillo was a producer of radio programs for WBAI-FM in New York City. In 1980 Grillo was promoted to the position of Program Director of WBAI's Gay Men's Department, which he held until its dissolution in 1982.
(And lets keep in mind, this is just what an amateur sleuth found with Google and the Thorstad archive's online inventory. Who knows what a dedicated professional could find who actually went to the archive (as well as many of the other LGBT archives, which seem to be in almost every university now.))
Sorry if this is the wrong subforum. I searched around a bunch and couldn't find an ideal place to post this. Feel free to relocate it if there is a better spot
Some of the names are not connected to major figures in the LGBT movement, but hold powerful titles like professor, journalist, author, historian, etc.
Wikipedia is used for many descriptions of the figures, as it is extremely left wing dominated and so readers can not really say that it is a right wing author trying to make these people who share their names with NAMBLA meeting attendees look more prominent than they actually are.
Before the snark: No one will find it surprising that there were many gay activists who went to NAMBLA meetings - it is the possible Level of their importance and their seeming to still be widely accepted by the LGBT community, as seen in their often glowing, deceptive wikipedia descriptions (which often make no mention of their likely-to-definite NAMBLA affiliation.)
Meeting attendee data gathered from NAMBLA founder David Thorstad's archive inventory:
https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/13/resources/7571
Click PDF collection inventory in top right corner.
1. Baltimore Conference Session, MB love and sexual repression side A, Oct-81 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:34 "NAMBLA conference and forum, Baltimore, proceedings plus forum, “Man/Boy Love and Sexual Repression: How the Lesbian and Gay Movement Should Fight Back,” with David Thorstad, Tom Reeves, Mel Boozer (NGTF), Frank Kameny Sexual Freedom Forum (at NAMBLA conference), Philadelphia, with Chris Bearchall, Ken Freemont-Smith, Michael J. Lavery, Pat Kuras, George Lakey, and Tom Reeves"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kameny referred to as "one of the most significant figures" in the American gay rights movement.[2]
https://www.yorku.ca/nnicol/proudlives.html - Chris Bearchell is a towering figure in the history of gay liberation in Canada. A courageous and compassionate woman, Chris began writing for the Body Politic (TBP) in 1975, and was in the forefront of founding some of the first lesbian and gay organizations in Canada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Boozer a university professor and activist for African American, LGBT and HIV/AIDS issues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakey an activist, sociologist, and writer who added academic underpinning to the concept of nonviolent revolution
2. NAMBLA 10th Conference Peter Nicholas tape 1 side A, 8-Nov-86 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:35 NAMBLA 10th Conf, Los Angeles, with Peter Nicholas, Dr. Frits Bernard, Jim Kepner, Morris Kight, Harry Hay, Walter Williams, Hubert Kennedy, Daniel Tsang, Bob Rhodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Kepner an American journalist, author, historian, archivist and leader in the gay rights movement
-in LGBTQ Journalist Hall of Fame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Kight was an American gay rights pioneer and peace activist. He is considered one of the original founders of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lee_Williams - is an American former professor of anthropology, history, and gender studies at the University of Southern California.
https://www.advocate.com/commentary...enowned-gay-writer-made-fbis-most-wanted-list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Kennedy an American author and mathematician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_C._Tsang an American activist and scholar whose writings have been of great importance in the Asian American and LGBT political movements.
3. Gay Men's Forum tape 1 side B, 21-Jun-84 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:45 Gay men's forum on Man/Boy love, Government Center, Minneapolis. David Thorstad, Carl Chrisman, Phil Oxman, Moderator: Rick Huskey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Huskey a co-founder of the United Methodist Gay Clergy Caucus, alongside Gene Leggett, which later became known as Affirmation.
In 1971, Huskey and other college students started the Northfield Gay Liberation Front,[2] which was one of the first publicly run LGBT groups for college students.
4. NAMBLA Conference Panel Califa, Reeves tape 1 side B, 1985 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:51 New York NAMBLA conference panel "The Uses of Abuse" with Tom Reeves, Pat Califia, and others
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Califia an American writer of non-fiction essays about sexuality and of erotic fiction and poetry.[1][2] Califia is a bisexual trans man.[3] Prior to transitioning, Califia identified as a lesbian and wrote for many years a sex advice column for the gay men's leather magazine Drummer. His writings explore sexuality and gender identity, and have included lesbian erotica and works about BDSM subculture.[4] Califia is a member of the third-wave feminism movement.
Califia has asserted that all age of consent laws should be repealed, describing pedophilia as 'erotic initiation'.[25] In 'Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex', Califia criticized anti child abuse / anti child pornography laws because they are applied disproportionately to gay men, commenting that he 'knew several gay men who proudly called themselves boy-lovers', and criticized federal laws against child abuse imagery because they would have 'guaranteed that it [child abuse imagery] would disappear from the shelves of adult book stores'.[25] Califia additionally supported the pedophilia advocacy organization North American Man/Boy Love Association.[26] After becoming a parent, Califia reconsidered his stance on the age of consent and adult / child sex:
5. NAMBLA Conference Boston tape 1 side A, 2-Dec-78 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:32:01 Conference on Man/Boy Love and the age of consent, Boston: Psychological Panel (Tom Reeves; Father Paul Shanley, representative of Cardinal Madeiros for Sexual Minorities; Nick Kelley, Boston gay youth; Joe Owens, S.J.; Dr. Richard Pillard, moderator); Ethics Panel (David Thorstad, moderator; Sidney Smith, artist; Richi MacDougall, gay youth and Fag Rag; Charley Shively, Fag Rag; Canon Clynton Jones; Rev. Robert Wheatley, Unitarian-Universalist Church; Ed Meade, defendant in Revere case; Lois Johnson, president, Daughters of Bilitis, Boston); Legal Panel (John Ward, attorney; Arthur Goldsmith, attorney; Robert Snyder, attorney; Curtis Mason, New York gay youth) (NAMBLA was founded at the end of this conference)
(This is the founding meeting of NAMBLA, so not officially a NAMBLA meeting - at least not until the end when people voted for NAMBLA to form. Still there are many interesting names included. There is some documentation to accurately link these names to their true identities, as Daniel Tsang wrote an article describing some of the attendees, linked below.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Shanley an American Roman Catholic priest who became the center of a massive sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. Beginning in 1967, the archdiocese covered up numerous allegations of child sexual assault against Shanley and facilitated his transfers to other states. Shanley was convicted of child rape and removed from the priesthood in 2004
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Sousa_Medeiros - Cardinal Medeiros (who had Paul Shanley as a representative at the meeting):
"An ecclesiastical conservative, Cardinal Medeiros was considered a champion of the immigrant worker, the poor and minorities.[1]"...
(now for the part buried deep in the wiki page)
"Medeiros transferred John Geoghan from parish to parish despite multiple credible accusations of sexual abuse.[18] He knew of dozens of sexual abuse accusations against Paul Shanley.[19] Medeiros himself was accused of sexual impropriety posthumously by Gerry Garland, a student at Catholic Memorial High School."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pillard a professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was the first openly gay psychiatrist in the United States.[1]
https://slate.com/human-interest/20...iberation-activist-who-rejected-equality.html a pioneering gay liberation activist on the scale, if not with the name recognition, of Harvey Milk
https://connecticuthistory.org/cano...tionary-figure-in-connecticuts-lgbtq-history/ an Episcopal priest in Connecticut named Canon Clinton Jones spearheaded one of the first major LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations and mental health supports in the state.
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/accused/wheatley-robert-carroll-1975/
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/lois-johnson-obituary?id=6791182 From her 30's until she died, Lois was a powerhouse in the gay and lesbian rights movement. For 20 years, she was President of Boston's Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), which was the only lesbian organization with chapters across the country in the 1970's.
https://www.bishop-accountability.o.../McCormackDeposition/McCormack-Exhibit-19.pdf - Tsang's report on the founding meeting of NAMBLA.
Fun facts from article:
NAMBLA was formed in a church!
Tom Reeves was a political science professor at Roxbury College at the time of helping to form NAMBLA.
Nick Kelley was a 16 year old boy at the meeting.
Richi McDougal was another 'gay youth' at the meeting, and writer for "Fag Rag" magazine, who said he sold sex to men because he just loves gay sex.
Pastor Canon Clinton Jones described a priest friend as "a beautiful person because he was loved by a man as a boy."
Thorstad admits he is a pederast since being 'picked up' by a boy that summer.
Joe Owens - labor organizer in Jamaica, social worker in black community, self described boy lover.
Sidney Smith - black artist from NYC - spoke of feeling 'rage' for not being able to have sex with boys.
Reeves says he has spoken to 500 boy lovers and they are nearly all teachers and boy scout leaders.
Lois Johnson said she is outraged about attacks on boy lovers.
Jon Schaller asked about power dynamics between a man and boy and the audience went into an 'uproar.'
NAMBLA says it can be contacted via "Fag Rag" magazine's mailing address.
6. Guy Hocquenghem Interview tape 1 side A, 1980 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:47:16 Guy Hocquengher interviews David Thorstad about NAMBLA and the gay movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Hocquenghem
"a French writer, philosopher, and queer theorist...At the age of fifteen he began an affair with his high school philosophy teacher, René Scherer. They remained lifelong friends.[2]"
7. NAMBLA Conference Boston tape 1 side A, 1980 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:46:27 NAMBLA conf. Boston, Panel 1 John Ward, Mitzel, Alex Wilson (Body Politic Collective)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Politic The Body Politic was a Canadian monthly magazine, which was published from 1971 to 1987.[1] It was one of Canada's first significant gay publications, and played a prominent role in the development of the LGBT community in Canada.[1]
John Mitzel:
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo...+john&sortby=17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title3
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Bo...john&sortby=17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title25
Alex Wilson (also featuring Body Politic member Tim McCaskell):
https://lgbtpurgefund.com/meet-the-eic/
Alex Wilson is Neyonawak Inniniwak from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation. She is a professor with the Department of Educational Foundations and the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Wilson’s scholarship has greatly contributed to building and sharing knowledge about two spirit identity, history and teachings, Indigenous research methodologies, and the prevention of violence in the lives of Indigenous peoples. Learn more at: https://words.usask.ca/alexwilson/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahU91mRC5sY
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=jgi
8. NAMBLA Baltimore Conference tape 1 side B, 10-Oct-87 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:48:22 NAMBLA conference, Baltimore, with John Zeh, Tom Reeves
John Zeh: radio personality, writer, sex offender who parties in DC.
https://www.citybeat.com/news/news-from-a-to-zeh-12178247
"In 1985 Zeh once more found himself in front of a judge. But this time the case had nothing to do with freedom of speech. Convicted of sexual battery for having sex with a mentally impaired 17-year-old, Zeh was sentenced to two years in prison. Zeh has written for Rolling Stone and The Village Voice and reported for All Things Considered on National Public Radio."
https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/sz0205
https://casetext.com/case/state-v-zeh
"On February 17, 1981, defendants-appellees, John Zeh and Stepchild Radio of Cincinnati, Inc., were indicted on four counts of disseminating materials harmful to juveniles...defendants recklessly presented a radio performance, "Gaydreams," knowing that it contained obscene material "A Guide for Greasy Fingers"
https://www.gerberhart.org/archival-collection-guide/
John Zeh was a longtime activist and journalist who worked for numerous social justice causes including gay rights, anti-racism, and homeless advocacy. In 1979 he founded the Gaydreams radio show. He also edited the Rainbow News online service, moderated the Rainbow Talk list, and was a contributor to Streetvibes, the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless’ newspaper, the Greater Cincinnati GLBT News and the Gay People’s Chronicle. His collection includes reel-to-reel recordings of his radio shows, 8mm films, photographs, slides, cassettes, posters, buttons, and press clippings.
9. Student Association NYC tape 1 side A, 17-Mar-83 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:31:56 Forum on Man/Boy Love sponsored by the Libertarian Student Association at New York University, with Wallace Hamilton and David Thorstad
Wallace Hamilton:
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/03/...milton-64-dies-a-novelist-and-playwright.html
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/5584631
"Kevin was a 15 year old boy, growing up on the streets, learning the ropes and flirting with the dangers of the hustler's world. Bruce was a successful man who wrapped his gayness in a cocoon of respectability and took his pleasures in the safety of a moneyed circle of those like himself, or with anonymous bought bodies. When Kevin and Bruce first came together. they did not dream that love was going to happen... and they could not control it when it did."
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1863048
Roger Thornton was a vital, handsome, successful man in his forties, newly divorced, the father of two teenage daughters, the lover of many women, when he invited Michael to his hotel room. He told himself he was simply curious about this extraordinarily good-looking , frankly gay young man.
10. WBAI Gay Rap tape 1 side B, 27-Sep-80 Scope and Contents Duration: 0:11:32 Gay Rap Benefit, WBAI panel on man/boy love: Craig Rodwell, David Thorstad, Michael Alhonte, Andy Humm, and Rudi Grillo (moderator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Rodwell
"was an American gay rights activist known for founding the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop on November 24, 1967 - the first bookstore devoted to gay and lesbian authors - and as the prime mover for the creation of the New York City gay pride demonstration.[2][3][4] Rodwell, who was already an activist when he participated in the 1969 Stonewall uprising,[5] is considered by some to be the leading gay rights activist in the early, pre-Stonewall, homophile movement of the 1960s"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Humm
Andy Humm (born October 19, 1953[1]) is a journalist, activist and currently co-host of TV news program Gay USA.
Rudy Grillo
https://archives.nypl.org/mss/1248
Rudy Grillo was a producer of radio programs for WBAI-FM in New York City. In 1980 Grillo was promoted to the position of Program Director of WBAI's Gay Men's Department, which he held until its dissolution in 1982.
(And lets keep in mind, this is just what an amateur sleuth found with Google and the Thorstad archive's online inventory. Who knows what a dedicated professional could find who actually went to the archive (as well as many of the other LGBT archives, which seem to be in almost every university now.))
Sorry if this is the wrong subforum. I searched around a bunch and couldn't find an ideal place to post this. Feel free to relocate it if there is a better spot
