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since the Stonewall Riots in New York City in June 1969, which marked the beginning of a reinvigorated struggle for gay liberation. "Off the consenting adults bullshit!" So concluded this item in a gay newspaper not long after the June 1969 Stonewall Riots at a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village: CHICKEN HAWKS NO LONGER IN DUTCH The Netherlands continues to be one of the most liberal coun-
tries in the world. The Dutch government recently introduced a new parliamentary measure that would make most chicken legal. The new legal age for homosexual fun would be set at David Thorstad is a former president of New York's Gay Activists Alliance and a founding member of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and of New York's Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights (CLGR). He
is co-author, with John Lauritsen, of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement . Correspondence may be addressed to David Thorstad, © 1991 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 251 16 — the same as for the heteros if the new law passes as ex- pected. Recently, similar legislation was introduced in the Or-
egon legislature and is expected to be passed into law by 1971. Off the consenting adults bullshit! The assumptions here reflect the pleasure-affirming impulses of the "Stonewall generation": Sex is fun,omosexuality is fun, boy- love is fun, gay liberation is a movement for everyone's sexual liberation. The rebels who fought the police at the Stonewall Inn — teenage youths and drag queens — affirmed the joys of an outlaw sexuality in the face of the outmoded moral norms of the dominant society. Today, however, the gay movement limits its concerns to what onsenting adults do in private. In the era of AIDS, it has de-em-
phasized sex, and seeks to sanitize the image of homosexuality to facilitate its entrance into the social mainstream. The sexual needs of young people have been devalued in favor of the priorities of an
upwardly mobile adult gay middle class ("guppies" — gay urban professionals). In short, the gay movement's agenda is being deter- mined increasingly by straight society, rather than by homosexuals themselves.
My aim here is to document and summarize incidents that have characterized the interfacing between the U.S. gay movement and the man/boy love issue since Stonewall. Much more could be said, but the incidents discussed here are typical and salient. As the beginning statement of this article demonstrates, man/boy
love occasionally intersected the broader gay movement in the years following the Stonewall Riots, even though it was not a major is- sue. New York's Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), successor to the Gay
Liberation Front and a prototype activist group founded in Decem- ber 1969, opposed legal restrictions on sex based on age, although this was never a focus of the group's activities. 2 In 1976 GAA be-
came the first gay group in New York — and probably in the coun- try—to sponsor a public forum on man/boy love. Held at the Church of the Beloved Disciple on April 4, the forum brought to- gether a "panel of pederasts" to speak on the topic "Of Men and Boys: Pederasty and the Age of Consent."
The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Rights Coalition, a cross-Canada group, also favored abolishing the age of consent. Many activists shared the view that the state had no business regulating sex be- tween consenting partners, whatever their age. Boy-lovers were involved in the gay movement from the begin- ning, and their presence was tolerated. Gay youth groups encour- aged adults to attend their dances. Youth fought to be treated as equal participants in struggle — not as a category of innocents in need of special protection from homosexual seduction, as they are usually regarded today. There was a mood of tolerance, even joy at
discovering the myriad lifestyles within the gay and lesbian subcul- ture. "Love is a many-gendered thing," read a banner at a 1971 gay demonstration in Albany, the New York State capital. Still, the issue of sex between adults and minors rarely arose. In 1977, the issue of sex between adults and minors moved
abruptly to center stage. Anita Bryant began to articulate the mount- ing backlash to gay liberation by zeroing in on a perceived weak link: the widespread belief that gay men seduce young boys and turn them into queers. The name of her organization — Save Our Children— transparently implied this. Simultaneously, a new hysteria about "kiddie porn" arose, fed by the political right and the feminist movement, with unmistakable suggestions that gay men who loved boys were in reality exploiting and abusing them. This clever propaganda ploy not only deftly ex- ploited the public's ignorance about homosexuality, but also caught the gay movement off guard: It was unprepared to make an intelli- gent rebuttal. Pederasty was a secret not to be told. Yet although man/boy love represented a minority phenomenon within the gay
subculture, it was far from unusual. 3 The gay movement went into a defensive mode. "Oh, no, homo-
men against little girls." It didn't occur to gay spokespeople to raw a distinction between being raped or molested and enjoying sex, or to point out that underage males frequently enjoy and seek to have sex, with men and women. No one thought to ask boy-lovers or boys themselves to respond to the accusation.
The mounting hysteria focused on sex between men and boys. No one expressed concern about women having sex with underage males; after all, that was heterosexual, considered more a pecca- dillo than a taboo — the woman was performing a social service by introducing the boy to the joys of heterosexuality.
Instead of fighting to liberate youth, it became fashionable to argue that youth needed protection, especially from sex with men. A perversion of language arose, reminiscent of the Newspeak of George OrwelPs 1984, in which "love" really meant "rape." The negative experiences of many feales at the hands of straight men
aroused skepticism about the ability of boy-lovers to be any differ- ent with their boyfriends. Under pressure from the women's movement and lesbian activ- ists, the gay movement began to internalize straight society's
stereotype of pederasty as inherently exploitative, a form of "sex- ual abuse," even when the youth wanted and enjoyed it. Like soci- ety at large, the women's and lesbian/gay movements seemed more concerned about consensual sex between men and boys than about actual physical abuse of children within the family, an epidemic problem. Most activists in these movements, both adult-run, wished the issue of cross-generational sex would just go away. But it didn't. Boy-lovers began to organize for the first time, in response to two widely publicized incidents in December 1977. Following the arrest of 24 men in Revere, Massachusetts, for consensual sex with boys (mostly teenagers), the Boston-Boise Committee was formed.
Its goal was to educate the media and public about the issues in- volved. A few weeks later, the Body Politic, a Canadian gay libera- tion newspaper, was raided by the police because it had published an article entitled "Men Loving Boys Loving Men."
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