“Leftists now demanding pedo rights”
In December 1977, police raided a house in the Boston suburb Revere. Twenty-four men were arrested and indicted on over 100 felony counts of the statutory rape of boys aged eight to fifteen. Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne found the men had used drugs and video games to lure the boys into a house, where they photographed them as they engaged in sexual activity. The men were members of a “sex ring”; Byrne said the arrest was “the tip of the iceberg”.[5] Commenting on this issue, Boston Magazine described NAMBLA as “the most despised group of men in America”, which was “founded mostly by eccentric, boy-loving leftists”.[5] The “Boston-Boise Committee”, a gay rights organization, was formed in response to these events (which they termed the “Boston witchunt”), allegedly in order to promote solidarity amongst gay men, saying in an official leaflet that: “The closet is weak. There is strength in unity and openness.”[12] NAMBLA’s founding was inspired by this organization.[12] It was co-founded by historian David Thorstad.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association#History