Harry Hay taunted the parade organizers by marching in their parade wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with the words “NAMBLA Walks With Me.”
In the eighties and nineties, as gay activists began to sanitize their public image, NAMBLA was asked not to make its customary appearance in the Gay Pride parades. This snub outraged Harry Hay and other up-front gays. In 1994, Harry Hay was a signer of the “Spirit of Stonewall” proclamation that argued against banning NAMBLA from the New York “pride” parade. The Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) proclamation read in part: “Stonewall was a spontaneous action of marginal people oppressed by the mainstream – teenaged drag queens, pederasts, transsexuals, hustlers, and others despised by respectable straights and ‘discreet’ homosexuals.
“SOS is an ad hoc committee of lesbian, gay and other individuals and groups formed to bring Stonewall 25 [celebrating the 25th anniversary of the riots] back to the principles of gay liberation. We focus on one of the most glaring departures from those principles: the attempt to exclude [NAMBLA].
“NAMBLA’s record as a responsible gay organization is well known. NAMBLA was spawned by the gay community and has been in every major gay and lesbian march…NAMBLA’s call for the abolition of age of consent is not the issue. NAMBLA is a bona fide participant in the gay and lesbian movement. NAMBLA deserves strong support in its rights of free speech and association and its member’s protection from discrimination and bashing”
This is an amazing document. It clearly states that the “oppressed minority” that Harry Hay sought to “liberate” was well represented by people whose behavior and psychology were a first-class ticket to social marginalization: hustlers, drag queens, the sexually confused, the surgically refurbished, and child molesters, to name a few. It is the primal urge of this jumbled stew of oddballs, later to be dubbed the “gay community” for political purposes, that drives today’s gay agenda: the legitimization of freakish sexual perspectives. In its blunt assertion of the raw gay essence, the Spirit of Stonewall declaration puts the lie to the cosmetically enhanced portraits of gays that appear regularly on the pages of publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.’s New York Times. In its heartfelt plea to protect child molesters “from discrimination and bashing” the Stonewall declaration confirmed mainstream America’s well-founded skepticism of the gay agenda. NAMBLA was welcomed with open arms at all the gay pride events until it became a political liability.
When the Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade excluded NAMBLA, Harry Hay taunted the parade organizers by marching in their parade wearing a sandwich board emblazoned with the words “NAMBLA Walks With Me.” This moment is included by Hay’s biographer, Stuart Timmons, in his The Trouble with Harry Hay: Founder of the Modern Gay Movement. The book includes a photo of Harry sporting his NAMBLA sandwich board. This book was widely quoted in Hay’s numerous obituaries, so the media liberals must have seen this photo, and yet they all concealed it from the American public. That’s called lying by omission.
No mainstream media outlet mentioned the essay Harry Hay wrote for the pederasty magazine GAYME, which is produced by former NAMBLA Bulletin editor Bill Audriette. Only Armistead Maupin mentioned in a passing sentence that Harry Hay had studied “berdachism, the Native American practice of raising ‘third gender’ children as spiritual intermediaries between the sexes.”
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