by Michael L. Brown<\/p>\n
While millions of Americans are rightly sickened and outraged over the alleged pedophile acts of Jerry Sandusky at Penn State, millions more are totally unaware that gay activists have conveniently swept homosexual pedophilia under the rug.<\/p>\n
To be clear, I personally believe that the great majority of homosexual men also deplore Sandusky\u2019s alleged acts. At the same time, there is a very large pedophile elephant that is hiding in the gay activist closet. Dare we expose it?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with our children\u2019s schools, where GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight, Education Network, has long advocated for the celebration of homosexual history, using tools like \u201cNorth American History Game Cards,\u201d where elementary school children learn that famous Americans like Allen Ginsberg and Walt Whitman were gay.<\/p>\n
What the children don\u2019t learn is that if Whitman was a homosexual, he was also a pederast, that Ginsberg was a defender of NAMBLA, the notorious North American Man Boy Love Association, and that he (in)famously said, \u201cAttacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance. . . . I\u2019m a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too \u2014 everybody does, who has a little humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
During a radio interview earlier this year on the Rick Amato show, Jimmy LaSalvia of GOProud stated, \u201cI happen to think that a good school teacher, when they\u2019re teaching literature, would mention that Oscar Wilde, when they\u2019re teaching his work, would mention that Oscar Wilde was locked in an asylum because he was gay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Would they also mention that he was a boy lover and that he wrote about his passionate sexual encounters with young teens no older than some of the boys allegedly molested by Sandusky?<\/p>\n
As noted by Jim Kepner, formerly curator of the International Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, \u201cIf we reject the boylovers in our midst today we\u2019d better stop waving the banner of the Ancient Greeks, of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, [and others]. We\u2019d better stop claiming them as part of our heritage unless we are broadening our concept of what it means to be gay today.\u201d (There is, of course, dispute about the sexuality of some of these men on the list, but if, in fact, they were homosexual, they were also pederasts.)<\/p>\n
And remember that SB 48, mandating the celebration of LGBT history in all California schools for all children in all grades, is now law.<\/p>\n
The outrage over the alleged pedophile acts of Sandusky is only matched by the gay silence over the alleged pedophile (or pederast) acts of Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, and others.<\/p>\n
There is already a Harvey Milk Day in California, commemorating the life and death of this gay pioneer politician who has also been celebrated in an Academy Award winning film, but there\u2019s more to the Harvey Milk story.<\/p>\n
According to the acclaimed gay journalist Randy Shilts, at age eleven, Milk began attending performances of the New York Metropolitan Opera where he met with \u201cwandering hands,\u201d and soon was engaged in \u201cbrief trysts [with grown men] after the performances.\u201d While still in junior high, he \u201cdove headfirst into the newly discovered subculture,\u201d and by the age of fourteen, Milk was \u201cleading an active homosexual life.\u201d As he grew older, the pattern reversed itself to the point that, at age thirty-three, Milk hooked up with a sixteen-year-old named Jack McKinley, one of a number of younger men with whom he was intimate.<\/p>\n
And our kids celebrate Harvey Milk Day in their schools? Will they also celebrate the memory of Harry Hay, widely considered to be the founder of America\u2019s gay liberation movement and another well-known friend of NAMBLA? When a gay pride parade in Los Angeles banned NAMBLA from participating, Hay decided to march in the parade carrying a sign that said, \u201cNAMBLA walks with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
From 2001-2006, Yale University\u2019s LGBT program was greatly helped by the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies, named after the famous gay activist and author. Kramer too was a NAMBLA supporter, and in a 2004 speech in New York City, he spoke of a \u201csweet young boy who didn\u2019t know anything and was in awe of me. I was the first man who [had sex with] him. I think I murdered him\u201d (meaning, by infecting him with AIDS). Where is the gay outcry over this?<\/p>\n
And what are we to make of these statements by Kramer, proudly quoted by NAMBLA? \u201cIn those cases where children do have sex with their homosexual elders . . . I submit that often, very often, the child desires the activity, and perhaps even solicits it, either because of a natural curiosity . . . or because he or she is homosexual and innately knows it.\u201d He even claimed that, \u201cAnd unlike girls or women forced into rape or traumatized, most gay men have warm memories of their earliest and early sexual encounters; when we share these stories with each other, they are invariably positive ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is despicable, deplorable, and disgusting, yet Kramer remains a revered figure in gay activist circles.<\/p>\n
And I haven\u2019t said a word about gay activist attempts to reduce (or repeal!) the age of consent in different countries, including America (see, for example, the 1972 Gay Rights Platform), but the inescapable truth is clear: The gay activist closet has been opened, and the pedophile elephant is there.<\/p>\n
Let gay activists demonstrate their categorical rejection of all forms of pedophilia and pederasty by denouncing its very obvious presence in gay history (from the ancient Greeks to Harvey Milk), by renouncing all gay attempts to lower (or eliminate) the age of consent, and by agreeing not to sexualize our children\u2019s education.<\/p>\n
Will they do that, or will they attack the messenger? We shall see.<\/p>\n
(Everything cited in this article is carefully and painfully documented in A Queer Thing Happened to America<\/a>.)<\/p>\nDr. Michael Brown is the author of A Queer Thing Happened to America<\/a> and the host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show The Line of Fire on the Salem Radio Network.<\/h5>\n