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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 00:17:45 -0800 From: radow@netcom.com (Roy Radow) Subject: Re: http://qrd.tcp.com/qrd/orgs/NAMBLA/books.available.ariels.pages

Please replace the outdated listing for Ariel's Pages with the updated list below. Thank you.

Books relating to man boy love are now available from Ariel's Pages (see address at the end of this posting). Here is an EXPANDED and UP- DATED (December 9, 1996) copy of their listing.

I know the people at Ariel's Pages and they are quite legitimate. I am not personally involved in this service however and am only posting this list FYI.

Any comments you may have regarding this booklist should be sent to them (I did not write these descriptions). They would also be interested in any additional books that you could recommend.

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

-- Roy Radow * Now: radow@netcom.com * (was: roy@panix.com) North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018. Send $5 a for sample Bulletin. Publications list available upon request.

ACOLYTE PRESS BOOKS

Acolyte Press was the world's best known publisher of man/boy love literature. With the death of Frank Torey this past year Acolyte Press has ceased operations. When our current supply of these books are gone there will be no replacements.

Among the books listed below are also a few very rare, long out-of -print titles from Coltsfoot Press (predecessor to Acolyte) which we were lucky to obtain in limited quantity.

The Acolyte Readers Series

Various Authors. (Acolyte Press.)

In the long-running Acolyte Reader series, the short story format allows for an impressive variety in each volume. Every book includes serious authors of short fiction and masters of erotic prose including Kevin Esser, Luis Miguelito Fuentes, Hakim Bey and Robert Campbell. They also comprise less realistic pieces that really deserve the name fairy tales: everybody lives happily ever after.

Acolyte Reader Five

(192 pages)

One of the last stories by the late Robert Campbell follows a teen-age tennis star through central Africa on a wild trip filled with the threat of danger and the promise of love, Luis Miguelito Fuentes first story for the series introduces the astounding, unique voice of a gifted teenage writer; he was 14 at the time of publication of this sexy romp through New York City in the 90s. Also included is an important translation of a novella by Dutch writer Jef Last, about a 12-year-old threatened by the guns of World War I and the prejudices of his own community. SOLD OUT

Acolyte Reader Six

(192 pages)

Bob Henderson's warmly romantic piece demonstrates why it's so hard for some men to stop loving boys: there are just too many of them waiting to be loved. Hakim Bey's "Yohimbe Poems" weave dances with words, remembering two boys loved by the poet, and Jacques de Brethmas performs a comic turn with a boy at his most intriguingly deceitful. Order AR6 $15.50

Acolyte Reader Seven

(192 pages)

Alan Edwards updates an ancient Spanish coming of age ritual in one story and explores the confluence of locomotion and eroticism in another, I.L. Ingels turns up the heat in a tale of a 13-year-old who cruises the beaches in search of a lover. Order AR7 $15.50

Acolyte Reader Eight

(192 pages)

Kevin Esser's "One Last Time" begins at the ending and traces twin themes of pain and pleasure that are never clearly separated, showcasing the writer's unparalleled ability to sketch deeply human characters in wildly erotic stories. Luis Miguel Fuentes offers his trademark no-holds- barred imaginative autobiography in "Early Times," and Edward Bangor uses pop culture to comic effect in "For Those About to..." Order AR8 $15.50

Acolyte Reader Nine

(192 pages)

Jotham Lotring's "Night Ride" reveals the subtle erotics possible on a cross-country bus trip, and Christopher Monteriano filters the effects of family friendships on a delicately blossoming love affair with a 15-year- old. In Mark Derby's "Not Again," a schoolboy stigmatized for one same-sex attraction finds in his next relationship with a boy the strength to stand up to an abusive teacher. Order AR9 $15.50

Acolyte Reader Ten

(192 pp)

I.L. Ingles imagines the developing relationship between a teen-age boy an his Japanese captor in a World-War-II interment camp and B.J. Freedman chronicles the leisurely growth of affection between a runaway teenager and a rock-and-roll drummer. Other tales are set in New Zealand, Mexico and Scotland in perhaps the most international collection of Acolyte stories. Order AR10, $15.50

==Acolyte Reader Eleven== (192 pp)

Kevin Esser's Santo Domingo is full of incident and emotion: love and betrayal, passion, the threat of death and the promise of renewal. B.J. Freedman's Brian's Dick is a considerably lighter story of the young narrator's frustrating months long campaign to get a peek at the title object. In Rocky, a lonely retired schoolteacher loves a boy and loses him, but receives a special gift. Order AR11, $15.50

Attic Adolescent

by Bob Henderson

Did paederasty die with the Ancient Greeks? Not if Bob Henderson's account of the country in the mid 70s is any indication. This book of interconnec- ted short stories and one novella recounts the amorous adventures of an incurably romanffc expatriate Andreas, Takis, Pavlos, Achilles, Nikos, Stelios, Stavros and Spiros are all loved, and all different. Some are street-wise hustlers, others bourgeois schoolboys; some of Henderson's passions are fleeffng and others stretch for years. A sexy and sensitve account. Order HAA, $22.00

Crowstone, by Hakim

(Coltsfoot Press)

This sword-and-sorcery tale has developed an almost legendary status with both boy-lovers and science fiction fans because for many years it's been almost impossible to find a copy. On Qarnar, the fairest of the 108 moons of Algol, a monk/thief meets a wandering warrior in a fight against air- pirates; they band together in a quest that introduces them to a score of boys: Jethael, greatest of the Temple dancers; blond Xiri of Thurenian blood; tattooed Dragon from the Chromatic wastes; Ravinian the voyeur; and pig-tailed sorcerer Varonael. Order BCR, $22.00

Explosion, by I.L. Ingles

(Acolyte Press, 384 pages)

Inspired by Lord of the Flies, I.L. Ingles created this novel of a mixed group of black and white boys surviving in an African cave after a nuclear war has devastated the earth. The boys build their own society with a set of rules, but contradictions grow up immediately. Clothes, they soon realize, are more trouble than they're worth, but the casual nudity makes challenges to the prohibition against "playing sex" inevitable. The struggle over sex becomes an emblem of the battle between freedom and custom, between a past that conjured the disaster that left the boys by themselves and a future that demands they create traditions of their own. Order IEX $21.95.

The Fire-Worshiper, by Alan Edward

(Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

Imagine what it would be like today if the old pagan religions of Europe had not just survived the on-rush of Christianity, but prevailed. Alan Edward has created such an alternate world. England in this tale is a happy place, a society of advanced but semi-pastoral people where talented boys sing and dance and openly make love in elaborate religious celebrations. But the worshippers of Jaweh have not given up; driven underground and onto a polluted island, their faith has grown ugly and fanatic. They have begun kidnapping youngsters and forcefully converting them. This is the story of 12-year-old Alric and his quest, along with a local wizard, to rescue his lover, abducted and forced into the catacombs of the dark faith. Order EFW $15.50

Getting It On, by Dr. Joseph Winchester

(Acolyte Press, 208 pp)

It's easy to doubt the veracity of the author's claim that his "Homosexual Histories of Six Heterosexual American Boys" is nothing more than the unadorned report drawn from his interviews with you boys and adolescents. And if it fails at science, it doesn't succeed as great literature, either. But; "one-handed reading," it offers verve and variety and a veil of respectability. Order WGI, $15.50

Growing Old Disgracefully, by Casmir Dukahz

(Acolyte Press, 224 pp)

Casmir Dukahz confuses wordplay and foreplay, using both to produce an explosive climax. These rollicking accounts of amorous encounters with a bevy of teenage charmers are full of puns and double entendres, filled with situations recalling French farce and slapstick comedy. Seldom is erotic writing so humorous. Dukahz store of naughty anecdotes is apparently unending, and he taps it to great advantage in this pseudo-autobiographical record of a life spent in loving pursuit of boys. Growing Old Disgrace- fully is the fourth volume in his partly satirical autobiography; woven throughout is the story of 'Duke' and his flaxen-haired Baltimore born favorite, Remy. Readers familiar with his earlier books will find Dukahz has lost none of his literacy and none of his wit as he recalls happier days before bigotry and hysteria spread across the land. Order DGO $15.50

It's Okay to Say Yes, by J. Darling

(Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

Subtitled: "Close Encounters in the Third World: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Well-Traveled Boy-Lover," Darling's book is an account of a dozen years he spent traveling the world. He has visited all those places where a well-publicized boy-love "scene" exists, and many more where it doesn't. Darling is revealed in these pages as a basically decent man willing to suffer persecution, and even imprisonment, to experience the fulfillment of his desire for physical love. Read with some insight, his book also reveals, perhaps unintentionally, the prejudice and paternalism Westerners often bring to their relationships with boys from far-off lands. Order DIO $15.50

Kim, My Beloved, by Jens Eisenhardt

(Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

Jens Eisenhardt describes an incredibly intense love in this auto- biographical novel about a 28-year-old teacher and a pupil half his age. Critics hailed it as a "very important work of erotic literature" when in first appeared in Danish. This English translation lets American readers enjoy Eisenhardt's precise mapping of the emotional journey hazarded by a lonely man who follows his heart to a region proscribed by polite society. Eisenhardt faithfully recounts both the joys and pitfalls of a relationship whose passion must be hidden from the prying eyes of outsiders. Order EMB $15.50

Lucky Lips, by Rob Elan

(Acolyte Press, 224 pp)

Ernie Willet is 11 years old, handsome, popular and athletic. He still struggles, though, with the grief of losing his father two years before. He looks for emotional support from 16-year-old Rick, who lives down the street, but it takes classmate Gordie Lewis to show Ernie what it is he really wants from Rick. Rob Elan's account of a boy's discovery of the world outside his home is warm, funny and more than anything, sexy. Order ELL $15.50

A Natural Lizard Activity, by B.J. Freedman

(Acolyte Press: Amsterdam)

This boy-love novel is set in California of the 70s amid the obsessive fans of the Grateful Dead who style themselves Deadheads. Thirteen-year-old Kim and his Pop are packed off on a transcontinental bus by Mom and her new dope-dealing lover. Once a trendy professor, Pop had burned out his wits on an overdose of scared mushrooms; by the time he and Kim end up in Venice Beach, the child has definitely become father to the man. When a 31-year- old coke dealer falls for Kim, it sets the stage for a comic, erotic trek through the state of California as the teenager seeks to balance his responsibilities to his family, his lover and himself. Freedman's casual racism is a bummer, almost scuttling the novel's appeal. But his eye for the realistic detail- emotional, geographic and sociological- makes the novel worth the trip. Order FNL, $15.50

Operation Jock, by C.R, Labarge

(Acolyte Press: Amsterdam, 1995)

Operation Jock is very much like the problem novels aimed at juvenile readers you might remember from the Scholastic books you used to order through your English class in junior high school. Of course, I can't recall a scholastic book where the protagonist's problem was anything like this: how can 14-year-old Evan, just beginning to understand the joys of boy-boy sex, integrate his sensitive lover into the gang of rowdy jocks that are Evan's best friends. But Evan's other concerns would fit right into one of Scholastic's extracurricular readers: how to convince his mother to let him try out for junior varsity football and what to do about an anti-tax activist who wants to cancel the school sports program to save money. Order LOJ, $15.50

The Paggers Papers, by Richard Rawson

(Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

For years a little Philippine village had been famous for taking tourists on boat trips to a scenic waterfall. Western gays soon discovered that many of the handsome, muscular boatmen were willing to supplement their meager earnings with prostitution. Soon, their younger brothers were drawn into the game, and vacationing boy-lovers arrived in increasing numbers. In the mid-seventies, Western media labeled the situation an example of child abuse and exploitation, and local politicians built careers promising to crack down. This book is one man's recollection of the village when man/boy relationships were tolerated, and even encouraged. It's partly a nostalgic paean to a boy-lover's lost paradise, partly a social document about boys' sexuality as it can develop in a palliative environment. While Rawson's memoir shows that the accounts of abuse were products of narrow prejudice, his portrait of himself as a not-particularly-sensitive Westerner proves that sex-tourism has complexities that deserve a more nuanced analysis. Order RPP $15.50.

Panthology 3 and Panthology 4

(Coltsfoot Press)

These short-story collections provided the model for the Acolyte Reader series published by Coltsfoot's successor, and many of the authors will be familiar to fans of those anthologies. In Panthology 3: a whore's son is set up to trap a boy-lover, only to find his own heart trapped; a rich 14-year-old falls in love with a gigolo; a young camper is abducted (to his delight) from a train; and lots more. In Panthology 4: a 13-year-old-boy robot has human feelings; a boy at summer camp falls in love with his counselor; a boy-lover rescues two young beggars in Calcutta; and much more. Order PAN3 or PAN4, $22.00 each.

Pulling It Off, by Joseph Winchester

(Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

Readers will differ on the validity of "Dr." Joseph Winchester's claim that this book is a non-fiction account of the "masturbation practices of American boys." Certainly, its value as a scientific document or even oral history is quite limited. It might serve as a test of one hypothesis: it's as hard to resist reading about jerking off as it is to resist doing it. And it doesn't take a Nobel prize winner to predict that readers will have as much trouble keeping their idle hands from becoming the devil's play- things as do the boys depicted in the text. Perhaps that's what makes Pulling It Off an paradigm of the scientific method--it encourages its audience to launch its own experiments into the matter at hand. SOLD OUT

Shakespeare's Boy, by Casmir Dukahz

(Acolyte Press, 248 pp)

The final book and the only novel written by Dukahz before his death in 1988 is removed by centuries from his whimsical accounts of 20th Century America. He uses the Elizabethan Age and the world of Shakespeare's Globe Theater as the backdrop for the story of Ruy, orphan and actor. The 13- year-old thespian achieves instant and tumultuous fame in the role of Juliet, but his romances off-stage are as passionate as anything the Immortal Bard ever envisioned. Seduced by tramps and kings, Ruy's gender- bending on stage lends spice to homoerotic encounters that begin once the curtain falls. Order DSB $15.50

Singularities, Book 1 by Robert Campbell

(Acolyte Press, 192 pp)

The stories in Singularities focus on man-boy relationships in a variety of settings, punctuated with a series of parodies of newspaper advice columns that would make Ann Landers blush--at the very least. Campbell's vision spans a Caribbean island, a military prep school, a junior varsity football team and a lonely outpost in the African desert. Though much of the value of Singularities comes from the variety of plot and settings, recurring themes provide an underlying unity to Campbell's writing. One is the persistence, ingenuity and resilience of pederast relationships that thrive even in the most hostile environments; another is the contrast between the expansive joy of those relationships and the crabbed morality of religious bigots who condemn them. SOLD OUT

Something Like Happiness, by Kevin Esser

(Acolyte Press, 202 pp)

Andy Damon swipes a picture of Caravaggio's Victorious Amor from his small-town Midwestern library and launches himself on a libidinous adventure that introduces him to a world of pot smoking, kiddie porn and anything-goes sex parties. Along the way he meets a host of boys not so different from himself: the black Spinks twins, Snickers and Deacon, Manny and Fernando Fuentes, track star Timmy Jenco and Matthew, the neighborhood paper boy. Some are "gay" and some are "straight," but they're all grist for sexy Andy's mill. Esser captures the excitement of the young male animal with exceptionally vivid prose and reveals a touching sensitivity when Andy's sex-hunt becomes a search for true love. Order ESL $15.50

Strange Catharsis, by Daniel Mallery

(Acolyte Press, 240 pp)

When Richard Eldred takes a job as house parent at a boarding school for problem children located in the wild Scottish highlands, he hopes the isolation will restore the inspiration that's has seeped away after a series of best-selling novels and film scripts. But he finds a growing attraction to the boys at the school that suggests a deeply buried motivation. There's Danny, a tough boy exploding through puberty, who battles authority with his fists. And Hansa, a gentler, reserved boy desperately seeking love. And Steve, whose perfectly developed runner's body hides a heartsickness. As Eldred helps them solve their problems, he finds a solution to his own alienation--but one that challenges him to respond to feelings he's long suppressed. Mallery's compelling novel has needlessly Gothic plot complications, but is both warm and sexy. Order MSC $17.50

The Trucker and the Teens, by Louis Colantuono

(Coltsfoot Press)

The title of Louis Colantuono's autobiography suggests a cheap porno paperback, and when the book's at it's best, it reads like one, too. Colantuono offers descripffons of the countless boys he encounters, and attempts to suggest the emoffonal depths. of his relaffonships. But he's obviously happiest wriffng dialogue like "Quick, Louie, I want you to do my bongo. . . Bone me good." Twice jailed for sex with boys, Colantuono created this unabashed record of his non-stop sex life between 1969 and 1975. Order CTT, $22.00

• BIOGRAPHY*

Anarchist of Love by Hubert Kennedy

(NAMBLE, 54 pp, sc)

Anarchist philosopher John Henry Mackay was recognized as an artist as well as a political thinker -- this contemporary Richard Strauss set some of Mackay poetry to music. He was also a founder of modern gay liberation, offering a radical challenge to colleague Magnus Hirschfield’s leadership. Finally, Mackay was a lover of adolescent boys who created a body of literature, The Books of the Nameless Love, exploring his sexual feelings. Hubert Kennedy's appreciation of Mackay reveals how the philosopher's love of boys influenced his political thinking a how he lived out his politics and philosophy in his life with boys. Order KAL $5.50

The Basketball Diaries, by Jim Carroll

(Penguin, 210 pp)

The book that was the basis for the hit movie has more wit, more truth and more sex than the screen version (though it doesn't have Leonardo DiCaprio). Apparently Carroll was too blase about peddling his meat to homebound businessmen in the toilets of Grand Central Station for Hollywood to deal with. So 20 years after the publication of his memoirs, the silver screen gets a sanitized version for public consumption. If you want the real stuff, here it is. Order CBD $12.50

Boys Like Us, edited by Patrick Merla

Subtitled "Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories," this collection of autobiographical pieces is a vivid window into the sexual awakening of boys. The accounts include Samuel Delaney's realization (at age 11) that his lust for other boys at summer camp made him somehow different, Michael Nava's single night of sex with his 16-year-old high school debating partner and Matthew Stadler's fruitless attempts to seduce his friends in eigth grade. Other writers, like Michael Carroll, Douglas Sadownick and Rodney Christopher describe happy and successful experiences with other boys (at age 12, 15 and 18 respectively). Edmund White remembers a trip to Mexico at 14 where he had sex for the first time, with a grown man who played piano in the hotel bar. Order MBL, $25.50

Calamus Lovers: Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados, edited by Charley Shively

(Gay Sunshine Press, 220 pp)

Calamus Lovers examines the poet's relations with common men of the 19th century. Edward Carpenter, an English lover, wrote: The unconscious, uncultured, natural types pleased him best." Many letters from some of these "natural types," often unpublished until now, place Whitman's Calamus poems in context and provide a unique insight into gay life in those years. Charley Shively identifies correspondents as Whitman's lovers and pinpoints for the first time Fred Vaughan as the inspiration for the poems. Besides introductions and commentaries on the letters, Shively presents a selection of Whitman's gayest poems. Order SCL $11.50

Drum Beats: Walt Whitman's Civil Boy Lovers, edited by Charley Shively

(Gay Sunshine Press, 256 pp)

Drum Beats offers exciting letters to poet Walt Whitman from fifty soldiers and lovers, including the drummer boys and other youth who made up the mostly-teenage Union army during the Civil War. Charley Shively's introduction contains a startling re-vision of the war and of Whitman's poetry. Published from original manuscripts, the letters provide eloquent testimony of the common soldier's love for Whitman ("Wound Dresser and Good Kisser"). Shively has also found remarkable new material on Abraham Lincoln's gay love life and on the homosexual underworld of John Wilkes Booth. Order SDB $12.50

For a Lost Soldier, by Rudi von Dantzig

During the winter of 1944 in occupied Holland. 11-year-old Jeroen is evacuated to a small fishing community on the desolate coast of Friesland, where he meets Walt, a young Canadian soldier with the liberating forces. Their relationship immerses the young boy in a tumultuous world of emotional and sexual experiece, suddennly cur- tailed when the Allies move on and Walt disappears. Back home in Amsterdam, a city in the throes of liberation fever, Jeroen searches for the soldier he has lost. A child's fears and confused emotions have rarely been described with such depth of understanding, and seen as it is from the child's viewpoint, it invites total empathy. Order DFL, $16.50

Growing Up Gay in the South, by James T. Sears

(Harrington Park Press, 560 pp, hc)

Thirteen biographies provide the starting point for examination of the unique pressures faced by gay children in the South, including family name and family honor, the pervasiveness of religious fundamentalism and the intensity of adolescent culture. Jonathon Kozol called it "a wonderful portrayal of the way all kids grow up--the cliques that form, the sense of pecking order, the fear of being spurned..." Sears also highlights the courage of young people who find themselves sexual rebels and make the most of their rebellion. Order SGU, $21.50

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline, by David Wojnarowicz

(Artspace Books, 61 pp)

David Wojnarowicz was one of the most provocative artists of his generation. In prose and pictures, he explores memory, the longing for love and sexuality in the specter of AIDS in Memories That Smell Like Gasoline. His extraordinary life, beginning with his days as a "kid prostitute in New York" before his tenth birthday, is recalled in ten cartoon/comic narratives, in paintings of Third Avenue porno movie houses (before Heath Department closures in 1988), ten diary entries and a series of dream-like memoirs. These episodes from artists life create a sometimes devastating, always sublime document about coming of age in America. Order WMT $16.50

The Orton Diaries, edited by John Lahr

Popular playwrite Joe Orton was beaten to death with a hammer by his lover, Kennith Halllwell, in 1967. Halllwell then committed suicide, leaving a note that claimed Orton's diaries would explain everything. The playwrite's account of the last eight months of his life, published in this volume, certainly don't leave anything out.They include a record of the -two months Orton and Halllwell spent in Tanglers, where both indulged in unlinhibited encounters with Morrocan teenagers. Edited by Orton biographer John Lahr, the diaries reveal both the sharp wit and the fascination with sleazy sex that mark Orton's work for the stage. Order LOD, $16.50

Reflections of a Rock Lobster, by Aaron Fricke

(Alyson Publications, 116 pp)

Aaron Fricke was a gay teenager who came out in a big way: he went to court to win the right to take another guy as his date for the senior prom in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Just a year earlier, Fricke said, he would never have dreamed about being open about his gay feelings. Reflections of a Rock Lobster is his autobiography, a gripping story about growing up gay and coming to terms with being different. Order FRR $7.50

Sudden Strangers, by Aaron and Walter Fricke

(St. Martin's Press, 112 pp)

The lawsuit that won Aaron Fricke the right to bring a male date to his high school prom made him a celebrity, but it meant curiously little in his relationship with his father. Walter's approval of his son's plan was less an acceptance of Aaron's life that a withdrawal from it. In the six years that followed, both embarked on journeys that moved them far apart (and, coincidentally, brought each of them to jail) but never quite severed the bond between them. Sudden Strangers frankly examines their loving but always- uneasy relationship. Order FSS $10.50

Ryan White: My Own Story, by Ryan White and Ann Marie Cunningham

Ryan White was 18 when he died on April 8, 1990; five years before the town of Kokomo, Indiana had denied him the right to attend public school classes because he had AIDS. As he battled against that discrimination, White caught the attention of the world. A modest, somewhat shy boy, he accepted the role of spokesperson for people with AIDS and used it to teach the world a valuable lesson in compassion, courage and humanity. His book reveals that behind the admirable poise this attractive teenager displayed in his encounters with celebrities like Michael Jackson, Elton John and Elizabeth Taylor, Ryan struggled with heartache in the few private moments he could claim. The contrast between the vital, smiling Ryan in the many photographs included in the book and the tender simplicity of his conversation with his mother over what clothes to bury him in is typical of the range spanned by this heartbreaking, hopeful story. Order WOS $6.50

• FICTION*

Ambidextrous, by Felice Picano

(Hard Candy Books, 336 pp)

Critics howled that Picano's novel about "The Secret Lives of Children" was unbelievable, because real boys, 11 to 13 years old, never had sexual adventures like those detailed here. And Picano pointed out that his book was a "memoir in the form of a novel" and the adventures in Ambidextrous were his own. The irony is that Picano's suburbs in the Fifties weren't remarkable only for sexual opportunities, both hetero and homosexual, it offered to kids in middle-class neighborhoods. His deeper revelation is that adults imposed a version of their children's lives that had nothing to do with the reality the youngsters lived. Critics thirty years later are still loath to admit the truth. But Picano's account of the erotic adventures of his playmates is an attempt to recognize children as fully human, with needs and interests that they pursue regardless of adult objections. Order PAM $8.50

The Badboy Book of Erotic Poetry, edited by David Laurents

(Masquerade Books: New York, 1995)

This 400-page collection includes at least two dozen poems explicitly about boy-love. Nine fine pieces by Antler open the book, and throughout the volume. pederasty is easily the favorite subject in this comprehensive anthology of gay poetry about sex. Prudish boy lovers might be embarrassed, since the poems are often about love occasionally about romance but always about sex- kissing, fondling, fucking, sucking and a host of interesting variations on that theme. The variety of voices Badboy hears on the subject of boy-love is as impressive as the number. And to find them chiming loudly in a chorus of gay writers celebrating all sorts of sex is refreshing. Order BBE, $7.50

Barely Legal, edited by John Patrick

(Star Books, 507 pp, sc)

What's legal in one place and time. Patrick points out in his introduc- tion, is often forbidden in another, and some of the boys in the stories collected here would be off-base in more conservative jurisdictions. Generally, though, the stories are of older teens. and while the boys are always young, they are rarely innocent. Hustlers and porn stars turn up in a surprising number of tales, though with more than 500 pages of stories. guys who prefer the shy, boy-next-door-type will find some pieces to please as well. Order PBL, $16.50

The Bavarian Chronicles I, by Julius

(Avenue Services, 100 pp, sc)

"The Legacy of Slava," part one of The Bavarian Chronicles, is presented in this steamy adult comic book. Like the pictures, the story is realistic enough to be genuinely sexy but with an air of the exotic that makes it very definitely a fantasy. Slava's a young refugee in World War II who trades a blow job for a loaf of bread. His deal with a hunky German soldier sets off a sexual daisy chain that eventually includes daddies and their teenage sons, strapping Polish farmhands, the soldiers of four different armies and even Granpa Otto. Julius devotes each page to a single drawing of his lusty band of wartime lovers, depicting Aryan boys with uncut dicks, older teens just sprouting pubic hair and full grown hirsute hunks with massive cocks, all with beautiful bodies and a potent energy. Order JBC, $21.50

The Bavarian Chronicles II, by Julius

(Avenue Services, 100 pp, sc)

Volume II continues Julius/ sexy tale of smooth-skinned boys and big- dicked daddies frolicking in wartime Germany. Readers might experience guilty pleasures as German schoolboy Klaus flirts with fascism as a species of homoeroticism -- but it's Klaus' anti-nazi father, a sturdy socialist blacksmith, who turns out to be the hottest hunk of all. And the political charicatures are a thin veneer to carry an unrestrained fantasy about a world where sex between men and boys is common currency. With 100 full-page drawings to tell the tale, The Bavarian Chronicles II offers a dizzying collection of portraits of man-boy couples sucking, fucking, kissing and snuggling. Order JB2, $21.50

Bedrooms Have Windows, by Kevin Killian

(Amethyst Press, 134 pp)

Some of us can remember a moment in the Seventies when it seemed important to figure out what persona David Bowie, who'd already burned through Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, might adopt next. Kevin Killian's novel of teenage years in Smithtown, Long Island elevates that moment with a glittering, shiny prose and a story line studded with dark sexual secrets. Kevin Killian's Kevin Killian is having an affair with Carey Denham, who's old enough to be his father and Kevin wants to meet Carey's teenage son. The window to this bedroom showcases a fabulous, funny house of mirrors, where everything appears more than once, and always distorted. Order KBH $11.50

Bom-Crioulo, by Adolfo Caminha

(Gay Sunshine Press, 141 pp)

One hundred years ago, an impoverished Brazilian writer published this tale of a 15-year-old cabin boy and the brawny black sailor driven to possess him sexually. Caminha himself had been a teenage midshipman on a Brazilian navy ship; his novel, writes translator E.A. Lacey, "remains a truly revolutionary work: revolutionary in its denunciation of slavery, sadism, cruelty and man's exploitation of man, revolutionary in its revelation of society's complicity, its conspiracy of silence regarding all these abuses; revolutionary in its startling attitudes toward homosexuality, towards race, towards interracial and interage contacts. ...Its message echoes beyond our time." Order CBC $9.50

The Boy Harlequin, by Girard Kent

(Gay Sunshine Press, 205 pp, sc)

An outstanding series of stories--some funny, some deeply romantic--that returns again and again to the theme of man-boy love. The author struggles with the same contradiction that faces many of the protagonists in these stories he's well aware of the allure of sex with adolescents (and writes about it vividly), but isn't quite ready to admit the strength of his attraction to himself. Kent explores his own conflict through the lives of his characters, delivering insight into the mind of a reluctant boy-lover as well as compelling, sexy stories whose satisfactions can be shared by any reader. Order KTB, $9.50

The Boy Without a Flag, by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.

(Milkweed Editions, 115 pp)

This book of interrelated short-stories gives a voice to the Hispanic teenagers of today's South Bronx, a voice the Puerto Rican author sharpens in his own dialogues with the teenagers hanging out in the South Bronx neighborhood where he grew up. "These are the kids no one likes to talk about," Rodriguez explains. "They are seen as the enemy by most people. I want to show them as they are, not as society wishes them to be." Here are stories filled with hope and pathos: Angel, thirteen years old and living on the street, learns that dealing crack is his best alternative to burglary. Sixteen-year-old Elba goes out dancing, leaving her wailing baby alone in her apartment. SOLD OUT

A Boy's Own Story, by Edmund White

(Plume, 218 pp)

An intelligent, alienated youngster comes to grips with his sexuality in a novel by an acknowledged master of modern prose. A Boy's Own Story is set in the years that lead from childhood to maturity, full of romantic notions and disillusionments. A bittersweet novel of adolescent sexuality, it evokes memories of the perplexing rites of passage, the comic sexual experiments, the first broken heart and the thrill of forbidden longing. Order WBO $11.50

The Boys on the Rock, by John Fox

(St. Martin's Press, 146 pp, sc)

Set in the Bronx in the 60s, John Fox's novel details the emotional life of a high-school swimmer who becomes involved in Eugene McCarthy's idealistic campaign for president and discovers a passion for more than politics. His affair with a college student from the campaign has all the magic of first love but also the threat of a broken heart. When his older lover realizes that a gay lifestyle threatens his plans for a life in politics, both struggle to make a difficult choice between the demands of the heart and the realities of homophobia. Order FBR, $10.50

Closer, by Dennis Cooper

(Grove Press, 131 pp, sc)

The characters of Closer, California-perfect denizens of the LA-area punk scene of the 80s, recoil from emotion and commitment as though they were allergic to caring or compassion, but desire persists. Driven, with increasing desperation, to find in sex something more than the collisions of flesh and blood, they play with drugs and violence. A bleak and some- times horrifying vision, Closer offers no pat solutions to their alienation but somehow suggests an ineffable presence on the edge of the void. Order CCL, $10.50

Cody, by Keith Hale

(AlyCat Books, 191 pp)

Steven Trottingham Taylor, "Trotsky" to his friends, is new in Little Rock. Washington Damon Cody has lived their all his life. Yet, when the teens meet in a high school classroom, there's a familiarity, a sense that they've known each other before. Their friendship grows and develops a rare intensity, but Trotsky's afraid to act out his sexual passions with his new best friend. It takes the 14-year-old sleep-over pal of Trotsky's younger brother to get him over that hurdle. Rich in both romance and tragedy, Keith Hale's adolescent love story has a special charm. SOLD OUT

Costa Brava, by Frits Bernard

(Southernwood Press, 80 pp)

Written in Dutch in the summer of 1958 and published in the same language two years later, this novella treated with tenderness and sensibility a theme, pedophilia, which was at the time almost never discussed in public. By the time it was first translated into English in 1982 it was much sought after in Dutch and had been pirated in a German edition. The story of the love between a 12-year-old Spanish boy during that country's civil war and a South American tourist who rescues him is reported without overt sexuality but with warmth and feeling. Hubert Kroilus' illustrations in this second English printing make graphic the erotic subtext that lies unspoken in the tale itself. SOLD OUT

Cry to Heaven, by Anne Rice

(Ballantine Books, 565 pp, sc) Order RCH $8.50

=That Day at the Quarry, by Tom Shaw

Michael Bronski writes in his introduction that That Day at the Quarry is about what it means to become a men in America. For the narrator of this autobiographical novel, becoming a man means becoming a queer, earning the right to suck cock. It's a privilege not granted without struggle, as his friends are boarding school kids with a shared interest in the tortures inflicted by Native Americans on their captives and the interrogation practices in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps. When the boys begin to express their fascination on the bodies of each other, they create a rite of passage that delivers both knowledge and pleasure both purchased at great price. Not quite a tale of torture, it s certainly one of the most rigorous initiation available. This is sadism not as a fantasy game played by men with store-bought whips and expensive leather but as a very real quest organized by teens with the odds and ends of garage and junk yard. Bob and Jim are winners in a poker game that delivers the narrator into their hands for 24 hours. He discovers in that night and a day the very limit of what his body can endure and finds at that limit the beginnings of an erotic life. Order STD. $10.50

=Entries from a Hot Pink Notebook, by Todd Brown

While coming-of-age stories have provided many of the classics of gay literature, Todd Brown's novel of a Reagan-era teen breaks new ground. Ben, his hero, sits watching TV with his Christian fundamentalist grandma as Oprah tries to convince America that gay is good. Brown tells the story of Ben's first love and difficult exit from the closet in a narrative that reveals a particularly post-modern gay teen's life with insight sensitivity and humor. Ben's dysfunctional family and small-town community could easily have been rendered as stereotype, but Brown weaves enough surprises into his tale so that his hero's experiences are representative, but never sink to the level of cliche. Order BEF, $11.50

Fenny Skaller, by John Henry Mackay

(Southernwood Press, 166 pp)

John Henry Mackay's poetry had already won him the description of an "anarchist lyricist" when he began writing The Books of the Nameless Love in 1905. Fenny Skaller is one of those books, a novel in which the Scotch- German philosopher traces the lives and loves of a man in his forties as he reminisces over a collection of photographs of boys he has known. His night-time reflections reveal pathos and heartbreak, but also a growing self-awareness and acceptance of himself as a boy-lover. With the dawn, Fenny Skaller finds hope and happiness. The volume also includes short prose pieces from The Books of the Nameless Love. SOLD OUT

The God in Flight, by Laura Argiri

Precoclous Simion Satterwhite is just 16 when he arrives at Yale University in 1878, fleeing an abusive fundamentalist father. He meets 31-year-old art professor Doriskos Klionarios and embarks on an emotionally reckless court- ship. Argiri's style recalls the great Victonan novels and the works of Chades Dickens, creating a world-where love is pure and passion triumphs (after 478 compelling pages!) over pain. Order AGI, $14.50

Huck and Billy, by James Medley

(Masquerade Books, 316 pp, sc)

The current anti-sex hysteria has had a curious effect on gay erotica, and the evidence is here in Huck and Billy. Obviously, guys want to read about sexy boys. but publishers are nervous about age-of-consent laws. even as they apply to fictional characters! So Huck and Billy is full of 18-year- olds who look 15, 20-year-old high school students and various other literary dodges. Medley gets to write about boys without really admitting it. Rest assured, though, however many candles Medley's character's are burning on their birthday cakes, this is a book about adolescent sex. The long title story is a murder mystery about teenage hustlers. But it's in the dozen shorter pieces that round out the book that Medley's most effective: a brief introduction to sketch an appealing character and set up a situation, then straight to the sexy climax. MHB. $6.50

In Youth Is Pleasure, by Denton Welch

(Exact Change, 254 pp)

William Burroughs names Denton Welch as the writer who "has most directly influenced my own work." It's a measure of Welch's power that an author whose style is, on the surface, so completely different, names him as a mentor. But what is shared by the Burroughs brutal novels of sex, drugs and death and Welch's narrative of life in the British countryside is the boy-hero who sees a different world beneath the reality shared by others. And they key to that world is in to the homoerotic gaze of the youth in question. The volume also contains a fragment from Welch's journal left unfinished at his death at the age of 33. Order WYP $15.50

The Liar, by Stephen Fry

(Soho Press, 277 pp, sc)

A comic novel about a likable young British student who simply can't tell the truth, The Liar is both a series of hilarious setpieces and a tightly plotted parody of espionage thrillers with more genuine surprises than many authentic examples of the genre. From boarding school tart to duplicitous coach of a boy's cricket team to college campus forger (passing of a play about pedophile incest as a genuine undiscovered manuscript by Charles Dickens!), Adrian's just getting started. Critics cite Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh and even Monty Python as Fry’s predecessors, and this first novel demonstrates he's worthy of such praise. Order FTL $12.50

The Lusty Gods of Bramapur, by Julius

(Avenue Services, 100 pp, sc)

Another erotic comic by Julius, this tale starts in a boarding school called Masxonhurst, where Andrew meets with his teacher for special tutoring sessions. After some hands-on lessons in the sexual customs of exotic lands, Andrew gets to make his own investigations. An incredible journey introduces him to the secret traditions of an ancient culture and to the horny modern men and boys who keep the sexual rites alive. Every page is a picture, with just enough text to thread together these images of guys throbbing, thrusting, hugging and cumming in every imaginable position (and a few positions that defy the imagination!). Order JLG, $21.50

The Man Without a Face, by Isabelle Holland

(Harper Keypoint, 157 pp)

Originally published in 1972, the novel that was the basis for the hit movie differs from the screen version in several interesting ways. Instead of exposing a town's intolerance about a relationship it can't understand, Holland focuses on the boy's own conflicts. And where the film suppressed the physical element of this love between a teacher and pupil, it's a key facet in the novel. Order HMW $5.50

=Mike and Me, by Anonymous

Mike joined his junior-college gymnastics squad to bulk up on muscle. But between his buffed teammates and his sexy younger cousin, he ends up burning more calories in the bedroom that on the gym floor. The locker room becomes his cruising ground, and since cousin Kevin's a star on the wrestling team, every young jock in town gets a spot on Mike's sexual wish list. By the time the gymnastics squad heads for the regional finals, the cream of Minnesota's athletic community is lining up for a minute with Mike. Non-stop sex action and not much else, Mike and Me will keep you turning the pages- with one hand, at best. Order AMM, $6.50

=My Three Boys, edited by John Patrick

With more than 500 pages to fill with stories about boys having sex in threesomes {and foursomes and moresomes), editor John Patrick has room to explore several satisfying themes hot young athletes finding out what male bonding really means, sexy teens from various countries and cultures (Italian, Hispanic. Asian and more), romantic encounters and sleazy ones as well and the importance of the automobile as a sex toy. The complete novel My Three Boys is included, an impressive work that features erotic writing good enough to maintain interest over 20 chapters of steamy tropical sex. Boasting both quality and quantity, My Three Boys is a collection of erotica that promises maximum satisfaction. Order PMT, $16.50

=My Worst Date, by David Leddick

Hugo looks like a typical Miami teenager; the 16-year-old hangs out at the beach, works a part-time job to save money for college and dates someone his single mother wouldn't approve of. But Hugo is anything but typical. His job isn't at the local pizza place, like he told his mother, but at a gay bar, where he dances as a go-go boy. And the person he's seeing on the sly is a much older man--who's also dating Hugo's mother. David Leddick's comic first novel uses the glamorous ambiance of South Beach Miami to good advantage and offers a cast of amusing characters. According to Quentin Crisp, "the descriptions of sex make D.H. Lawrence seem like Barbara Cartland, but it's about more than sex." Order LMW, $24.50

=The Mysterious Skin, by Scott Heim

When a Little Leaguer wakes up with a bloody nose in the crawl space of his small-town Kansas house with no memory of how he got there or what happened to him in the past several hours, it triggers an obsession that focuses on abduction by a UFO. But his search for an answer leads him to a former Little League teammate, now a teenage hustler with a definite penchant for older men he traces back to the coach of that team. Heim's vivid prose is as open as the grain fields of the Kansas farm belt where his story takes place. If this were the Kansas Dorothy knew, nothing in Oz would have surprised her. Heim's first novel is an impressive literary debut and an absorbing tale, by turns sexy, funny and troubling. Order HMS, $14.00

Persecuted Minority, by Frits Bernard

(Southernwood Press, 98 pp)

A fifteen year old school boy falls in love with his teacher. His father discovers a love letter. The teacher and the boy spend a day by the sea, and the consequences are disastrous. Persecuted Minority asks if a love condemned and outlawed can survive. In the Netherlands, at least, the book helped to overturn the laws criminalizing homosexual relationships for boys between 16 and 21 years old. The Southernwood Press edition of this historic novel is beautifully designed and printed. Order BPM $11.50

The Persian Boy, by Mary Renault

(Vintage Books, 419 pp, sc)

History tells us much about the conquests of Alexander the Great, whose military campaigns brought virtually all the world he knew under his domination. And history even hints of his relationship with Bagoas. a Persian slave who became the emperor's lover. But it takes a work of imagination to breath life and passion into this age-old tale. Mary Renault has provided that imagination in a moving and convincing novel that follows Bagoas from the home of his honored father to a life of degradation and whoredom and finally to the bed of the most powerful man of the ancient era. Order RPB, $14.50

Playing Soldiers in the Dark, by Mark Dueweke

(Bagman Press, 294 pp)

"Mad" Donnelly is a physics teacher with a fiancee who's getting tired of waiting for him to make it to the altar. Jim Brandeker is the teen -age son of the leading family in the small town where he's grown up. Everybody, gay and straight, is trying to get Jim in bed, but it takes his eccentric instructor to help him sort out his own emerging sexuality. And that just compounds the confusion of all the other players in this comic drama. Dueweke makes poetry from Fruit of the Loom briefs and the rasp of zippers unfurling. His lyrical prose serves as foreplay while the novel builds to a steamy climax. SOLD OUT

Ragged Dick, by Horatio Alger

(Signet Classic, 186 pp, sc)

The first successful book by the writer who became the most renowned author of boy's fiction in history. As the introduction to this new edition notes. Alger's books relied on a formula: poor but honest boy makes good, thanks to hard work and the help of a older male friend. But that formula meant some-thing real to Alger (who was dismissed from the ministry over charges of "unnatural" relationships with boys--charges he never denied). Today Alger is remembered as the apostle of unfettered capitalist competition rereading his books, one is struck that, more than the world of commerce where his boys labored to succeed, Alger champions the warm bond between a generous man and an attractive boy that provided both of them with a respite from the cut-throat world of the market and the street. Order ARD, $6.50

=Rolling the R's, by R. Zambora Linmark

Still two years shy of puberty, the hero of R. Zamora Linmark's first novel is ready and eager to come of age. Edgar's too busy to do his fifth grade homework because he's building a queer identity for himself, taking "No- Doz, Folger's and Coca Cola" to fuel endless hours of watching skin flicks and Charlie's Angels. Lip synching to Donna Summer along with his own gang of bad girls, he dreams of kissing Scott Baio from Happy Days while getting real-life sex education from the grade-school janitor while the other kids play football at recess. Rolling the R's rushes like a roller coaster, mixing all-American pop culture with the unique polyglot heritage of the Hawaiian Islands. But anchoring this wild ride is a poignant feeling for what it's like to be a boy who knows he's queer- and knows what he's up against- years before anyone else is ready to acknowledge his feelings. Order LRT $23.00

Runaways/Kid Stuff, by John Patrick, editor

(Star Books, 635 pp, sc)

The respective titles pretty much define the specific themes of this two-books-in-one collection of a seeming endless supply of teen sex. Runaways mixes fiction with true-life accounts of homeless boys whose experience range from romantic encounters with older dream lovers to humiliating bouts of S&M action as boy sex-slaves. Kid Stuff contains more carefree pleasures, adolescence recalled in stories like "Game Night, My First Lesson" and "Matty Makes the Team." Order PRD, $16.50

Seduced by John Patrick, editor

(Star Books, 639 pp, sc)

Seduced has all the hot sex familiar to fans of Patrick's other books but adds a bit more romance than usual. Lots of stories of teen-age boys sampling sex for the first time, exploring the eroticism of innocence. Far less innocent is a long account- presented as true- of a 6-story boy brothel that functioned in the U.S. through the 1950s and early 1960s. Finally, a complete novel subtitled "The Erotic Confessions of a Teen Idol." Order PSD. $16.50

=The Sex Offender, by Matthew Stadler

In this scary tale from the not-to-distant future, a teacher who has sex with one of his students is sent for mental-reconditioning and given a new identity. As Mr. Uh-uh, the offender uncovers a secret world that mocks the puritanism of his society and finds that true passion draws him inevitably away from the "normalcy" of a world where love can be a crime. Both a darkly comic story and a sophisticated analysis of identity and sexuality, Stadler's ambitious novel is an important and enduring work. Order SSO $13.50

The Singalong Tribe, by Kent Ashford

(Gay Men's Press, 182 pp)

The callboys of the Singalong Pension work with one aim in view: to escape the poverty and hardship of Manila. Amid that squalor that tourists consider exotic, the boys have only their bodies and their cunning to keep themselves alive. Vividly set in the Philippines, this is a story of money, sex and the quest for social justice. Kent Ashford spent many years as a journalist in Southeast Asia, and he uses his first-hand knowledge of the region to provide realism to his tale. The Singalong Tribe also shows genuine concern for the people of the Philippines and provides a fascinating vision of their culture. Order AST $9.00

Superfag, by Daniel Curzon

(Igna Press, 218 pp, sc)

Daniel Curzon's satirical novel opens with God sending his son to earth on a mission to rid the world of homophobia. Dubbed Superfag instead of Jesus Christ, this younger Son of God nearly faces of crucifixion of his own when he’s caught giving a pubescent boy a blow job in a tree house. He escapes, barely, and is launched on a series of adventures that hilariously high- light bigotry and hypocrisy in politics, religion, the media and "just plain folks." Curzon, one of the pioneers of gay fiction, takes on an entire herd of sacred cows in a funny novel that honors the original radical spirit of gay liberation. Order CSF, $11.50

=The Swimming Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst (Vintage International, 336 pp)

This stunning literary debut was a sensation and a bestseller in both England and America, enthralling and darkly erotic. William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat leads a life of pleasure and promiscuity. His pursuit of pleasure began with boyhood adventures with schoolmates and continues with his cruising London, an eye open for the young and willing working-class partners he prefers. When he meets elderly Lord Nantwich, an old African hand seeking a biographer, Beckwith learns of another era of boy-loving when the consequences were often disastrous. Bristling with wit and spunk, Hollinghurst's novel is absorbing and delightful. Order HSP $13.50

Talking to Strange Men, by Ruth Rendell

(Pantheon Books, 280 pp, hc)

Ruth Rendell is the best mystery writer working today. In Talking to Strange Men, she weaves with a sure hand the lives of an enthusiastic schoolboy, an embittered shop clerk and boy-lover trying desperately to avoid temptation and further problems with the law. When the clerk stumbles across a coded message, he thinks he's discovered an actual espionage ring, rather than an elaborate game of spy-vs.-spy between boys at rival British boarding schools. He decides to hook his ex-wife's new lover into the affair. That sets boy and boy-lover on a collision course with terrifying consequences, in a plot with enough surprises to keep it compelling through its conclusion. Along the way, savor Rendell's brisk prose and here eye for telling detail. A special purchase makes it possible for Ariel's pages to offer this hardcover book at a paperback price. Order RTT, $9.50

Terre Haute, by Will Aitken

(Delta, 274 pp)

"I'm going home and I'm going to tell my father exactly what you did to me." Author Will Aitken imagined these words in the mouth of a 15-year-old boy, then built this novel around them. Sex, for a young boy, is a great discovery. But when a young boy is betrayed by love, sex can become a powerful weapon-especially when used against a married man. Terre Haute is the story of one very memorable year in the life of Jared McCaverty, who has just discovered sex, but has not yet discovered what it means. Exploring his feelings with the tough new kid in school and the urbane director of his small town's art museum, Jared comes to realize the power and the peril offered by his sexuality. SOLD OUT

That Day at the Quarry, by Tom Shaw

(Outbound Press, 156 pp, sc)

According to Michael Bronski's introduction, That Day at the Quarry is about what it means to become a man in America. For the narrator of this autobiography novel, becoming a man means becoming a queer, earning the right to suck cock. It's a privilege not granted without struggle, because his friends are kids with a shared interest in the tortures inflicted by Native Americans on their captives and the interrogation practices in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps. When the boys begin to express their fascination on the bodies of each other, they create a rite of passage that delivers knowledge and pleasure, both purchased at great price. Not quite a tale of torture, it does describe the most rigorous initiation imaginable.This is sadism not as a fantasy game played by men with store-bought whips and expensive leather but as a very real quest organized by teens with the odds and ends of garage and junkyard. Bob and Jim are winners in a poker game that delivers the narrator into their hands for 24 hours. He discovers in that day the very limit of what his body can endure and finds at that limit the beginnings of an erotic life. Order STD $10.50

Touched, by Scott Campbell

(Bantam Books, 313 pp, hc)

When 12-year-old Robbie Young comes home from the mall and tells his

mother, "Jerry Houseman's been touching me," he's not prepared for the power of his announcement. The revelation does far more than end the year-long relationship between a small town mailman and a boy beginning to feel the restless independence of adolescence. Scott Campbell's novel, narrated in turn by Robbie's mother, by Jerry himself, by Jerry's wife and by Robbie (fifteen years after the fact) chronicles the harrowing results of a collision between love and law. Like each of the characters, readers too will be touched by the cruelty of a system that offers to solace to neither man nor boy and serves only those hungry for revenge. Order CTD $24.00

Try, by Dennis Cooper

(Grove Press, 199 pp, softcover)

Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy,

the adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells kiddie-porn videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a fierce and awkward devotion. In Try, Cooper illuminates with utter clarity the need to possess wholly something that will fill the profound emptiness of the human soul. Order CTR, $12.50

User, by Bruce Benderson

(Plume/Penguin Books: New York, 1995)

Bruce Benderson's User presents a society just as scary- and it's our own! Benderson's portrayal of a street hustler and dope addict named Apollo is both hilarious and unsparing: it only hurts when you laugh. Apollo's violent encounter with the bouncer in a porno theater puts him at the center of a circle of sharply observed characters: Detective Pargero, who investigates the assault on his Times Square turf with an interest that's a little more than professional, Baby Pop, the 13-year-old son of the victim, a math genius junior-high dropout who's already turning tricks on his own, and one of Apollo's ex-tricks who's dying of AIDS and loneliness. Order BUS $11.50

When Jonathan Died, by Tony Duvert

(Gay Men's Press, 174 pp)

Like many novels, this book is the story of a love affair. What is less usual is that Jonathan, an artist, is almost thirty when the story starts, while Serge is a boy of eight. Duvert delivers a cool and matter-of-fact portrayal of a sensitive theme, a welcome alternative to the hysteria surrounding the age taboo in the English-speaking countries. Like all lovers, Jonathan and Serge create their own microcosm of domestic and erotic ritual, but theirs is a world that shatters on contact with the surrounding society. Duvert's novel is extraordinary because he makes the psychology of his characters more compelling rather than sensational, forcing readers to accept their relationship on its own terms. Nor does the author flinch from a heartrending conclusion that even Jonathan, deeply in love, sees all along is inevitable. Order DWJ $14.50

=Yes Is Such a Long Word, by Richard George Murray (Entimos Press: Amsterdam, 1995).

Another extreme is explored in Yes Is Such a Long Word, a tiny,

elegant book of very short poems by Richard George Murray. Where the Badboy collection scores with variety, George Murray's work explores one theme in depth. Even the few poems not explicitly about loving boys (which are mostly about loving cats!) seem to share the emotional ambiance of those that are. George Murray also sticks resolutely to the short form, often fitting more than one poem on a single page. Yet he's able to imbue impressive wit and warmth into a few short lines. The work opens up his world, so the brief poems invite readers to explore in their imagination the pictures quickly sketched in the poet's scenarios. This is the kind of poetry book to bring a smiles to people who don't like poetry. Order GYI, $15.50

Young Tom, by Forrest Reid

(Gay Men's Press, 169 pp)

The works of Forrest Reid powerfully conveys the essence of childhood. This first book of his trilogy about the life of English lad Tom Barber is published by Gay Men's Press, although the story contains no overtly gay content. But the gay ambiance is nonetheless palpable. Reid evokes rather than explains, and this classic 1944 novel captures him at the height of his powers. Order RYT $9.50

Youthful Days, by Anonymous

(Masquerade Books, 170 pp)

This Victorian tale of sex among public-school boys was considered shocking in its day and heavily censored. It's now available in its uncut form. Amusing as a period piece, with the typical British preoccupation for spanking bare bottoms, it's also pretty sexy. Four men from the upper classes make romp on Devonshire beaches, in the halls of family castles and in the back streets of Paris. SOLD OUT

*PERIODICALS*

Dirty, edited by Chris Leslie

Before we had pornography, we had dirty books. Those under-the-counter creations had a grit and vitality editor Chris Leslie finds missing in the "buffed boys" and "California gym queens" whose perfect (or airbrushed- to-perfection) looks dominate gay porn today. In many ways, his Dirty magazine is a throwback to that earlier era of smut. With its loving focus on banjee boy culture, though, its thoroughly modern, and its reviews of cruising sites, public sex scenes and hustler hangouts is positively up- to-the-minute. The magazine also features the photography of David Millspaugh, dirty personal ads and true-sex letters from readers. Order DY + Issue Number (1-7 available), $3.50 each.

Dirty #7, edited by Chris Leslie

The latest issue of the post-mod porn magazine devoted to the delights of

the "spunky, horny, funky banjee" includes photos by David Milspaugh and Rick Castro, a delicious Dirty adventure and all the Dirty fun you've come to expect from the first six issues. But like each of the first half-dozen, issue seven has a flavor (or izzat flava?) all its own. (Back issues still available; be as Dirty as you wanna be.) Order DY + Issue #, $3.50

The Everard Review, edited by C. Bard Cole

(J&H Publications)

This iconoclastic periodical isn't afraid to challenge the popular wisdom of current "progressive" gay thinkers by examining, with some sympathy, stereotypes of fags and dykes trashed by an earlier generation of activists. That’s one of a variety of provocative strategies that guarantees that the Everard Review will contain pieces that delight and others that disturb. Issue one: Gay Identity and Gay Dissent, Alan Gurganus interview, poetry, fiction and reviews. Issue two: Teenage Sex (A Retrospective), The Joy of Butch Sex, A Brief History of the Gay Pornographic Cinema. Order EV1 or EV2, $5.00 each.

GAYME, edited by Bill Andriette

The newest national gay periodical is fast becoming the most popular and is already, undoubtedly, the hottest. Gorgeous graphics complement incisive political commentary, fiction by important new writers and intelligent coverage of the arts.

Gayme 1.1:

Already a collector's item, a limited number of copies of the magazine that launched this publishing phenomenon are still on hand. Fiction from Kevin Esser, a report from a Berber oasis in Egypt and an interview with the director of For a Lost Soldier. SOLD OUT

Gayme 1.2:

Tony Duvert's ABCs of Desire, Boyd McDonald's last words, Will McBride photos and fiction by Stephen Dueweke. Limited supply only. SOLD OUT

Gayme 2.1:

Harry Hay offers a new vision for the 90s; Mark Pascal on the politics of cocks, dick and penises; photography by William von Gloeden and contemporary studies of the male nude; 20 pages of short fiction; and more. Order G2.1 $6.50

Gayme 2.2:

E. Carlotta tours a Mexican bathhouse; Mark Pascal writes on Disgust/Desire; recent photos by Bernard Faucon and Larry Clarke reviewed; fiction by Stephen Dueweke and Rod Downey; Hakim Bey recalls pirate utopias; Mitzel ponders youth and aging; Tom Reeves surveys the state of gay liberation. Order G2.2 $10.00

Handjobs Magazine, November 1996

Billed as "Ball Gripping Daddy Boy Stories," this monthly magazine focuses on sexual experiences between boys and older lovers--not just daddies, but uncles, big brothers, friendly neighbors, coaches, ministers, etc. Name your boy-love fantasy, and you'll likely find it here, along with letters >from readers, sexy comic strips and line art, personal ads and more. The current issues includes "Draining Dad's Log," "Taking the Title" (boy bodybuilder scores) and the illustrated story "Overall Boy." Order H1196, $5.00

I Am, edited by Chuck Dodson

This 'zine by self-proclaimed "pedosmile activist" Chuck Dodson is over-stuffed with a seemingly random assemblage of cartoons, diatribes, collages, ravings, drawings, letters, odd thoughts, naval gazing, cut-outs and all manner of what-not. The chaotic layout style forces you to search to find the gems, and some of the hand-scrawled postings are near- illegible. In the end it's the obsessive, excessive nature of I Am that lends it an identity. The best way to read I Am is to submit to the raging cataracts that mark this stream-of-consciousness bricolage. Order AM + Volume Number (5-9 available), $14.00 each

Three illustrated booklets, by C. Bard Cole

C. Bard Cole is a writer, editor and artist whose work exploits an

interesting contradiction: faithful attention to the details of a personal experience creates work that has a general relevance. The rough drawings make Cole's self-published chapbooks fresh and immediately appealing; the prose brings you back for a second look.

Fag Sex in High School: Cole's deft combination of spare narrative and evocative drawings has an emotional power that comes as a delightful and moving surprise. This pocket-sized comic book begins with wry observations of high school life likely to ring true for lots of gay guys, but becomes more complex as the narrative takes a deeper tone.

Cum & Roses: This book of "rock-&-roll homoerotica" is almost all pictures. Words serve as ironic titles and prickly barbs, delivering great fun at the expense of rock icons like Axl Rose and Elvis Presley.

Tattoed Love Boys: Working in a larger format, Cole expands his prose,

with stories taking center stage and drawings of skaters, punks and college guys serving as an intriguing counterpoint. Order CBP, $5.00

Koinos

A bilingual (German/English) review of pederasty, Koinos covers the history and culture of boy-love, examines response to the phenomenon in various countries and showcases the work of the finest contemporary photographers of adolescents.

Koinos 1: French moral history; the island of Sumatra.

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Koinos 3: "Barefoot in France"; in memoriam, River Phoenix; Caravaggio.

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Koinos 4: Portugal; boy sopranos; the Berlin Film Festival.

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Koinos 5: South Vietnam; North Africa.

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Made in the USA, edited by Renato Corazza=

An all-photo magazine that celebrates youth with a series of photo collages of boys old and young at work and play. Editor/publisher Renato Corazza displays a keen eye and a warm heart.

Made in the USA #1 (Summer/Fall '94)

The historic first issue; only a few copies remaining. Order US1 $22.00

Made in the USA #2 (Winter/Spring '95)

Made in the USA #2- it's new, friendlier format sets it apart from, it's bigger brother, with plenty of room for its collages of beautiful boys, Plus theme pages celebrating the Seven Deadly Sins like you've ever seen them before. And "Soccer Madness" captures the excitement of the world's most popular sport pursued by spirited young athletes. Order US2 $22.00

Made in the USA #3

If a picture is really worth 1,000 words, Made in the USA is a veritable encyclopedia devoted to the delights of boys. Issue number three features color covers. A section on pets shows boys with donkeys, rabbits, tigers and a really big pig, in addition to the expected dogs and cats. Photo- collages mix elements in unexpected ways, with proof that verbal vocabulary can manage some pretty sly political commentary. Order MUSA3 $22.00

Issue #4 Now Available

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Ophelia Editions Catalog

It is not generally the policy of Ariel's Pages to include the works of visual artists, either painters or photographers. Ophelia Editions offers the work of many recognized masters, including Jock Sturges, Sally Mann, and Wilhelm von Gloeden. The catalog also includes books of literatures and belles lettres, sociology and the politics of censorship, and naturism. Order COE $3.00

Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia

This scholarly journal of pedophilia has earned mainstream respect with its attention to research and wide-ranging curiosity. Paidika devotes serious attention to issues that simply would not be discussed if the magazine did not exist. Order PA + Volume Number (5-12 available), $16.50 each

*NON-FICTION*

The Age Taboo, edited by Daniel Tsang (Alyson Publications, 178 pp)

Tsang centers this collection of essays on man/boy love around the issues of gay may sexuality, power and consent. He has labored to include disparate voices in the discussion, with pieces from feminists Kate Millet and Pat Califia as well as the editors of Lesbians Rising. Gay and lesbian teenagers, some themselves in cross-generation relationships, are also represented, and the subjects of childhood, racism and ideology are explored. The work both captures a historical moment at the end of the 70s, when most of the pieces were written, and continuing questions that divide the gay and lesbian community to this day. Order TAT $9.50

The Boston Sex Scandal, by Mitzel (Glad Day Books, 148 pp)

When singer Anita Bryant launched a campaign in the mid 1970s to portray all gay men as "child molesters" and "kiddie pornographers," police round- ups were launched in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Boston and other cities, with sensational press charges of rape and child abuse. In Boston, gays fought back in an unprecedented manner: gay men weren't child molesters, they insisted, because consensual relationships between men and teens aren't as sexual abuse. Mitzel, in a sassy tone that matches the radical resolve of the activists whose campaign he documents, captures the police misconduct, political grandstanding, courtroom drama and courageous resistance that marked the Boston Sex Scandal. SOLD OUT

Boys on their Contacts with Men, by Theo Sandfort

(Global Academic Publishers 176 pp)

A book written for the general reader about Dr. Sandfort's study of 25 Dutch boys between the ages of ten and 16 who were currently involved in sexually expressed friendships with adult men. None of the relationships had been disturbed by intervention by the authorities, and all of the boys viewed their older friends and the sex they shared in a positive manner. An appendix presents complete interviews with three of the boys. Order SBM $17.50

Boys Speak Out, by various authors

(NAMBLA, 1996 edition)

More than a dozen teenagers tell the world just what their sexual relations with adults mean to them. Also included are a report from a gay British teen and reprints of interviews from Theo Sandfort's study of Dutch boys involved in sexual friendships with men. David Thorstad's introduction explains the genesis and importance of this affecting publication. Order BSO $5.50

Chicken Hawk

(Video, Stranger than Fiction Film)

Your chance to view the film that sparked controversy in every city it was shown. Why did Newsday's reviewer call Chicken Hawk frightening? Simply because, given the chance to present a point of view clearly, NAMBLA's spokesperson make too much sense. This film is certainly no endorsement of boy-lovers; filmmaker Adi Sideman gives NAMBLA's opponents ample time to state their views and even takes a few cheap shots in his editing and presentation. But the chance to hear the words of boy-lovers unmediated by indignant talk-show hosts, hyped-up studio audiences, know- it-all "experts" and hysteric parents is enough of a toehold for the truth. Nothing hides the obvious pride, sincerity and decency of the men who risk harassment, prison and even death because they refuse to hide their love of boys. Chicken Hawk gives some notion of the price these men have paid, in especially poignant scenes. This film caused a sensation, in the end, not because what NAMBLA said was so shocking, but because it was sensible. Order VCH $40.00

Children's Sexual Encounters with Adults, by C.K. Li et al.

(Prometheus Books, 343 pp, hc)

This detailed report of a study conducted at Cambridge University presents findings that conflict with much popular wisdom. "Sexual encounters between boys and adults are surprisingly common... with no particular consequences." Li and his co-authors include a statistical analysis of a survey on the sex histories of male students at the college and draw some provocative conclusions from the data. They also include extensive excerpts from students about their sexual encounters during childhood and adolescence. The book also contains a skillful demolition of sexologist David Finkelhor's pseudo-scientific position that adult- child (and even adult-adolescent) sexual encounters are always unethical. SOLD OUT

Crime Without Victims, by the "Trobrians" Collective

(Global Academic Publishers, 150 pp)

Danish sexologist Dr. Praben Hertoff provides the introduction for this series of three essays and 16 interviews. The format allows for an impressive variety of opinions on pedophilia. There are interviews with an attorney specializing in the defense of pedophiles, adults involved sexually with children, youngsters who have experienced relationships even the mother of one such boy. Most of the youngsters reported that sexual friendships with adults were a positive force in their lives, but the book doesn't ignore the problems posed by man/boy encounters. Order BCV $16.50

Loving Boys: Volume One, by Edward Brongersma

(Global Academic Publishers, 336 pp)

This is the first volume of a two-volume treatise on boy-love in history, in other cultures and in our own. Dr. Brongersma reads all the European languages and quotes extensively from an amazing variety of sources. He discusses current prejudices against boy-love, exposes posturing and dishonest reasoning in the modern "mind industry," shows how boy-love has persisted in all lands, all cultures and in all times of recorded history. An immense, scholarly work, with nearly 50 pages of bibliography alone, it also features an almost inexhaustible supply of anecdotes and case histories of real boys and men. Brongersma's book deserves a place on the shelf of every thoughtful man who finds himself, sometimes at least, drawn to adolescent or pre-adolescent boys. Order BLB1 $26.50

Loving Boys: Volume Two, by Edward Brongersma

(Global Academic Publishers,512 pp)

This is the second (and final) volume of Dr. Brongersma's immense and enormously readable study. Half again as big as the first book, Dr. Brongersma covers in great detail the negative aspects of man/boy love (real and imaginary), sexual oppression versus sexual liberation, and finally sex and erotic contacts with boys-what really happens during intimacy between men and boys. This is a supplementary bibliography, a subject index and a register of names and sources for both volumes. This represents without a doubt the most thorough examination of the subject ever made. Order BLB2 $31.50

Male Intergenerational Intimacy, edited by Theo Sandfort, el al.

(Harrington Park Press, 325 pp)

This is a groundbreaking look at new historical, legal, sociological and cross-disciplinary research on sexual intimacy between men of different generations. The book isn't limited to the usual political and psychological arguments about whether such relationships should be permitted or persecuted. Instead, the authors reveal a broad range of interests, including a look at the relationship between a turn-of-the- century artists and the boy who was his favorite model, a study of 2500- year-old Greek inscriptions some claim are the ancient equivalent of men's room graffiti and a sophisticated look at the social construction of childhood sexuality. Order SMI $21.50

Male Prostitution, by Donald West and Buz de Viliers

(Harrington Park Press, 358 pp, sc)

The work by leading sex-researchers is based on interviews with hundreds of London "rent boys." Though the work is a scholarly study conducted under the auspices of Cambridge University, the authors use the plain language of the prostitutes themselves to reveal the details of their lives. The interviews include information on prices, as well as transactions that go sour; unusual, rare and interesting client requests, threats of blackmail and violence (on both sides!) and prostitutes as lovers. Male Prostitution combines rigorous research with a relaxed style and lack of prudish restraint. Order WMP $19.50

Two Teenagers in Twenty, edited by Ann Heron

(Alyson Publications, 186 pp, hc)

This new edition of Heron's original book reprints 24 of the stories from One Teenager in Ten and adds 20 more pieces reflecting the lives of gay and lesbian teenagers in the 12 years since the first book was published. Sadly, the young people represented report many of the same problems with homophobia, rejection by family and friends and legal sanctions on their sexuality. But the strength and hope that marked the original volume also persists. Order HTT $17.95

Male Prostitution, by Donald West and Buz de Viliers

(Harrington ParkPress, 358 pp)

This work by leading sex researchers is based on interviews with hundreds

of London "rent boys. Though the work is a scholarly study conducted under the auspices of Cambridge University, the authors use the plain-language of the prostitutes themselves to reveal the details of their lives. The interviews include information on prices, as well as transactions that go sour; unusual, rare and interesting client requests, threats of blackmail and violence (on both sides!) and prostitutes as lover. Male Prostitution combines rigorous research with a relaxed style and lack of prudish restraint. Order WMP, $19.50

Paedophilia: A Factual Report, by Frits Bernard

(Enclave, 101 pp, hc)

This slim volume reports on scientific research conducted among pedophiles regarding several different questions. Dr. Bernard includes analysis of long-term effects on children in relationships, the age preferences of pedophiles, and their mental health and sociability. The book, translated from the Dutch, also includes a lengthy bibliography of Bernard's writing. Order BPF $18.50

Regarding Proposed Changes to Article 240B of the Dutch Penal Code, by Lawrence A. Stanley

(Lawrence A. Stanley, Esq. 160 pp)

They're all here: the celebrated photographer, the unsuspecting parent with a roll of family snapshots, the cops banging at the door, the fomenting prosecutor, the overzealous social worker, the FBI the judges and jury and the children caught in the middle. Read this and shudder. Attorney Lawrence Stanley has written a fascinating and informative analysis of the social misconceptions fueling child pornography hysteria. Citing a number of recent cases of government censorship and police harassment, Stanley untangles the facts from the myths behind the continued assault on contemporary photography and personal liberties. As an attorney who has worked at the heart of the child obscenity issue, Stanley exposes the tortured logic of prosecutors and warns of the tragic consequences of legal policies that purport to protect, but in reality hurt, children. He reports cases of police pressure imposed on "victims" to force confessions of harm where, in fact, there was no harm. It is a tale of lives disrupted, reputations shattered, and artistic freedoms trampled under the heels of runaway moral zeal. Stanley's book includes a bibliography of more than 175 books containing images that might suffer the censor's ax, as well as 25 b&w plates by photographers of serious merit who work includes full frontal nudity of both male and female children. Order SWP $20.00

Talk Back!, by Lesbian and Gay Media Advocates

(Alyson Publications, 120 pp)

A training manual for would be activists-and armchair activists-Talk Back! will teach you how to fight sloppy reporting and outright lies in the media as well as generate stories that present a more realistic picture of our community. With sample letters to use as guides, this book's suggestions for do-it-yourself protest can be put into action immediately. Order LTB $5.50

Threatened Children, by Joel Best

(University of Chicago Press, 232 pp, hc)

American media-including TV news shows, Hollywood movies and slick periodicals seems to delight in the continually rediscovered "fact" that children are in danger from assorted sadists, perverts and pedophiles, more today than ever before. Sociologist Joel Best takes a close look at this claim and finds it falls far short of the truth. (One is example is his analysis of the media's treatment of Halloween, which the media now treats not as the night for youngsters to play trick-or-treat but a time to report largely imaginary incidences of psychopaths hiding razor blades in candy apples.) Best looks at the reasons for this pervasive misreporting. His conclusions point to a troubling irony: a society mobilized by endless scare stories about children does little to protect them from real dangers like ignorance, poverty and ill health. Order BTC $16.50

Varieties of Man/Boy Love, edited by Mark Pascal

(Wallace Hamilton Press, 124 pp)

Pederasty has been an important part of gay sexuality and a phenomenon that's taken many forms. This collections suggests some of the many different things man-boy relationships have meant to the people in them, and what political and social sense they have made out of them. Personal accounts flavor Tom Reeves' anecdotal portrait and David Thorstad "Conversation with a Boy Lover" in 1978. Hubert Kennedy and Steven Adrian Smith contribute historical accounts from Germany and England. Order NJ8 $9.50

A Witchhunt Foiled, by David Thorstad

(Wallace Hamilton Press, 91 pp)

This history of a hiccup on the part of the police state recounts one of the most heartening David-and-Goliath battles of modern times. On one side was the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a group founded in 1978 to support consensual sexual relationships between boys and men. On the other side was the Federal Bureau of Investigation, using their police power to harass and destroy legitimate political organizations. Near the end of 1982, the Bureau claimed that it had discovered photographs that NAMBLA had been involved in the kidnapping of a boy who had disappeared several years earlier. NAMBLA activists were not only able to prove that the FBI was willing to manufacture evidence and lie to the media to press its absurd case against the group; spokespersons from the organization had the guts to take the spotlight of the national media and turn the tables on the cops. Order NWF $7.50

Young Gay and Proud, edited by Sasha Alyson

(Alyson Publications, 119 pp)

A resource book for high-school students exploring their sexuality and preparing for coming out, Young, Gay and Proud mixes practical advice with chapters calculated to boost self-esteem in the face of homophobia. Included is a chapter of famous gays and lesbians in history. It's interesting, in this book for teenager, how many of the gay men included on that historic list loved boys, though this isn't acknowledged in the thumbnail biographies of their lives presented in the volume. Order GYG $5.50

*TALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD*

The Delight of Hearts, translated by E.A. Lacey

(Gay Sunshine Press, 234 pp)

Subtitled "what you will not find in any book," this anthology from the Arab Middle Ages was compiled by Ahmad al-Tifashi almost a thousand years ago. But with its focus on "strange facts, anecdotes and jokes," al- Tifashi's collection proves that camp was alive and well even then. Chapter headings (like "the wittiest and most refined poems about hustlers") make it immediately apparent this is no dry-as-dust history. In fact, the book is alive with smart-talking queens, wily hustlers, lecherous johns, love- sick poets, passionate boy-lovers and cowering closet cases. Order LDH $11.50

Gay Tales and Verses from the Arabian Nights, edited by Henry M. Christman

(Banned Books, 100 pp)

The Arabian Nights gave us the stories of Sinbad the sailor and Ali Baba and the 40 thieves. Thanks to modern scholars willing to research and translates long-hidden examples of "Islamic indecency" contained in the original manuscripts, the Arabian Nights can give us much more. Henry Christman has chosen tales of seduction, of infatuation and of ecstatic love and sex. He also includes poems by the love-sick and the love sated. SOLD OUT

Gay Tales of the Samurai, by Ihara Saikaku

(Alamo Square Press Books, 110 pp, sc)

The samurai warriors of feudal Japan are legendary in the West for their courage, loyalty and strict devotion to the code of honor known as bushido. Less familiar to those who learned of bushido through movies chronicling the swordplay and intrigue of samurai life is the tradition of gay love between these fierce fighters and their adolescent pages or wakashu. The Japanese record of this courtly love, the way of shudo, extends back 300 years to Ihara Saikaku's Glorious Tales of Homosexuality. Gay Tales of the Samurai features selections from Saikaku's books translated by E. Powys Mathers. Based on true stories handed down over generations, these accounts reveal both the yearning for ideal love and the dark samurai preoccupation with death, including the custom of seppuki, or ritual suicide by disembowelment. Order SGT, $11.00

Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Nazi Germany, by Harry Oosterhuis, Ph.D. and Hubert Kennedy, Ph.D.

(Harrington Park Press, 271 pp, sc.)

Before Hitler's rise to power, Germany was the home of an impressive youth movement and perhaps Europe's most advanced gay movement--and quite often the two overlapped considerably. These radical roots of gay liberation might be forgotten had they not been recorded in Der Eigene, an early German gay journal. Even so, the writings were largely ignored after Nazism crushed the movement, and many have never before been translated into English. This book rescues those landmark documents and presents a timely challenge to modern gay politics unwilling to include youth sexuality, Order GHM, $16.50

The Kindness of Strangers, by John Boswell

(Vintage, 488 pp)

Historian John Boswell noticed a dirty secret of Western civilization: throughout classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, the abandonment of unwanted children by their parents was a widespread practice. In this solidly researched but compelling and readable study, he examines why so many parents of every class gave up their children, "exposing" them in public places, donating them to the Church or, in later centuries, delivering them to foundling hospitals. He shows what might happen to these children, who might be reclaimed by their biological parents or condemned to lives of slavery or prostitution. And he illuminates the moral codes, both pagan and Christian, that condoned abandonment. SOLD OUT

The Love of the Samurai, by Tsuneo Watanabe and Jun-ichi Iwata

(Gay Men's Press, 158 pp, hc)

This intriguing and lively study depicts homosexuality as central to the traditional culture of Japan. Its flowering took several forms, beginning with the way of chigo, or the Buddhist monks and their love for servant boys from nine to 17 years old. Later traditions include the role of homosexuality in no and kabuki theater and shudo, a means of spiritual awakening practiced by the saumari. According to this ethic, a future samurai must first be loved by an adult man, then himself love a young man before eventually marrying a woman. The text includes many illustrations, including color plates reproducing an entire erotic silk-roll painting illustrating ten scenes of gay love. SOLD OUT

O Tribe That Loves Boys by Abu Nuwas, translated by Hakim Bey

(Entimos Press: Amsterdam)

Hakim Bey's extraordinary volume of works by Arab boy-love poet Abu Nuwas is "a pseudo-translation made by a poet who doesn't know the original language." Instead of dry scholarship, Bey relies on the passion he shares with a writer who lived half a world away 1200 years ago. The result is a collection of verse that boy-lovers will find at once wildly exotic and strangely familiar. Presented with a biographical essay recalling Nuwas' outlandish antics in the service of both boys and poetry, the book is elegantly bound and printed in a limited edition and illustrated with photographs that share the spirit of the text. Order NOT, $15.50

Passions of the Cut Sleeve, by Bret Hinsch

(University of California Press, 232 pp)

Bret Hinsch's investigation of the male homosexual tradition in China mixes solid scholarship with material from ancient literature, poetry and even bawdy humor. He reveals that though gays were sometimes per- secuted in China, most dynasties (from 1100 B.C. through 1912) tolerated the practice and some encouraged and honored it. In many eras, the most common model for relationships was the older man/younger boy familiar >from so many gay cultures around the world and through history, but Hinsch focuses usefully on the ways Chinese homosexuality was different >from Western experience as well as ways in which it was similar. SOLD OUT

Sexuality and Eroticism Among Males in Moslem Societies, by Arno Schmitt and Jehoda Sofer

(Harrington Park Press, 201 pp, sc)

The Moslem world remains, for many Westerners, a very hidden, very foreign culture. Differences in notions about homosexual acts and gender roles cap make relations among males difficult for outsiders to understand. This volume collects the impressions of both insiders and outsiders, relying on personal narratives and first-hand description as well as analytic essays and academic treatises. Together they provide a vivid and fascinating portrait of the erotic life of men in Islamic societies. Order SSE, $16.50

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One source I can recommend regarding women and intergenerational relationships is the Winter, 1992, issue of PAIDIKA: The Journal of Paedophilia, which was written by and about women.

It includes several interviews of women and female youth as well as excellent articles, such as:

A Crush on My Girl-Scout Leader by Nora de Ronde.

Feminism, Paedophilia, and Children's Rights by Pat Califia.

Sexual Revolution and the Liberation of Children. An Interview with Kate Millett.

Speaking Out on "Women/Girl Love" -Or, Lesbians Do, "Do It" by Beth Kelly

And much, much, more.

This Journal is available by mail from: PAIDIKA, Postbus 15463, 1001 ML Amsterdam, The Netherland. Copies can also be obtained

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

-- Roy Radow Now: radow@netcom.com (was: roy@panix.com) North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018. Send $5 for current Bulletin with amount credited toward membership fee. Publications list available upon request.

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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 11:47:46 -0700 From: Roy Radow <radow@netcom.com>

JOURNAL AND RESEARCH REPORTS ON PEDOPHILIA

(See our Recommended Reading List for additional references.)

Baurmann, M.C. Sexuality, violence, and Psychological After-Effects: A Longitudinal Study of Cases of Sexual Assault Which Were Reported To The Police

NOTE: NOW AVAILABLE AT Ipce.info (NEEDS LINK)

Wiesbaden: Bundeskriminalamt, Germany, 1988.

Massive Longitudinal study of all reported victims of sexual offenses against minors in the German State of Lower Saxony from 1969-1972, with six to ten year follow-up, under the direction of the German Ministry of Justice. Total sample is over 8,000, including over 800 boys up to age 14. Violence and/or coercion were present in roughly half of the offenses against girls, and were correlated with negative outcomes. None of the boys experienced force or coercion, and no negative outcomes were observed for any of the boys. This is by far the most in depth study in the field.

Constantine, Larry L. "Effects of Early Sexual Experiences: A Review and Synthesis of Research

in Constantine, L. L., Martinson, F.M., (eds.) Children and Sex: New Findings, New Perspectives. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1981.

Reviews 30 studies, most of which include child-adult contacts. Breaks down experiences by their consequences for the child: positive, neutral, or negative. Examines relationships between several variables and observed outcomes. Concludes that 13 of these studies found that "for the majority of subjects , there is essentially no harm; and six [other studies] even identified some subjects for whom, by self-evaluation or other criteria, the childhood sexual encounter was a positive or possibly beneficial experience."

Constantine, Larry L. "Child Sexuality: Recent Developments and Implications for Treatment, Prevention, and Social Policy

International Journal of Medicine and Law, No. 2, pp. 55-67, 1983.

Reviews findings of above article. Discusses implications for treatment, prevention, and social policy. Includes proposals for legal revisions.

Jones, G.P. "The Study of intergenerational Intimacy in North America: Beyond Politics and Pedophilia

Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 20, pp. 275-295, 1990.

Money, John. "Juvenile, Pedophile, Heterophile: Hermeneutics of Science, Medicine and Law in Two Outcome Studies

International Journal of Medicine and Law, No. 2, pp. 33-54, 1983.

Unusually detailed investigation of two consensual long-term "pedophiliac" relationships. Long-term, prospective case studies find relationships to be non-harmful and possibly beneficial for both partners. Money is among the most widely cited American authors on human sexology, sexuality, and gender development.

Okami, Paul. "Self-reports of 'Positive' Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Contacts with Older Persons: An Exploratory Study

Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 20, pp. 437-457, 1991.

Examines how contacts are perceived by the younger partner in later life. Investigates relationships between "positive" self-assessment and several variables.

Okami, Paul. "Sociopolitical Biases in the Contemporary Scientific Literature on Adult Human Sexual Behavior with Children and Adolescents

in Feierman, J. (ed.) Pedophilia: Biosocial Dimensions. New York: Springer Verlag, 1990.

Okami, Paul. "Child Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse: The Emergence of a Problematic Deviant Category

Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 109-130, Feb. 1992.

Discusses the nature and origins of recent attacks against sexual expression by young people. Finds much of the literature on the subject of sexual contacts between minors to be scientifically unsound. Highly recommended reading.

Okami, Paul and Goldberg, Amy. "Personality Correlates of Pedophilia: Are They Reliable Indicators?

Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 297-328, Aug. 1992.

Critical and extensive review of the literature.

Sandfort, Theo. "Sex in Pedophiliac Relationships: An Empirical Investigation Among a Nonrepresentative Group of Boys

Journal of Sex Research, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 123-142, May, 1984.

Investigates twenty-five ongoing consensual long-term "pedophiliac" relationships. "The sexual contacts were found to have had no negative influence upon the boys' sense of general well-being, nor did the boys perceive in these contacts a misuse of authority by the adult." (Quoted from the Abstract)

Tindall, R. H., "The Male Adolescent Involved With a Pederast Becomes an Adult

Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 373-382, 1978.

Longitudinal study of nine cases covering a span of over thirty years. Finds the relationships to be non-harmful, with positive benefits in some cases.

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

-- Roy Radow Now: radow@netcom.com (was: roy@panix.com) North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018. Send $5 for current Bulletin with amount credited toward membership fee. Publications list available upon request.

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Since its inception NAMBLA's membership has been open to all people regardless of age, gender, or sexual orientation.

Young people have participated on an equal basis in our organization. They have served as full voting members of NAMBLA's Steering Committee (the governing body of the organization).

Young people have also been designated as official Spokespeople for NAMBLA and have publicly appeared as such representing our organization.

The NAMBLA Bulletin (published 10 times a year) has always been an open forum for young people and issues pertaining to Youth Liberation.

Our youngest regular contributor was eleven years old when he began writing a monthly column for the Bulletin. Young people have been members of our Bulletin Collective, and our current editor was a gay youth himself when he first became involved in NAMBLA.

We provide financial and other assistance to GLB youth organizations here and abroad. NAMBLA and its members have been involved in various groups which provide support and services to the GLB youth community.

We have participated in and sponsored public forums as well as appearing before the media, university and community groups where we supported the cause of GLB Youth and Youth Liberation.

For years NAMBLA has adopted numerous official positions and have spoken out publicly regarding youth empowerment and liberation. The following are a sampling of our positions.

1980- Opposition to reinstatement of the military draft & conscription.

1982- Opposition to the "Schwieker" bill which would force doctors to inform a young women's parents if she sought contraceptive devices or an abortion.
1983- Support of equal civil rights for youth, including: freedom of speech, press, religion, and privacy; freedom from involuntary   servitude; the right to due process; protection from illegal search and seizures. More student input in matters pertaining
      to their education, and the establishment of viable alternative living conditions.
1985- Call for improved funding and education regarding AIDS, and
      opposition to forced testing and quarantines.
1991- Support of young people's right to emancipation.
      Support of young people's right to sex education & contraception.

How many other GLB organizations historically have had such accessibility and meaningful participation by young people?

How many other GLB organizations have adopted positions and spoken out publicly in support GLB Youth and Youth Liberation way before it was fashionable to do so?

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

-- Roy Radow Now: radow@netcom.com (was: roy@panix.com) North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018. Send $5 for current Bulletin with amount credited toward membership fee. Publications list available upon request.

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[Monday night, KRON aired the first in a two-part "Target 4" investigative report on NAMBLA. Here's a transcript of that report. The reporter is Greg Lyon so, if you followup, please change your attributions accordingly.]

An organization dedicated to helping its members meet children and then molest them without getting caught holds its regular monthly meetings in a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. We're talking about children as young as three years old.

The Portrero Hill branch of the San Francisco Public Library on a Saturday afternoon: downstairs, children -- some with parents, some by themselves. And upstairs, this scene captured by our Target 4 hidden camera. This is the regular monthly meeting of NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association. This is not a counseling session, not an attempt to help NAMBLA members control their lust for children. Quite the opposite. On this day the group discussed putting together a calendar of nude boys as a fundraiser.

And then there's this: the "NAMBLA Bulletin", published ten times a year. Now in here you'll find articles telling you where to meet kids, how to avoid getting caught, how to teach children to lie to their parents.

Well, is this just talk? Are these people really dangerous? We asked Kathy Baxter, director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Council. "It is a group, in my opinion, of men primarily who get together to network with one another on where to find young boys, how to pick them up, how to get them involved, and how to feel good about what you're doing."

That opinion is shared by San Francisco police sergeant Tom Eisenman. He asked us to hide his face so he won't be recognized by the child molesters he investigates. "I don't believe they're harmless at all. I believe that, because of their meetings, children get molested. And, as long as that happens, it's a subject of attention for the San Francisco Police Department."

So, the logical question is, how could this happen? Didn't the library know what was going on? And the surprising answer is yes, they have known for more than two years. Target 4 obtained this copy of the application that NAMBLA filled out to use the public meeting room back in August of 1989. And it says right on the face of it, "North American Man-Boy Love Association." So, how could the library allow this use of its public meeting rooms?

The library says that, legally, its hands are tied. It's an issue of intellectual freedom protected by court ruling. Assistant chief of branches Gloria Hansen: "No, as long as it's lawful, they fill out the form with the contact people, and it's a First Amendment issue. Anybody who wants to meet in the meeting room, as long as it's lawful activity."

That First Amendment argument is a tough one The courts have consistently ruled that the First Amendment was designed to protect not the most hamless speech, but the most noxious speech.

But there's another issue here. For more than two years, the library has kept silent about who was meeting in the room upstairs and the danger. We'll have that part of the story tomorrow on NewsCenter 4 at 6. We'll also show you what happened when we told neighborhood parents, and when we confronted that NAMBLA meeting.

By the way, we've been asking NAMBLA for nearly two weeks now to come on-camera with us; so far they have not complied.

[Anchor Pete Wilson:] Have they published these calendars? Have they published instructions for --

[Greg Lyon:] The calendar -- no, apparently not. That was a plan -- a planning session that they were talking about. The monthly bulletin, with the pictures of young boys, comes out --

[Wilson:] Because then they would be discussing what would be an illegal act.

[Lyon:] Yes. One of the questions is, isn't it conspiracy for people to get together to talk about an illegal act? Apparently not, according to San Francisco police. If they merely talk about the illegal act, no crime as occurred. It's not until the act was committed that conspiracy occurs.

[Wilson:] Thank you, Greg. More tomorrow.

-- Chris Thomas (415) 694-5614 S4/7 b g+ l y+ z+ n+ o+ x-/+ a++ u v-/+ j++ thomas@acuson.com [Here is the second part of KRON's "Target 4" investigative report on NAMBLA. Again, if you followup, please change your attributions.]

[Anchor Suzanne Shaw:] It is called NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association. It is a group that advocates having sex with children.

[Anchor Pete Wilson:] And NAMBLA's appeared now and again in the news over the course of the last decade. Last night, our Target 4 investigative unit broke the story that NAMBLA has been meeting in a San Francisco public library for the past two years. And reporter Greg Lyon joins us now with more on that. Greg?

[Greg Lyon:] Well, Pete, it does sound incredible. A group dedicated to having sex with children meeting in the San Francisco library, and with the library's permission. But emotional issues aside, the real question is whether NAMBLA members pose a threat to society. Law enforcement and child-abuse experts are telling Target 4 they're not dangerous at all -- unless you're a child.

These are pictures of a NAMBLA meeting at the Portrero branch of the San Francisco Public Library, taken with a hidden camera. It may seem innocuous. But look at the magazine NAMBLA publishes ten times a year, the "NAMBLA Bulletin." Letters to the editor smolder with stories of sex with children, and advice on how to molest youngsters without getting caught.

And the fact that such an organization has been meeting in the public library while children play downstairs outrages Kathy Baxter, director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Council. "I'm horrified and I'm truly baffled, and I'm also very angry. I think the library has a responsibility to our children, to protect them as best they can."

The library claims that, legally, its hands are tied, that it's an issue of intellectual freedom. Besides, the library says, NAMBLA is not a threat. Gloria Hanson is assistant director of branches: "No, as long as it's lawful, they fill out the form with the contact people, and it's a First Amendment issue. Anybody who wants to meet in the meeting room, as long as it's lawful activity."

Target 4 wanted to ask NAMBLA directly whether they pose a threat at this library. So we decided to go to their meeting ourselves, a meeting that both NAMBLA and the library maintained was open to the public. This is what happened when we told them who we were:

[Lyon, entering room:] "Excuse me, I'm Greg Lyon of Channel 4. Is this the meeting of NAMBLA? [Members put on jackets and begin to leave the room silently.] If so, I'd like to ask you some questions if I could, if there's anybody that's willing to be a spokesperson."

It didn't look to us like these people had nothing to hide. We finally were able to ask this man [not identified] for an interview. [Lyon:] "Well, the question I have is whether it's appropriate for NAMBLA to meet in the public library." He said he would call us back. He never has.

This is sergeant Tom Eisenman. He asked us not to show his face so he wouldn't be recognized by the child molesters he investigates. He says NAMBLA is a threat. "I think, in the last five years, I've personally done about 12 people from NAMBLA, or people that I've tied in, that were closely involved."

These are some of those people. One of them, Jeff White, who Eisenman says was convicted for his involvement in a child-sex ring. Eisenman says White is a member of NAMBLA and, in fact, in this mug shot you can clearly see a NAMBLA T-shirt. And look at this: Eisenman says it's a list White kept of 139 victims he molested. The youngest, five years old; the average age, nine and a half. One other thing you should know about Jeff White: these medical records indicate he is HIV-positive.

And what about those NAMBLA members Target 4 uncovered quietly meeting every month in the San Francisco Public Library? Well, this is a copy of the request form they filed for the meeting room back in August of 1989. One of the names on this form, the name Joe Power. His name and phone number are clearly legible on the request form.

These are pictures Target 4 obtained of NAMBLA member and spokesman Joe Power speaking to a gathering on child abuse in the East Bay. "We're not going to change. All the therapy in the world isn't going to change a boy-lover to be something else."

Soon after these pictures were taken, a year after the NAMBLA group filed its application with his name on it to meet in the San Francisco Public Library, Joe Power was arrested and convicted of oral copulation with a 14 year old boy, that according to Sunnyvale police. They say he served a year in prison for the crime.

Late today, a spokesman from NAMBLA finally agreed to talk to Target 4. He claimed NAMBLA was not a threat, that none of its members had been arrested in San Francisco, and he said Target 4 was engaging in Gestapo tactics by barging into NAMBLA's library meeting. We wanted to know more about the group's philosophy.

[Lyon:] Could sex with a five year old conceivably be OK?

[Alan Davis, NAMBLA Spokesman:] I'm just here to address the fact of KRON's tactics and an attack on our membership, and that's primarily why I'm here. You know, our right as a public organization to meet in a public place, and the outrage of some of our membership and some of the lesbian and gay community around that issue, and we're just wondering what's next.

[Lyon, in studio:] As you'll notice, NAMBLA invoked the lesbian and gay community. It has done so repeatedly, claiming that the right to have sex with children is a gay issue. But is it? That's one of the issues we'll try to explore in future reports.

[Wilson:] The lesbian and gay community may have something to say about that. The question is, is membership legal or illegal?

[Lyon:] Membership in NAMBLA is completely legal, and we want to hasten to add that we don't mean to imply that every member of NAMBLA is a convicted paedophile.

[Shaw:] Thank you.

-- Chris Thomas (415) 694-5614 S4/7 b g+ l y+ z+ n+ o+ x-/+ a++ u v-/+ j++ thomas@acuson.com [Wednesday night, KRON unexpectedly continued its "Target 4" investigative series on NAMBLA. Here's a transcript of tonight's report... again, if you followup, please change attributions accordingly.]

[Anchor Suzanne Shaw:] Tonight we have more to tell you about NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, a group that advocates having sex with children. It was our own Target 4 investigative unit that broke the story that, for more than two years, NAMBLA has been meeting in the Portrero branch of the San Francisco Public Library, with the library's permission. That story has generated enormous controversy. Greg Lyon is at the Portrero library right now, where another chapter is being played out. Greg?

[Greg Lyon:] Yes, Suzanne, between 40 and 50 people are meeting upstairs in this library right now, and the question on everybody's mind is whether NAMBLA should be allowed to use this building. It's a classic First Amendment issue: the freedom of speech of the members of NAMBLA against what is seen by many in this community as a very real threat to their children.

These are the pictures that inflamed a community. Members of NAMBLA, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, in a meeting at the Portrero library. While this meeting was going on, parents and children were using the library downstairs. And few, if any, were aware of the nature of the upstairs meeting. When Target 4 told them what was happening, parents were outraged.

[Unidentified parent:] "I have a child who is two years old, and I live around the corner. And I felt it was inappropriate for this place to be used by this organization."

[Lyon:] But the library says it is not allowed to decide which groups can use a public facility, that it's an issue of free speech. And that position has a lot of support in American law. Dorothy Erlich is with the American Civil Liberties Union: "The notion of the government coming in and telling people what they can or cannot talk about, and telling people with some views, no matter how important those views are, that they can't hold those views in a public place is something that we think is really the wrong policy, and it violates the First Amendment."

This man has heard first-hand what NAMBLA talks about in its meetings. His name is Mike Echols, author of this book, called "I Know My First Name is Steven." He writes about child-abuse issues, and he infiltrated NAMBLA. He asked us to conceal his face. Echols says much of what members discuss in the meeting is harmless. But he told Target 4 about a man at a NAMBLA meeting at the Portrero Hill library who said he just got out of prison: "He said at the meeting that he had a 12 year old and a 13 year old boy living with him then, that he was, as he put it, doing minors again, which he then described as having sex with these two boys."

Or listen to what NAMBLA spokesperson Alan Davis told Target 4 about the group's philosophy:

[Lyon:] "Is there an age below which a child is unable to give consent, and therefore below which there should be no sexual relations?"

[Davis:] "I think children at any age know what they like and don't like."

That kind of speech is protected by the First Amendment, and by a Supreme Court that has upheld the right of groups as notorious as the American Nazis to meet and march in public. But parents here are asking what about their rights to protect their children?

[Robin Acker, parent:] "I was shocked. I was shocked that the library would allow a group like this to meet in the library. And mostly shocked that they would do it -- I understand their issue on First Amendment rights, but that they didn't let the community know that it was going on so that the community could take steps to protect the children in the neighborhood."

This is Dale Carlson of the San Francisco Library Commission. Dale, as you heard Robin Acker there say, the parents when we met with them -- the concern they expressed most is, why didn't the library say something? Why didn't the library let people know who was using this room?

[Carlson:] Well, Greg, first of all I'm glad that you're beginning to turn the attention on this issue to the substantive issues, not the sleaze and sensational that has driven emotions in this community. I think the issue is not NAMBLA's policies or NAMBLA's aims, as repugnant as those are to most people, including me. The questions really revolve around First Amendment issues and censorship issues and intellectual freedom issues. Why didn't the library know? It is not the part of our current policy to post meeting notices for outside organizations.

[Lyon:] Will you change that policy, Dale?

[Carlson:] Our policy is under review. It has been under review for about a year and a half. It will be before my committee on Tuesday afternoon at the library, and certainly one of the things we're going to be considering is a requirement that all meetings at a branch library, or any other library, be posted.

[Lyon:] I understand, as things stand now, that NAMBLA will have to reapply to the library to use this room again. But assuming they do, and they submit the same paperwork they submitted last time, will they be allowed again to use this building?

[Carlson:] Our policy calls for groups to reapply every six months for permission to use our meeting facility. My understanding of the law, and we're still reviewing this with our attorneys, is that if the library community rooms are open to any organization, they must be open to all organizations. The only way that I can conceive of right now of barring NAMBLA from using this facility is to bar all organizations -- neighborhood organizations, community organizations, from using library meeting rooms. That's not something I'm anxious to do. I'm hoping that the attention this story has generated -- the fact that NAMBLA has been driven out from under a rock and into the daylight, the public attention that's been focused on this organization, will cause them to seek another place, and a more appropriate place, to hold their meetings.

[Lyon:] OK, Dale, thanks very much. As we said, a group of parents meeting upstairs right now with other library officials to discuss that very issue. Pete and Suzanne, back to you.

[Anchor Pete Wilson:] Alright, thanks a lot, Greg. Since Target 4 aired the first of its reports on Monday, phones have been ringing off the hook here. Some members of the gay community are adamant that they, in no way, endorse NAMBLA. Others are not so sure. Many of the callers feel the reports reflect poorly on the gay community, although we should point out the only mention of homosexuality in the report last night came from NAMBLA itself. Target 4, tomorrow, will explore the growing controversy among gays themselves over NAMBLA. -- Chris Thomas (415) 694-5614 S4/7 b g+ l y+ z+ n+ o+ x-/+ a++ u v-/+ j++ thomas@acuson.com

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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 21:02:41 -0500 From: Roy Radow <roy@panix.com> Subject: NAMBLA Replies to ILGA Secretariat (Revised)

Dear Tommy-tom,

  Please replace the NAMBLA-ILGA statement which currently appears

in the QRD with this revised statement. Thanks.

NAMBLA has been a member of the International Lesbian and Gay Association for 10 years. We've been continuously active in ILGA longer than any other US organization. NAMBLA delegates to ILGA helped write ILGA's constitution, its official positions on the sexual rights of youth, and its stands against sexual coercion and corporal punishment. We are proud of our contributions in making ILGA a stronger voice for the international gay and lesbian movement and for sexual justice.

In spite of this proud history, four of ILGA's six secretariats, meeting in New York, November 5-7, have request NAMBLA to resign and stated that they will seek its expulsion by the general membership this summer unless it complies. This small administrative body individuals issued press releases on November 7 stating that ILGA "condemns pedophilia" and that NAMBLA's "political aims... are in direct contradiction" to those of ILGA. In particular, the statement cites NAMBLA's opposition to age-of-consent laws as a tool for protecting young people from sexual coercion.

     These statements by the secretariats' committee are a craven and 

dishonest attempt to satisfy demands by the US Mission to the UN. On October 16, the US Mission's Bisa Williams-Manigault sent a letter to ILGA stating that the US will seek ILGA's removal from the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) unless ILGA "dissociate[s] itself from NAMBLA and other affiliate organizations whose objectives," in the opinion of the US government, "are not consonant with UN human rights activities." In addition, Williams-Manigault has told the press that to meet US demands, ILGA would have to expel at least two other organizations. The Dutch Vereniging Martijn and a US group called Project Truth along with any other member organization that has expressed support for NAMBLA's positions.

The ILGA secretariats' statement contradicts the positions ILGA has adopted over the course of a decade, and greatly distorts NAMBLA's platform.

ILGA's current positions on man/boy love and pedophilia are explicit:

-- In 1985, ILGA adopted a position on "Age of Consent/Paedophilia/ Children's Rights" that urged member organizations to "lobby their governments to abolish the age of consent law" so long as there is "adequate protection for youth from being sexually abused without the age of consent law."

-- In 1986, ILGA adopted a position that says the group "supports the right of young people to sexual and social self-determination."

-- In 1988, ILGA declared "this conference recognizes that existing same-sex age-of-consent laws often operate to oppress and not to protect; that in many countries, existing laws on sexual coercion and rules of evidence also often operate to oppress and not to protect; that therefore member organizations are urged to consider how best children, adolescents, and people of all ages can be empowered and supported against both sexual coercion and sexual oppression and to work towards that end."

-- In 1990, ILGA "calls on all members to treat all sexual minorities with respect and to engage in constructive dialogue with them. In another position adopted that year, ILGA declared that it "supports the right of every individual, regardless of age, to explore and develop her or his sexuality."

ILGA has also taken strong stands against sexual coercion. NAMBLA helped write these positions, and our delegates supported them in the General Assembly, contrary to what the ILGA secretariats imply.

-- In 1990 ILGA adopted as an official position that "Major power imbalances create the potential for child abuse. ILGA condemns the exploitative use of power differences to coerce others into sexual relationships."

Every one of the resolutions cited above was adopted by at least an 80 percent majority of ILGA delegates; many were adopted unanimously. Their status as official ILGA positions is a matter of public record. Not one of these positions has ever been revoked by ILGA's membership, and all have been distributed to the media as recently two months ago by ILGA's Information Secretariat as official positions.

NAMBLA fully supports ILGA's efforts to achieve consultative status on the UN's ECOSOC, though we did not play any role in attaining that status.

     Any attempt to link NAMBLA or ILGA with child abuse is dishonest and 

malicious. But in an effort to save ILGA's ECOSOC status, one small project of ILGA, its secretariats have taken a dangerous step toward destroying what ILGA is at essence: a diverse, democratic coalition controlled by its members, not a small group of leaders.

The following are quotes from NAMBLA position papers adopted at the indicated times by NAMBLA's membership. The reader can determine whether or not an "extreme divergence" exists between the views of NAMBLA and ILGA.

"NAMBLA condemns those who exploit children and others for profit and pornography... NAMBLA condemns pornography which furthers racial and sexual stereotypes." [adopted November 11, 1981]

"NAMBLA supports economic and racial justice for youth, especially for gay youth, who are often doubly oppressed. Wherever forms of hustling thrive on racial or economic inequality-- especially in third- world countries, where imperialism is involved-- NAMBLA condemns the inequality and imperialism and calls on men and boys to work actively against them." [adopted November 11, 1981]

"NAMBLA... calls for the adoption of laws that both protect children from unwanted sexual experiences and at the same time leave them free to determine the content of their own sexual experiences." [adopted December 4, 1983]

"NAMBLA has always opposed any form of abuse or coercion... and NAMBLA condemns rape and sexual assault." [adopted December 4, 1983]

"Exploitation, sexual or otherwise, is neither approved of nor practiced by NAMBLA. NAMBLA recognizes that exploitation occurs in the area of hustling, and the publication of erotica, and has called on its members to help eliminate exploitation in these areas." [adopted December 4, 1983]

"NAMBLA condemns corporal punishment, kidnapping, rape, and sexual exploitation. Participation in corporal punishment, kidnapping, rape, and sexual exploitation is contrary to NAMBLA'S statement of purpose. It is grounds for expulsion from NAMBLA." [adopted December 4, 1983]

As the above positions detail, NAMBLA has no difficulty supporting in its entirety the 1990 statement of ILGA on the protection of children. We reaffirm our support of that ILGA statement now. NAMBLA believes that the attitude of the 1990 ILGA conference is also shown by the resolution calling on "all members to treat all sexual minorities with respect and to engage in constructive dialog with them."

Already, several ILGA activists and member organizations have condemned the secretariats' actions and reaffirmed their support for the participation in ILGA of man/boy lovers. The national German gay coalition Bundesverband Homosexualitat has declared that it is "astonished and embarrassed" at the secretariats' actions. "We are convinced that any attempt to expel NAMBLA and others from ILGA will be rejected by the vast majority of ILGA members," writes BVH executive committee member Wolfram Setz. Another German group, Verein for Sexuelle Gleichberechtigung adds, "The fight for... fundamental human right[s] must not be relinquished or reduced because of the political pressure from any government. Where would we end up if we made concessions in this respect? NAMBLA's objectives are as far we know absolutely in agreement with... the UN declarations of human rights and children's rights."

The Secretariats, by their actions, are seeking to transform ILGA from being a "parliament" of the international lesbian and gay movement-- a place where real discussion and compromise takes place among groups with varied focuses and approaches-- and instead turn it into a public relations showcase for a few leaders.

We value our participation in ILGA in part because of how we ourselves have been challenged and have grown by talking and working with lesbian and gay people with different experiences and perspectives than our own. We have been gratified and encouraged at seeing others change their feelings and perceptions about man/boy love through working with us. Growth and understanding of this kind should continue.

In Liberation For All,

Roy

Roy Radow roy@panix.com ...rutgers!cmcl2!panix!roy North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018. Send $5 for current Bulletin with amount credited toward membership fee. Publications list available upon request.

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What People Are Saying About NAMBLA And Man/Boy Love

"Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance,.. . I'm a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too- everybody does, who has a little humanity."

---Allen Ginsberg, poet

"NAMBLA Walks With Me."

---Harry Hay, Radical Faerie & activist, L.A. Gay Pride Parade, 1986

"Sex between youths and adults is one of the most difficult issues in the gay movement. When does a youngster have the right and the power to make his own sexual decisions? How are laws against intergenerational sex used specifically to target gay men? What are the issues that make the romantic image of the Greek teacher and his student in times of antiquity turn into something ugly and forbidden in the modern age? If you want to explore these issues, NAMBLA is the organization that will supply you with brochures, thought-provoking books and booklets."

---John Preston in The Big Gay Book: A Man's Survival Guide for the

90s (New York: Plume, 1991)

"Membership in the... North American Man/Boy Love Association is not required in order to question whether every instance of intergenerational sexuality is damaging."

---Richard Green, professor of psychiatry, University of California,

Los Angeles, in Sexual Science and the Law (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1992)

"Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved."

---Gayle Rubin, lesbian feminist, in Leaping Lesbians, Feb. 1978

"In 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 know it. ... And 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."

---Larry Kramer, writer and founder of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash

Power (ACT-UP), in Reports from the Holocaust (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991)

"It is quite difficult to lay down barriers [particularly since] it could be that the child, with his own sexuality, may have desired the adult."

---Michel Foucault speaking against age-of-consent laws, as cited in

James Miller's The Passion of Michel Foucault (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992)

" My own initiation came long before I was legally adult. Though a number of males around my age offered to participate, a woman ten years my senior was "responsible," at my invitation and encouragement. The only fault I find with that part of my sexual education was the limit her guilt and fear put on our pleasure, the heterosexual pressure even she felt required to put on me. What she did "for my own good" caused both of us pain. If I were to improve on that experience now, it would not be to protect children from adult seduction but to make adults easier to seduce, less burdened with fear or guilt, less defended by hypocrisy. ...

If we accepted sexual behaviour between children and adults, we would be far more able to protect our children from abuse and exploitation than we are now."

---Jane Rule, lesbian feminist, "Teaching Sexuality" in Flaunting It,

Vancouver, New Star Press, 1982

"...in cases of mutual consent and mutual sexual attraction, sexual activity itself [between men and boys] seems to produce no damaging effects. It is to be hoped that this may put parents' minds at rest and help them to avoid being unnecessarily upset and anxious."

---Dr. Preben Hertoft, eminent Copenhagen sexologist, "Introduction:

Paedophiles Don't Hurt Children" in Crime Without Victims (Amsterdam: Global Academic Publishers, 1993)

"I... have a friend facing a possible jail sentence for having sex with a couple of 15-year-olds. I love my friend; he is a good person. At the preliminary trial, it became evident to me that the "victims" were the seducers, who had already repeatedly had sex with each other. But in the eyes of the court, their age is the sole determining factor to be weighed.... From tea room to drag queen, I applaud every gay subculture.... Discrimination among ourselves is profoundly self-destructive. NAMBLA deserves to be heard and respected."

---Michael Kearns in "Men Loving Boys," in the Los Angeles gay

magazine Edge (August 31, 1988)

"Our foes waved NAMBLA Bulletins at the state capitol for years protesting the gay rights bill. But NAMBLA has made very strong statements and distinctions against child abuse. How many of its opponents have really listened to what the organization actually supports?"

---from an editorial, "Accepting Diversity," in the Hartford,

Connecticut, gay magazine Metroline, July 26, 1991

"It is possible that the pedophile's marginal position alerts him not only to self-interest but the pains suffered by all the outcast. This is not a necessary consequence of pedophilia, of course, any more than virtue is of poverty. Still, that passion for helping the child is so strong in pedophile relations that even the police acknowledge it."

---James Kincaid, professor of English at University of Southern

California, in Child Loving (New York: Routledge, 1992)

"Those who oppose intergenerational sex believe that a kid's life is ruined if he or she has sex with an older person. Exactly what takes place is irrelevant; all such sex falls under the rubric of 'child molestation' and is irrevocably damaging. I think this idea is patently false. A child who is raped at a very young age and a sexually active adolescent boy who has as affair with an older man have nothing in common."

---Cris Guttierrez writing in Frighten the Horses (San Francisco),

issue #10, fall 1992

"Boy-lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers are the only people offering a hand to help young women and men cross the difficult terrain between straight society and the gay community. They are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their stale morality onto the young people in their custody. Instead of condemning pedophiles for their involvement with lesbian and gay youth, we should be supporting them."

---Pat Califia, lesbian author and activist, in The Advocate, Oct. 1980

"If I were to see the case of a boy aged ten or eleven who's intensely erotically attracted toward a man in his twenties or thirties, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way."

---John Money, Professor Emeritus of Medical Psychology, Johns

Hopkins University, in an interview in Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, spring 1991

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

-- Roy Radow Now: radow@netcom.com (was: roy@panix.com) North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018. Send $5 for current Bulletin with amount credited toward membership fee. Publications list available upon request.

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Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 11:47:29 -0700 From: Roy Radow <radow@netcom.com>

SELECTED READINGS ON MAN/BOY LOVE

For a current listing of publications and periodicals available from NAMBLA, write to:

NAMBLA Info, P.O. Box 174, Dept. RR

Midtown Station, New York, N.Y. 10018.

NAMBLA Publications

NAMBLA Bulletin (10 issues per year) 1980 to date.

NAMBLA News & NAMBLA Journal (NAMBLA's periodic literary publication)

Boys Speak Out On Man/Boy Love (Boys talk about their experiences with men)

Since You Asked (Some questions and answers about man/boy love)

A Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI vs NAMBLA (The inside story about our victory over state harassment)

Political

The Boston Sex Scandal by Mitzel. Glad Day Books, Boston, 1980.

Indecent Assault by Roger Moody. Word Is Out/Peace News, London, 1980.

Paedophilia: The Radical Case by Tom O'Carroll. Alyson Publications, Boston, 1982.

Loving Boys: Semiotext(e) Special. Semiotext(e), New York, 1980.

Scientific

Children and Sex: New Findings, New Perspectives by Larry Constantine & Floyd M. Martinson (eds.). Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1980.

Boys On Their Contacts With Men by Theo Sandfort, Global Academic Publishers, Elmhurst, New York, 1987.

Perspectives on Paedophilia by Brian Taylor (ed.). Batsford Academic & Educational Ltd., London, 1981.

Paedophilia: A Factual Report by Frits Bernard. Enclave, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1985.

Sexual Experience Between Men and Boys by Parker Rossman. Maurice Temple Smith Ltd., Middlesex, Great Britain, 1985.

Children's Sexual Encounters With Adults by C.K. Li, D.J. West & T.P. Woodhouse. Gerald Duckworth & Co., London, 1990.

General

Greek Love by J.Z. Eglinton. Oliver Layton Press, New York, 1964.

Loving Boys by Edward Brongersma. Global Academic Publishers, Elmhurst. New York. Vol. 1, 1986; Vol. 2, 1990.

Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia by Joseph Geraci (ed.). Postbus 15463, 1001 ML Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1987 to date.

Male Intergenerational Intimacy by Theo Sandfort, Edward Brongersma & Alex van Naerssen (Eds.). Harrington Park Press, Binghamton, New York, 1991.

The Age Taboo by Daniel Tsang (Ed.). Alyson Publications, Boston, 1981

The Betrayal Of Youth by Warren Middleton (Ed.). CL Publications, London, 1986.

The Children's Rights Movement: Overcoming The Oppression Of Young People by Beatrice & Ronald Gross (Eds.). Anchor Books, Garden City, New York, 1977.

Birth Rights: A Bill Of Rights For Children by Richard Farson. MacMillan Publishing Co., New York, 1974.

The Man They Called A Monster by Paul Wilson. Cassell Australia Ltd., North Ryde, NSW, 1982.

The Politics Of Child Abuse by Paul & Shirley Eberle. Lyle Stuart Inc., Secaucus, New Jersey, 1986.

Wounded Innocents by Richard Wexler. Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1990.

Threatened Children: Rhetoric & Concern About Child Victims by Joel Best. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1990.

Sex Abuse Hysteria: Salem Witch Trials Revisited by Richard A. Gardner. Creative Therapeutics, Cresskill, New Jersey, 1991.

Crime Without Victims by Trobriands collective (Eds.). Global Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1993.

(A short list of some current scientific journal articles is also available upon request.)

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

-- Roy Radow Now: radow@netcom.com (was: roy@panix.com) North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018. Send $5 for current Bulletin with amount credited toward membership fee. Publications list available upon request.

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 94 11:33:58 EDT From: Bob Summersgill <XE605C@gwuvm.gwu.edu> Subject: Senate on NAMBLA

Senate demands U.N. end ties with NAMBLA
By Jim Abrams
(c) Jan. 26, 1994, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) _ U.S. contributions to the United Nations would be slashed
sharply unless it cuts its ties with organizations that condone pedophilia, the
Senate voted today.
In an amendment to the State Department authorization bill, the Senate voted
99-0 to reduce U.S. contributions for international organizations by $119
million in each of the fiscal years 1994 and 1995 unless the president
certifies the U.N. has cut off links with such groups.
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., submitted the amendment, citing a decision last
summer by the U.N. Economic and Social Council to grant consultative status to
the Brussels-based International Lesbian and Gay Association.
Helms noted that one member of the association is the ``notorious North
American Man Boy Love Association, a group founded in Boston in 1978 to promote
consensual relations between men and boys.
``I never fathomed that the day would come when the United Nations would
officially condone the sexual molestation of children, Helms said on the
Senate floor Tuesday.
Helms said the United States joined 21 other nations in voting to give
consultative status to the International Lesbian and Gay Association. Four
nations voted against it and 17 abstained.
The State Department, Helms said, was not aware that the North American Man
Boy Love Association, or NAMBLA, was a member of ILGA. ``They are horribly
embarrassed about this episode, and they should be.
Gregory J. King, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign Fund, said his
group, the largest lesbian and gay rights group in the United States, had no
objection to the Helms amendment.
``NAMBLA is not a gay organization, King said, noting that his group
refuses to join ILGA as long as NAMBLA is a member. He said the Belgian
organization is now going through a process of expelling NAMBLA.
A final vote on the authorization bill, which approves more than $12 billion
for the State Department and related agencies in 1994 and 1995, is expected in
several days. The House passed its version of the bill last summer.

- Bob Summersgill | Xq28 -- Thanks Mom!

 XE605C @ GWUVM.GWU.EDU |

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>From: "Russell Johannesson" <russell@cpp.pha.pa.us>
>Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 20:46:58 -0500 (EST)

                              SOS
                       Spirit of Stonewall
                       c/o Gayme Magazine
                          PO Box 15645
            Boston, MA 02215 Tel.(617) 695-8015
                       Fax (617) 266-1125
                     NAMBLA MARCHES WITH US
                 AT STONEWALL 25, JUNE 26, 1994

Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) calls on Stonewall 25 and the gay and
lesbian movement to return to its roots. The Christopher Street
uprising was an outcry by those at the bottom and on the margins
of society against puritanical self-righteousness and bigotry.
It was a cry for full sexual liberation as part of the struggle
for social justice. Stonewall was the spontaneous action of
marginal people oppressed by the mainstream - of teenaged drag
queens, pederasts, transsexuals, hustlers, and others despised by
respectable straights and "discreet" homosexuals. They did not
call for their rights, they seized their own freedom. They did
not ask for integration into middle-class America, they screamed
against its pretensions of propriety.

SOS is an ad hoc committee of lesbian, gay and other individuals
and groups formed to bring Stonewall 25 back to the principles of
gay liberation. We focus on one of the most glaring departures
from those principles: the attempt to exclude the North American
Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), and possibly other groups,
from the Stonewall 25 March and from their place within
gay/lesbian space and discourse.

Red-baiting, scapegoating, censorship and exclusion have been
hallmarks of American society. Just as unions, the civil rights
and peace movements were pressured to cleanse themselves of
suspected "communists," the lesbian/gay movement is now expected
to rid itself of social misfits, the vulnerable pederasts first
of all. Never before has such an ostensibly progressive movement
jumped so quickly through the hoops of its enemies. At least
there were years of debates among activists before some
capitulated to McCarthyism. ILGA, the Human Rights Campaign
Fund, Stonewall 25, and others who claim to support sexual
minorities and human rights have stumbled over each other as they
rush to deny these rights to those deemed unacceptable.

We find this the height of hypocrisy - to invoke the name of
Stonewall to cast out the alleged molesters among us. The issue
is not, first of all, intergenerational sex - although that is
one the movement needs to confront honestly rather than avoid.
SOS takes no stand specifically on age of consent laws or sex
between adults and those deemed legally "children." The issues
that now confront Stonewall 25 are free speech, free association
and inclusiveness.

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. It has demonstrated in solidarity
with people with AIDS, and for lesbians in custody cases. NAMBLA
takes progressive positions on U.S. intervention in Central
America, the military draft, reproductive rights, the death
penalty, corporal punishment and racism. NAMBLA publicly
condemns the exploitation of children, including genuine sexual
abuse. NAMBLA believes the interests of young people demand not
paternalistic protection, but empowerment to make real choices.
Every organization within Stonewall 25 need not endorse every one
of the other organization's positions. NAMBLA's call for the
abolition of the 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 members' protection from discrimination and
bashing.

    Unless we return to the principles of Stonewall, the fate of
NAMBLA today may be the fate of other "different" and
"controversial" causes tomorrow. Gay and lesbian activists
before Stonewall understood the task of liberation. We agree
with the 1951 Mattachine Society slogan: "We will integrate as a
group on our own terms, or we will not integrate at all." We
will define our own agenda and decide for ourselves who we are!
Within our movement, if our brother or sister self-identifies as
gay, we will march with them and they with us. We call on
Stonewall 25 to rescind its attempt to ban NAMBLA. Meanwhile,
SOS announces: NAMBLA marches with us!

SIGNED: Harry Hay, Pat Califia, Gayle Rubin, Chris Bearchelli,
Scott O'Hara, Charley Shively, David Thorstad, Tom Reeves, Jim
Becker AND:

NAME:___________________________________________________________

ADDRESS:________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________
Telephones:

(h)__________________(w)________________(FAX)___________________

Identification: (Writer, Activist, Professor, Name of
Organization or Publication, etc. - does not imply endorsement):

________________________________________________________________

GROUP ENDORSEMENT: (if a group officially endorses the SOS call)

________________________________________________________________

I (WE) WILL MARCH IN NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1994 WITH
SOS:________________________________
WE CANNOT MARCH, but we will march "in spirit":_________________
WE NEED HOUSING (Limited Availability at $30 per night, two to
three persons per room):______________________


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Received from russell@cpp.pha.pa.us Sun May 8 22:06:08 1994

Subject: Spirit of Stonewall


                              SOS

                      Spirit of Stonewall

                      c/o Gayme Magazine

                         PO Box 15645

           Boston, MA 02215 Tel.(617) 695-8015

                      Fax (617) 266-1125

                    NAMBLA MARCHES WITH US

                AT STONEWALL 25, JUNE 26, 1994


Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) calls on Stonewall 25 and the gay and

lesbian movement to return to its roots. The Christopher Street

uprising was an outcry by those at the bottom and on the margins

of society against puritanical self-righteousness and bigotry.

It was a cry for full sexual liberation as part of the struggle

for social justice. Stonewall was the spontaneous action of

marginal people oppressed by the mainstream - of teenaged drag

queens, pederasts, transsexuals, hustlers, and others despised by

respectable straights and "discreet" homosexuals. They did not

call for their rights, they seized their own freedom. They did

not ask for integration into middle-class America, they screamed

against its pretensions of propriety.


SOS is an ad hoc committee of lesbian, gay and other individuals

and groups formed to bring Stonewall 25 back to the principles of

gay liberation. We focus on one of the most glaring departures

from those principles: the attempt to exclude the North American

Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), and possibly other groups,

from the Stonewall 25 March and from their place within

gay/lesbian space and discourse.


Red-baiting, scapegoating, censorship and exclusion have been

hallmarks of American society. Just as unions, the civil rights

and peace movements were pressured to cleanse themselves of

suspected "communists," the lesbian/gay movement is now expected

to rid itself of social misfits, the vulnerable pederasts first

of all. Never before has such an ostensibly progressive movement

jumped so quickly through the hoops of its enemies. At least

there were years of debates among activists before some

capitulated to McCarthyism. ILGA, the Human Rights Campaign

Fund, Stonewall 25, and others who claim to support sexual

minorities and human rights have stumbled over each other as they

rush to deny these rights to those deemed unacceptable.


We find this the height of hypocrisy - to invoke the name of

Stonewall to cast out the alleged molesters among us. The issue

is not, first of all, intergenerational sex - although that is

one the movement needs to confront honestly rather than avoid.

SOS takes no stand specifically on age of consent laws or sex

between adults and those deemed legally "children." The issues

that now confront Stonewall 25 are free speech, free association

and inclusiveness.


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. It has demonstrated in solidarity

with people with AIDS, and for lesbians in custody cases. NAMBLA

takes progressive positions on U.S. intervention in Central

America, the military draft, reproductive rights, the death

penalty, corporal punishment and racism. NAMBLA publicly

condemns the exploitation of children, including genuine sexual

abuse. NAMBLA believes the interests of young people demand not

paternalistic protection, but empowerment to make real choices.

Every organization within Stonewall 25 need not endorse every one

of the other organization's positions. NAMBLA's call for the

abolition of the 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 members' protection from discrimination and

bashing.


    Unless we return to the principles of Stonewall, the fate of

NAMBLA today may be the fate of other "different" and

"controversial" causes tomorrow. Gay and lesbian activists

before Stonewall understood the task of liberation. We agree

with the 1951 Mattachine Society slogan: "We will integrate as a

group on our own terms, or we will not integrate at all." We

will define our own agenda and decide for ourselves who we are!

Within our movement, if our brother or sister self-identifies as

gay, we will march with them and they with us. We call on

Stonewall 25 to rescind its attempt to ban NAMBLA. Meanwhile,

SOS announces: NAMBLA marches with us!


SIGNED: Harry Hay, Pat Califia, Gayle Rubin, Chris Bearchelli,

Scott O'Hara, Charley Shively, David Thorstad, Tom Reeves, Jim

Becker AND:


NAME:___________________________________________________________


ADDRESS:________________________________________________________


________________________________________________________________

Telephones:


(h)__________________(w)________________(FAX)___________________


Identification: (Writer, Activist, Professor, Name of

Organization or Publication, etc. - does not imply endorsement):


________________________________________________________________


GROUP ENDORSEMENT: (if a group officially endorses the SOS call)


________________________________________________________________


I (WE) WILL MARCH IN NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1994 WITH

SOS:________________________________

WE CANNOT MARCH, but we will march "in spirit":_________________

WE NEED HOUSING (Limited Availability at $30 per night, two to

three persons per room):______________________


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The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) supports
the rights of all people to engage in consensual relations, and
we oppose laws which destroy loving relationships merely on the
basis of the age of the participants.

NAMBLA does not say that ALL children should engage in such
relationships.

However we believe that when this does occur society should be
able to distinguish between those relationships that are loving,
supportive and mutually desired, and those which are harmful and
involve force or coercion.

NAMBLA unequivocally condemns all coercive or non-consensual acts,
sexual or otherwise, between people of any age.

NAMBLA supports youth liberation and the empowerment of young people
in all areas of their lives (not just sexual). We believe that there
should also be improved education and the establishment of viable
community resources so that young people are better able to manage
their own lives and function as productive citizens of this society.

Yours in Liberation,

Roy

--
Roy Radow Now: radow@netcom.com (was: roy@panix.com)
North American Man/Boy Love Association -For membership info & brochure
write to: NAMBLA, Dept. RR, PO Box 174, Midtown Station, NYC, NY 10018.
Send $5 for current Bulletin with amount credited toward membership fee.
Publications list available upon request.

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From: an61191@anon.penet.fi (The Galaxy Being)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 19:42:50 UTC
Subject: GLAAD vs. NAMBLA -- quotes & comparisons

With thanks to <case_doug%mailgw@sdsu.edu>, let's analyse and compare the
positions of GLAAD, ILGA, and NAMBLA. I'll quote directly from NAMBLA's
_Constitution and Position Papers_ as revised on August 21, 1992. I'll also
give my comments in brackets as well as the page numbers for those who want to
do further research.

GLAAD> GLAAD/USA Position Statement Regarding NAMBLA
 GLAAD>
 GLAAD> The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
 GLAAD> deplores North American Man Boy Love Association's (NAMBLA)
 GLAAD> goals which include advocacy for sex between adult men and
 GLAAD> boys and the removal of legal protections for children.
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[I think NAMBLA is *not* trying to "remove" anything, please read on...]

GLAAD> GLAAD concurs with the 1990 ILGA resolution based on
 GLAAD> the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which states,
 GLAAD> "Major power imbalances create the potential for child
 GLAAD> abuse. ILGA condemns the exploitive use of power
 GLAAD> differences to coerce others into sexual relationships. All
 GLAAD> children have the right to protection from sexual
 GLAAD> exploitation and abuse."

"NAMBLA _condemns those who exploit children_ and others for profit in
pornography ..." [p.6, italics theirs.]

[but on the other hand,]

"[NAMBLA] opposes all attempts by the state to interfere with consensual and
non-coercive sexuality..." [p.7; this is a _broad_ statement: no age limits,
no orientational limits, etc.]

[more anti-abuse stances, not *all* of them, however:]

"NAMBLA condemns and opposes circumcision and clitoridectomies as anti-sexual
assaults on children and their right to the full enjoyment and control of
their own bodies." [p.9, talk about "abuse", eh?]

"... [NAMBLA calls] for the adoption of laws that both protect children from
unwanted sexual experiences and advances, and at the same time leave them free
to determine the content of their own sexual experience. Age-of-consent laws
deny children this right ...

[but,]

"LAWS PRESENTLY EXIST IN ALL PROVINCES AND STATES TO PROTECT PEOPLE OF ALL
AGES FROM RAPE, INTIMIDATION, COERCION, AND ABUSE. Such laws are weakest in
their application to children, in that they fail to adequately empower
children to initiate and sustain legal proceedings against those who mistreat
them. Much child abuse, both physical and emotional, results from this
anti-child bias in the law, and is perpetrated largely by parents, other
relatives, school and social service personnel, and by the police. Laws that
are designed to protect people from mistratment should be accordingly
strengthened to protect children equally. Age-of-consent laws do not
accomplish this, however, as they do not protect children from mistreatment
but rather from sex itself...

"... Children especially, and all people in general, must be empowered to
have control over all aspects of their lives, so far as the exercise of that
control does not infringe on the rights of others.

"Children in our society are presently denied that control, and are treated in
the law and in fact as virtually THE *PROPERTY* OF THEIR PARENTS AND WARDS OF
THE STATE, TO BE *USED* AS THEIR PARENTS AND THE STATE WISH. CONSEQUENTLY,
our children are UNACCUSTOMED TO MAKING DECISIONS of importance which affect
themselves and UNACCUSTOMED TO LEARNING FROM THE RESULTS OF SUCH DECISIONS.
Out of THIS unfamiliarity with decision-making ARISES THE BELIEF that children
are incapable of responsibly controlling their own lives. Children in other
cultures where society ALLOWS them GREATER SELF-DETERMINATION *are* in fact
MORE functional and capable THAN OUR OWN children at the SAME chronological
age.

"Sex education should be made available to children as early AS CHILDREN

• WISH*..." [p.10, emphases mine in these last few paragraphs to stress the
  

point properly: just who/what is trying to exploit their power?]

"Young people in our society are denied nearly all the human rights [possessed
by adults], and are presumed to be irrational and incapable. The policy of
protection toward children growing out of this philosophy assumes that parents
or their state-appointed substitutes can only relate to children from the
standpoint of benevolent domination.

"Children are subject to abuse as a result of this hierarchical relationship.
Their humanity is demeaned and their growth stunted..." [p.11, going on to
enumerate several "civil rights" which "are inalienable" to kids in
particular, such as:]

"... Young people are necessary participants in democracy, entitled to the
full benefits of self-governance and to full protection from both the
government's and parents' abuse of power...

"... 1) complete freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, and privacy; 2)
equal protection against discrimination; 3) freedom from involuntary servitude
...; 4) the right to due process; 5) protection from illegal search and
seizure [*ahem* including parents as far as I'm concerned!]; 6) the right of
equal participation in political processes; and 7) the right to serve on
juries." [p.11-12]

GLAAD> Although statistics indicate that the vast majority
 GLAAD> of sexual abuse against children is perpetrated by
 GLAAD> heterosexual men, it is imperative that child abuse, in all
                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^
 GLAAD> forms, be condemned by gay men and lesbians.

[I feel this is a term which NAMBLA is trying to more accurately define. You
want more quotes? All found on pages 14-15, all caps/italics theirs:]

"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT [such as 'spanking'] IS CHILD ABUSE... NAMBLA advocates
[for laws which call] on all adults to use positive, loving, non-threatening
attitudes in relating to, educating, and disciplining others, especially the
young.

"_Kidnapping_ is a crime rooted in the concept of children as property...

"Parents and legally appointed guardians are permitted to force minors in
their care to go to places and stay in places the minor objects to... In some
countries, governments have ombudspersons who act as children's advocates and
help them escape from unwanted living arrangements. In a nation officially
opposed to slavery for over 100 years, NAMBLA calls for an end to _de facto_
child slavery in this country, by instituting similar child advocacy
legislation here...

"... Current legislation treats rape as a sexual act and considers
establishing the use of force as secondary to establishing the occurrence of
so-called 'sexual activities.' In cases of consensual sexual activity
involving a minor and an adult, age-of-consent legislation is used to totally
ignore the presence or absence of force, threats or coercion. It equates rape
with all sex.

"Rape is not sex and it is not love. A person who forces, threatens or
coerces a boy is not a 'boy-lover,' and it is inaccurate to refer to him or
her as such. The same is true of anyone who kidnaps, exploits or assaults
boys...

"... NAMBLA CONDEMNS RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT. Age-of-consent laws, however,
are not 'rape laws for minors,' but are anti-sex legislation designed to
prevent minors from engaging in any type of erotic activity...

"EXPLOITATION, SEXUAL OR OTHERWISE, IS NEITHER APPROVED OF NOR PRACTICED BY
NAMBLA... NAMBLA recognizes that exploitation occurs in the areas of hustling
and the publication of erotica ... Exploitation of the young occurs just as
frequently in many other areas, most notably in youth shelters and service
programs ...

"NAMBLA CONDEMNS CORPORAL PUNISHMENT, KIDNAPPING, RAPE AND SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION... It is grounds for expulsion from NAMBLA..."

[isn't *any* of this sinking in???]

GLAAD> As a group of people who historically have not had
 GLAAD> legal rights and protections, gay men and lesbians have
 GLAAD> always work with, and built coalitions with, other whose
 GLAAD> rights are at risk. The true gay and lesbian agenda is
 GLAAD> ultimately about free human right for all people.

[What about the children? It seems to me NAMBLA is merely trying to extend
the term "free human rights for all people" *TO* ALL PEOPLE, INCLUDING KIDS.]

GLAAD> --Adopted by the GLAAD/USA Board of Directors,
 GLAAD> January 16, 1994, San Diego, CA

[*sigh* GLAAD adopted this apparently without so much as asking NAMBLA for
insight as to its positions, which I think can be summed up thus:]

"The government should stay out of the bedroom. The attempts to repress and
control sexuality have caused untold harm both to individuals and to society
as a whole." [p.8]



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