Quote from 1989:
Poet Allen Ginsberg will give a reading to climax NAMBLA’s 13th Membership Conference, scheduled November 10-12 in New York City. [...] America’s premier living poet, Ginsberg helped launch the Beat movement in literature, both with the quality of his own work and his tireless promotion of other writers such as Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. [...]
Quote from 1989:
Robert Wren – a gay scholar, activist and writer – died June 11 in a plane crash in Hawaii. He was 61. Wren was professor of English at the University of Houston and an informal advisor to the gay and lesbian student group at the University. He served on the NAMBLA steering committee and the editorial board of the Journal of Homosexuality.
Quote from 1990:
Advocacy for children that is dominated by females and heterosexuals is not enough. Males, including those who have the gift of being gay, pederast, and pedophile, have unique perspectives on children’s welfare. A sensitive and democratic child advocacy also includes the contributions of adults who, as young persons, had the pleasure of a positive sexual relationship with an adult. [...]
Quote from 1988:
The man who murdered former NAMBLA activist Bob Burdick was sentenced last December to serve 10-32 years in prison. Edward Patterson, 39, was a roommate of Burdick’s when he murdered him in July 1985. Patterson, who has a long history of psychiatric problems and served two years in jail for threatening Reagan, claimed that he killed Burdick to keep him from having sex with young people. Prosecutor Joel Seideman said the killing was sparked by a money dispute. [...]
Quote:
Caller (male): I’m calling from Palm Beach, Florida. I was not sexually molested, I was sexually aroused when I was twelve by my 24-year-old cousin. And when I was seventeen, I moved in with him, and we have a strong loving relationship now. What I’m interested in knowing is what percent of members of Mr. [David] Thorstad’s organization [NAMBLA] have been so lucky.
source: ‘Transcript of ABC Television’s ”The Last Word,” December 29, 1982′; Published in the book ‘A Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI vs. NAMBLA’; Published by the North American Man/Boy Love Association; New York; 1985; Television program: 29 December 1982
Quote:
I am a member of NAMBLA, and have been since I was 15 years old, because NAMBLA is fighting for my rights as a young person. The state says I have no right to control my own body, to have sex with whomever I choose. The state restricts my ability to earn a living, and says who I can and cannot live with. NAMBLA concerns itself with the rights of young people to have some measure of control over their own lives. We believe that the sexual oppression of children is one of the important tools society uses to control its young.
Quote:
Shortly before joining NAMBLA, I encountered a new source of outrage: I heard a report on National Public Radio describing an explosion in the growth of ”treatment centers” for so-called ”juvenile sex offenders” in Texas. In these centers, teenaged and pre-teen boys are told that any non-normative sexual desires (i.e. anything not approved by the shrinks) on their part are signs of fundamental flaws in their constitution – that they are, deep down inside, damaged people, who must fight their evil impulses eternally, but who will never win the fight against their inborn demons.
Quote:
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.
Quote:
NAMBLA is often falsely portrayed in the media as an organization of ”child molesters” in part because we have consistently and adamantly opposed age-of-consent laws. Of course, the media never seems to follow up with any questions about why we oppose them. We see age-of-consent laws operating in our society in much the same way as burquas function in fundamentalist Islamic societies – ostensibly to protect a group but ultimately to oppress it. We reject the notion that sexual love is so horrible that (in our case) men and boys must be kept firmly apart by the most dire methods.
source: Press release ‘Guilt By Association, Twice Removed’ by NAMBLA; NAMBLA.org; 14 October 2009
Citaat:
Eén van de leden, Maria Pronk, leidde vorig jaar juni de pedofilie-discussie op de ILGA-conferentie in New York. De North American Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) en in haar kielzog onder meer de Nederlandse Vereniging Martijn werden toen na een verhitte discussie uit de ILGA gezet. ”She did a hell of a job”, zegt Hein Verkerk [GroenLinks] waarderend over haar optreden daar.
bron: Artikel ‘Hein Verkerk, COC’s man in Straatsburg – Gedreven roepen op Europees niveau’ door Paul van Yperen; XL; april 1995