From Our Mailbox

	Allen Ginsberg – Fearless Poet by Peter Herman, April 2, 2021
	America is Having too Many Bad Days by Peter Herman, March 20, 2021
	Will This not Make Anyone's Blood Boil? Have you no shame Mr, Trump? by Peter Herman, December 25, 2020
	Break The Barrier: Defeatism and Hopelessness We have recently received the following heartfelt essay from "Kenny," a fourteen-year-old boy, and though we have not met him, we are confident that it is genuine. We have always championed the rights of young people to their own agency and remind our readers that the First Amendment of the US Constitution applies to all, regardless of age. by "Kenny," August 18, 2020
	What Does Mary Kay Letourneau's Life Teach Us? Seeking meaning from a woman's undying love for a twelve-year-old boy by Peter Herman, July 11, 2020
	"Has the Gay Movement Failed"? Review of Martin Duberman's book by "Onyx," in his debut work here July 4, 2020
	"What Does the Current Turmoil Have To Do With Us? Outrage over rampant police violence from our perspective by Peter Herman June 7, 2020
	NAMBLA Answers Filmmakers' Questions And the filmmakers ignored them completely and appear to have abandoned the project altogether. However, the questions were fairly good ones and so we thought to reprint them here along with our responses. by Eric Tazelaar September 27, 2019
	"As Young As [fill-in the blank]" The News Media (and, by extension, the police) "as young as..." trope in monstering the late Jeffrey Epstein. by Peter Herman September 23, 2019
	When the Chickens Come Home To Roost We tend to believe Christine Blasey-Ford, too. by Peter Herman September 30, 2018
	Amos Yee Won't Shut Up! Amos Yee in Conversation with by Eric Tazelaar May 31, 2018
	SCOTUS & US: The U.S. Supreme Court's Rulings On "Sex Offenders" & Child Pornography, 1982 to Present by Eric Tazelaar February 23, 2017
	When Labour Loved Liberty (and Before They Changed Their Minds) by Eric Tazelaar March 13, 2014
	Remembering A Lover of Boys Michael Jackson's Dangerous Liaisons, by Tom O'Carroll Reviewed by Eric Tazelaar May 29, 2013
	The 'Non-Wisdom' of Crowds Defender of Anonymous Outraged By Our Lack of Passivity by Eric Tazelaar & Joe Power May 10, 2013
	Hipster Vigilantism and the New Populist Attack On Free Speech Anonymous' Decidedly Illiberal Campaign To Silence Us by Eric Tazelaar April 26, 2014
	Tom Flanagan's Ultimate Career Stopper How a Conservative Party eminence came up against the limits of free speech in Canada. by Eric Tazelaar March 6, 2013
	If Oprah's Lying About Being Sexually Abused As A Child, Who Else Might Be? The dangers to which we come when truth is suppressed by a culture, a media, a government and one very powerful individual by Eric Tazelaar January 19, 2013
	Rupert's Comeuppance The unraveling of a once cozy relationship by Adam Davies December 9, 2012
	The Recurring Myth of the NAMBLA Membership List Our membership list has NEVER come into the possession of  any unauthorized person or law enforcement agency, regardless of any reports otherwise. by Eric Tazelaar June 27, 2012
	The Disappearance of Etan Patz and, With Him, Another Age by Eric Tazelaar May 28, 2012
	Note: On May 28, 2012, We have added answers to a second set of follow-up questions, below: Answers to questions for a Swiss radio documentary
	An Extraordinary Life: writings by, or about, Tom Reeves We Remember Tom Reeves, one of NAMbLA's Founders March 2, 2012
	Some Thoughts on Joe Paterno by Peter Herman January 24, 2011
	Soft Science, Hard Time: The Expanding Sexual Regulatory State As Facilitated By 'Science-LIght' more by Eric Tazelaar December 24, 2011
	Book Review: "The Trauma Myth" by Susan A. Clancy Clancy bravely contends that adult/child sexual interactions are seldom traumatic to the child at the time of occurrence. In the predictable furor that resulted, she is at pains to clarify her position on "pedophilia": she's very much against it. by Peter Herman December 1, 2011

NAMBLA, Humor and the Media An essay examining popular cultural references to NAMBLA and how the media distorts our message by Peter Herman November 20, 2011

An Open Response to LGBT Misconceptions

We respond to South Florida Gay News' perfunctory dismissal of intergenerational relationships. (more)

 NOTICE: It has recently come to our attention that one or more persons are using the word NAMBLA as part of an identifier on Twitter. We want to make it  perfectly clear that our organization does not participate in any on-line social media, has never done so, and never will. Anyone using our name should be reported to the site for a violation of their terms-of-service.

Gay Marriage
 - an opinion piece by Peter Herman

Reluctant congratulations may be in order for the beneficiaries of New York State's gay marriage bill. Though marriage is not everybody's thing, one can understand the aspirations of those who long for social acceptance and for the open recognition of their love and choice of partners. I say reluctant because it is quite clear that a good segment of the gay community had to be co-opted by government to achieve their current but tenuous degree of acceptance and, now, the dubious privilege of attaching the word "marriage" to  civil unions that would otherwise have had all the same privileges  and responsibilities.

In aping the heterosexual lifestyle ("We're just like everybody else except for our choice of partners.")  much of the gay leadership has cast overboard those they felt to be a liability. They would also disown, were they alive today, the likes of  Allan Ginsberg, Oscar Wilde, Socrates and many other  such luminaries and icons of civilization. Even if we do not agree with the assimilationist aspirations of those seeking gay marriages, we can admire the steadfastness of those  who struggled to  achieve their goal. Were they only to grant the same tolerance for the love that does dare to speak its name, the same love celebrated in the art and poetry of many cultures, the love between man and boy that was once synonymous with forbidden homosexuality.

The opponents of gay marriages, including hypocrites in the Catholic Church, claimed to know what is natural and what the word of their variously characterized gods is. These naysayers are certainly entitled to their opinions but they fail to grasp that these are far from universal.

For those who would deny the expression of mutually felt love and affection, we say believe what you will but do not invent harm where there is none.

Zeitgeist
A new regular column with links to things worth reading about. (more ...)

A Truly Odious Ruling
The Catch-22 is officially enshrined in New Jersey state law. (more ... )

The American Psikhushka
The pseudo-scientific justifications for the irrational treatment of man/boy love have precedents. (more ... )

Scott Brown's Story Reveals America's Greatest Concerns For Child Abuse
Why does physical abuse of children seem to be an afterthought to the U.S. media?  An opinion piece by Eric Tazelaar (more ... )

Is Fox Gullible?                
Somebody didn't do their homework (more ... )

The Lie Of Freedom Versus the Truth Of Family
A remembrance of a Nobel Prize winner persecuted for loving boys (more ... )

Guilt By Association, Twice Removed
The rightwing media elements are at it again.  One of their most recent attacks has been aimed at Kevin Jennings, the Safe Schools Czar nominee.  (more ... )

Walking the Line (again)
Years ago, members of NAMBLA had the audacity to demonstrate in front of Bridgewater State Hospital.  The demonstrators marched with signs denouncing the treatment of men being held for consensual relationships outlawed by the state.  (more ... )

Prison Scandal at Coalinga
Denizens of the state "mental health" prison in Coalinga, California are challenging the conditions of their confinement. The death of an inmate has brought attention to the conditions at the facility.  (more ... )