In October (LGBT History Month), I wrote a piece in defense of Obama’s openly gay “Safe Schools Czar,” Kevin Jennings. Mostly, I objected to the attacks on Jennings for his one-time, on-the-spot advice to a troubled, promiscuous teenage boy (urging him to practice safe sex – if the teen insisted on continuing to pick up men). I also disagreed with the inflammatory notion that Jennings’s admiration for gay rights pioneer (and legendary moonbat) Harry Hay was an endorsement of pedophilia.
Hay was not a pedophile. His big crime was being a hippie whose reason for waking up in the morning was to turn traditional sex roles upside down. Hay even hated the macho “clone” look that swept though the gay community in the 1970s-80s, which he viewed as a dangerous capitulation to straight concepts of masculinity. He relished playing devil’s advocate.
Unfortunately, Hay did lend his name in support of NAMBLA, mostly because the group had been rejected by mainstream gays, who were then still fighting to assimilate; in the counterculture universe of Harry Hay, that was a no-no. But NAMBLA was just another gender-bending mind game for the aging “Radical Faerie” founder, not his driving passion. Hay was no child molester; he was a kook – who enjoyed a committed, 40-year relationship with a man his own age that lasted until his death in 2002. (more…)
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