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I was asking a friend of mine what she remembered of the old days and the early gay pride parades, particularly why it was that some gay men thought including NAMBLA was acceptable.
She answered that some gay men had been sexually introduced by older teens or young men and that their experiences were NOT exploitive or damaging to them. I hadn't considered that from that perspective. I'm as uncomfortable with NAMBLA as I've ever been but it does explain why lesbians and gay men fought in the early days of the gay civil rights movement.
I was asking a friend of mine what she remembered of the old days and the early gay pride parades, particularly why it was that some gay men thought including NAMBLA was acceptable.
She answered that some gay men had been sexually introduced by older teens or young men and that their experiences were NOT exploitive or damaging to them. I hadn't considered that from that perspective. I'm as uncomfortable with NAMBLA as I've ever been but it does explain why lesbians and gay men fought in the early days of the gay civil rights movement.