Comments on: The Daily Agenda for Saturday, April 7 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/04/07/43408 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Mon, 20 May 2013 21:06:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Mudduck http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2012/04/07/43408/comment-page-1#comment-120956 Mudduck Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:59:30 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=43408#comment-120956 When coming out in 1982, I corresponded with Wallace Hamilton, author of <i>Coming Out</i> and <i>Kevin,</i> novels about intergenerational love affairs. He said that NAMBLA originally had been about giving teenaged gay boys the right of consent. He left the organization when it seemed to be about opening the grade-school market to exploitation by chicken hawks. (Hamilton also wrote <i>David at Olivet,</i> about David's affair, not with Jonathan, but with King Saul. Hamilton died in a fall in his Greenwich Village apartment before I moved to NYC; the manuscript of his memoirs in progress disappeared with his last roommate.) When coming out in 1982, I corresponded with Wallace Hamilton, author of Coming Out and Kevin, novels about intergenerational love affairs. He said that NAMBLA originally had been about giving teenaged gay boys the right of consent. He left the organization when it seemed to be about opening the grade-school market to exploitation by chicken hawks.

(Hamilton also wrote David at Olivet, about David’s affair, not with Jonathan, but with King Saul. Hamilton died in a fall in his Greenwich Village apartment before I moved to NYC; the manuscript of his memoirs in progress disappeared with his last roommate.)

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