NAMBLA responds to the advocacy of children's rights by FHO and DNF-48

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. [...]

Furthermore, advocacy for children that wants to speak with one voice should not be dominated by the cultural values of Christian, white, Northern Europe. Gays and lesbians from the South and East, gay persons of color, and gays from minority groups also have a contribution to make to the advocacy for children's rights and the sexual welfare of children. Cultivating a climate of receptivity would open the discussion up.

For NAMBLA also wants to feel welcomed to participate in formulating the ideological and political framework under which many fewer children would be sexually exploited and harmed. A few of us are very carefully working on new papers that may be ready for presentation to the next annual ILGA meeting in Stockholm. But it isn't clear that ILGA member organizations need and want their Annual Meeting to be a forum for such an effort. Integrating the concerns of all into the advocacy for and care of the young takes time, but time will eventually benefit us all, including the children. Society will eventually be richer and more humane for the reintegration of boy love into the tapestry of sexual life.

source: 'NAMBLA Responds to the Advocacy of Children's Rights by FHO and DNF-48' by NAMBLA; IPCE Newsletter; Article from: 10 April 1990