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Dudley Clendinen

by Dudley ClendinenPublished: 1983Updated:

 

 

DUDLEY  CLENDINEN

Special to the New York Times

BOSTON, Dec. 31 - Four years ago this month, after two dozen men were indicted for sex crimes in the nearby town of Revere, a conference was held downtown at the Community Church of Boston. About 30 men [and boys] stayed on to talk of the difficult issue discussed at the conference, and they decided to form an organization to promote understanding of their kind of love and to seek a change in the law. Thus, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where many of the laws on sexual conduct date from the Puritan period, was born the most provocative name of any homosexual organization in the United States: the North American Man-Boy Love Association, dedicated to the proposition that state laws establishing a sexual age of consent should be repealed. ...

    ~ from The New York Times, January 1, 1983 (page 1).

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