New and Noteworthy

Published: 2003Updated: NAMBLA

New and Noteworthy

When the Oppressed become the Oppressor Web filters are the new weapon of choice for censors. For example, CyberPatrol blocks many sites which are neither pornographic nor harmful to children. The Anti-Defamation League and CyberPatrol are censoring minority viewpoints.

Oppose the Death Penalty! Our humanitarian ideals and progressivegoals are incompatible with the use of capital punishment. We are especially offended by the execution of children. All who share our philosophy of love and liberation are of a single mind in abhorrence of the death penalty. Let your opposition be known!

A Celebration for Oscar

More than a century after his release from prison, England today is celebrating its first public memorial to Oscar Wilde. Placed in Adelaide Street, near London's Trafalgar Square, the bronze monument was filmmaker Derek Jarman's idea. Was Wilde gay? You bet. Was he a boy-lover?

"Pederasty and Homosexuality" Transcript of a speech in honor of Mexico City's Lesbian and Gay Cultural Week, by one of NAMBLA's founders, David Thorstad. More than 600 people showed up for the talk: standing room only, and many had to be turned away.

"My Brother's Keeper" Our prisoner program seeks to provide moral support to incarcerated boy-lovers. This is a regular column with current news of what we are doing to keep in touch with prisoners, who are often forgotten by friends and family. Read what you can do to make a prisoner's life better.

Another "Communications Decency Act"? Yet another "Communications Decency Act"! A broad coalition has filed suit in Federal court to stop the tampering with communication on the Internet. This legislation contains most of the unconstitutional flaws of the original CDA. Help stop it!
Alfred Kinsey's 50th Anniversary 1999 was the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kinsey's pathbreaking studies, commencing in 1948. Here are some of his comments on "the social control of sexual behavior."