[Houmatt]

I find it odd how people like him insists on focussing upon inconsequential matters. Like the Kirk & Madsen book, for example... I don't know ANYBODY who has read it. I wonder if it's still available; and I wonder how pertinent it would be considering that it's 13 years out-of-date. I've never even SEEN a copy of that book. Yet Stevie's clear inference is that it's some kind of bible or play-book. Quite frankly, I think that's a ridiculous assertion.

Well, it is available at Amazon.com. If you don't want to buy it, I am sure your local library has a copy. Why don't you read it and find out?

And then, of course, is the obligatory "NAMBLA-mention." Like I said in a recent Letter to the Editor: "Raising the specter of the North American Man-Boy Love Association is always a good reactionary trick when one wishes to appeal to ignorance. Not only has NAMBLA never represented the mores of the gay community, but they appear to have imploded more than two years ago and haven't been seen or heard from since."

Uh, no. NAMBLA still very much exists, as evidenced by the return of their website (now carried by a German server) and a $100 million lawsuit filed by the parents of a Massachusetts boy who was abducted, murdered and raped (in that order) by a pair of NAMBLA members (Curley v. NAMBLA).

As for the assertion, "Not only has NAMBLA never represented the mores of the gay community," perhaps you can explain the quotes in favor of pedophilia from such homosexual leaders as Larry Kramer and Pat Califa that are found at their website, as well as their presence at the "Homosexual Rights Rally" in March, 1993 in Washington, DC.