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By Jeffrey Lord on 10.5.06 @ 12:08AM

The Pride Parade.

That's what it's called in San Francisco when the community
gathers for a parade during the annual San Francisco Lesbian Gay
Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration. It is, by all accounts,
a wingding of a celebration, too. As the San Francisco
Chronicle, the media sponsor of the Pride Parade, put it in
their special section devoted to the celebration in 2001, the
parade is "the granddaddy, grandma and grandtrannie of 'em all."
(That would be trannie as in "transvestite.")

The paper, bursting with civic pride, was also pleased to
publish the marching order of the parade and all its celebrants.
It's quite a list. A who's who of San Francisco. Then Supervisor
and now Democratic mayor Gavin Newsom, members of two Democratic
Clubs, California Democratic legislators, the police, sheriff
and fire departments and even the director of the Golden Gate
Bridge were marching right alongside celebrants from Vulva
University, The Stud Bar, and Leather Pride.

It is, in short, the San Francisco political establishment
whooping it up with its constituents.

What interests in all of this in light of the unfolding scandal
involving Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley and his mind-
boggling e-mails to a young House page are the participants in
spots number 31 and 34 of the Pride Parade.

Celebrant number 31 was the late Harry Hay. Harry, it seems, was
quite the guy. In fact, it is not too much to say that he was
famous in San Francisco. He was famous not only as a founder of
the gay rights movement, for his one-time relationship with
actor Will Geer (who played Grandpa Walton on The Waltons TV
series,) he was also known for being featured in the 1976
documentary film of gay life titled Word Is Out. When he died
the following year after the parade, at 90, the New York Times
Magazine featured him in "The Lives They Lived," its annual
pictorial salute to famous Americans who had passed away during
the preceding year. In addition to laudatory obits in both the
New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the Chronicle did a
considerably flattering obituary. "Harry Hay, gay rights
pioneer, dies at 90." The paper favorably notes a number of
things in Harry's life, including his left-leaning politics, his
connection with the Communist Party in the 1930s and his
founding of "The Mattachine Society," a group the Chronicle
calls "the first sustained homosexual rights organization in the
United States."

Fair enough. The Chronicle, however, left something else out of
the obituary entirely. It was a very strong belief held by Harry
Hay that, if one is to believe all the attention devoted to
Harry on the Internet, was common knowledge in San Francisco.

Harry Hay was a fierce advocate of man/boy love. While The
Chronicle simply ignored Harry's views, the North American
Man/Boy Love Association was only too delighted to put up a
collection of Harry's views on the need for young boys to have
older men as sexual partners. Here's just a sample taken from a
talk at a New York University forum sponsored by a campus gay
group in 1983.

Said Harry: "Because if the parents and friends of gays are
truly friends of gays, they would know from their gay kids that
the relationship with an older man is precisely what thirteen-,
fourteen-, and fifteen-year-old kids need more than anything
else in the world."

In short, San Francisco's beloved Harry Hay was a vigorous and
well-known advocate of older men having sex with young boys. He
was a fearless and quite famous advocate for Congressman Mark
Foley's behavior.

Which makes one curious about the presence of marcher number 34
in the 2001 Pride Parade. Marching a mere three spots away from
the famous Harry Hay, no doubt waving and smiling to the crowd,
was, as the Chronicle logged her in the Official Guide and
Program Parade Lineup: "U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi."

That would be now Democratic leader of the U.S. Congress and the
candidate of the Democratic Party to be the next Speaker of the
House of Representatives, the official third in line to be
President of the United States.

Surely this is a different Rep. Nancy Pelosi from the one who
currently has on her website as Minority Leader the following
statement:

"Republican leaders admitted to knowing about Mr. Foley's
abhorrent behavior for six months to a year and failed to
protect the children in their trust. Republican Leaders must be
investigated by the Ethics Committee and immediately questioned
under oath."

Abhorrent behavior? If men having sex with children is
"abhorrent behavior" then it seems it would be quite logical for
a United States Congresswoman to stand up and protest the
presence of one of its leading advocates having a place of honor
in a civic parade -- a parade in which she herself would be
marching mere steps behind him.

If Representative Pelosi took the time to condemn Harry Hay's
presence in the Pride Parade, there is no evidence that I can
find. Nor did she refuse to march in the parade as a protest of
Mr. Hay. Nor did she issue a statement warning parents that they
were bringing their kids to a parade where Mr. Hay was one of
the featured attractions.

What Representative Pelosi chose to do instead -- as did much of
civic San Francisco -- is blithely give a wink-and-a-nod to ole
Harry and his interest in little boys.

Not only does a moment like this unintentionally reveal the
mindset of what Representative Pelosi and her fellow Democrats
may really think but can't -- yet -- support. (This is, after
all, the city where now-Mayor Newsom took it upon himself to
break new cultural ground by authorizing the performance of same-
sex marriages -- in violation of California law.) It also raises
the question of whether the acceptance of Harry Hay and his
views is a snapshot of a larger, unspoken agenda that San
Francisco Democrats want the national Democratic Party to
eventually pursue when they return to a Congressional majority --
and the White House. After all, if Harry Hay's views were not
only celebrated in a parade in San Francisco but were not even
thought out-of-the-mainstream enough to draw the slightest
protest from Ms. Pelosi, why should there be protests over a
move to eventually change the laws about men having sex with
boys in Pennsylvania or Missouri or Virginia?

There's two words for that kind of agenda.

"Abhorrent behavior."

http://spectator.org/archives/2006/10/05/when-nancy-met-harry

TAGS: Nancy Pelosi, Law, NAMBLA, Homosexual, Pedophile,
Paedophile, Congress, House, Democrat, San Francisco, HIV, AIDS,
Rape, Baltimore

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