Bill Andriette | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Bill Andriette is an American journalist and pro-pedophile activist. [1]
Bill Andriette | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Bill Andriette is an American journalist and pro-pedophile activist. [1]
Andriette was the Art-Director for the LGBT periodical Baltimore Outloud, [2] and was previously the Features Editor of The Guide, a gay travel and entertainment magazine published in Boston. [3] As of 1996, he was the spokesman of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). [1]
In an interview in The Boston Phoenix in 1996, Andriette said, "I realized I was gay when I was 12". He joined NAMBLA when he was 15 years old, and by the age of 17 he was a member of the Steering Committee. For six years he was the editor of the NAMBLA Bulletin. He expressed differences with some earlier NAMBLA directors' views regarding legalization of what is now considered to be statutory rape, finding room for compromise with government and societal concerns. He expressed frustration that the LGBT rights movement had ostracized NAMBLA, because he regarded the moral condemnation of pedophiles as a "reactionary ideology which the gay movement has happily adopted to burnish its own particular identity category". [1]
During the 1993 International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) controversy, he defended NAMBLA's membership in ILGA, and to a greater extent NAMBLA's place in the gay rights movement, by claiming that "'the main tradition' of homosexuality" is consistent with supporting the abolition of laws prohibiting statutory rape. [4]
He appeared in the 1994 documentary about NAMBLA, Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys , in which he described how his work with NAMBLA provided an outlet for his sexual attraction to prepubescent young boys below the age of consent.
In 2008, he was a runner up for a Sex Positive Journalism Award (Sexies) for an article which appeared in The Guide: "Tipping-Point for Gay Sex?" [5]
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