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   From: fuck.joe.biden@dns-netz.com   
      
   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   
      
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