Bill Andriette is an American
journalist
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Roles
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and
pro-pedophile activist.
Biography
Andriette was the Art-Director for the
LGBT
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periodical ''Baltimore Outloud'',
and was previously the Features Editor of ''The Guide'', a gay travel and entertainment magazine published in
Boston
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. As of 1996, he was the spokesman of the
North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).
In an interview in ''
The Boston Phoenix
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'' 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
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, finding room for compromise with government and societal concerns. He expressed frustration that the
LGBT rights
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movement had ostracized NAMBLA, because he regarded the moral condemnation of
pedophiles
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as a "reactionary ideology which the gay movement has happily adopted to burnish its own particular identity category".
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.
He was interviewed by
Daniel Tsang on
KUCI
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radio on June 15, 1999.
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?"
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1965 births
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male journalists
Cornell University alumni
American gay writers
American LGBTQ journalists
American LGBTQ rights activists
Living people
Pedophile advocacy
Journalists from Boston
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American LGBTQ people