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AreWeSure ago

This smear of Kevin Jennings fell apart years ago.

Harry Hay is not associated with NAMBLA. Harry Hay formed a gay rights group in the late 40's.

They falsely accused Kevin Jennings of a bunch of stuff. Like the charge above they fell apart because they were false and he went on to serve in the Department of Education.

Psalm100 ago

Haven't brushed up on Kevin Jennings, but on Harry Hay:

"He nevertheless remained highly critical of the mainstream gay rights movement. Hay joined several other early gay rights activists in protesting the exclusion of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) from participation in LGBT social movements, most noticeably pride parades on the grounds that such exclusions pandered to heterosexual-dominated society.[102] When questioned on his support for NAMBLA in a 1983 New York University forum, he remarked "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", highlighting his own relationship with an adult man when he was 14.[175] At the 1986 Los Angeles Gay Pride Parade he courted controversy by carrying a banner with "NAMBLA Walks With Me" written on it, after organizers banned the group from joining the march; the organisers complained to police and he narrowly avoided arrest.[176]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay

AreWeSure ago

Thanks. So he supported them, but was not a member, but my "is not associated with" is too far.

Among the other things they said about Jennings was that he didn't report that an underage student told him he had sex with an older man. The student came forward and said he was above the age of consent and he never had sex with the man, he had a conversation with him and then told Jennings about it. Jennings appointment went forward.

Also, today I learned that Harry Hay had an affair with the actor who later played Grampa Walton.