Bill Andriette | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 59–60) |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Bill Andriette is an Americanjournalist andpro-pedophile activist.[1]
Andriette was the Art-Director for theLGBT periodicalBaltimore Outloud,[2] and was previously the Features Editor ofThe Guide, a gay travel and entertainment magazine published inBoston.[3] As of 1996, he was the spokesman of theNorth American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA).[1]
In an interview inThe 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 theNAMBLA Bulletin. He expressed differences with some earlier NAMBLA directors' views regarding legalization of what is now considered to bestatutory rape, finding room for compromise with government and societal concerns. He expressed frustration that theLGBT rights movement had ostracized NAMBLA, because he regarded the moral condemnation ofpedophiles as a "reactionary ideology which the gay movement has happily adopted to burnish its own particular identity category".[1]
During the 1993International 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 was interviewed byDaniel Tsang onKUCI radio on June 15, 1999.[5]
In 2008, he was a runner up for a Sex Positive Journalism Award (Sexies) for an article which appeared inThe Guide: "Tipping-Point for Gay Sex?"[6]
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