GLSEN gives gay sex how-to handout to children

Meanwhile, in Massachussets, the one-year anniversary of gay marriage was marked by a truly remarkable incident involving the GAY, LESBIAN, STRAIGHT EDUCATION NETWORK (GLSEN).

Remember that name: GLSEN. They boast that they have founded 2,500 Gay-Straight alliances in high schools around the country in the last ten years. The founding member of GLSEN's DC chapter is one of the women who helped design the Montgomery County sex ed curriculum that was struck down by a federal judge on May 5.

Well, in Brookline, Mass., on April 30, GLSEN hosted a day-long conference for jr. high and high school students and educators. The conference was, I believe, GLSEN's 15th Annual national conference. It was called, "Challenging Intolerance--Sustaining Hope."

At the conference, a table hosted by the "Fenway Community Health Center" passed out pamphlet produced by the AIDS Action Committee, called the "Little Black Book."

Click here to read an account and see pictures of what was in the pamphlet. You should be warned that the material on this page is highly inappropriate for children, and describes perverted sexual acts in explicit detail. The pamphlet is clearly aimed at young boys, and it gives them detailed instructions on the safest way to perform various sexual acts with other men. It also gives an extensive list of the best gay bars and hangout spots. It tells them, "You have the right to enjoy sex without shame or stigma."

All of this is done in the pamphlet in the name of providing them accurate information to help them avoid disease and infection.

GLSEN, when contacted by the Boston Herald on May 17, denied that the pamphlet was passed out, saying the "recent allegations from the far right...are categorically untrue" and "simply lies."

After the Boston Herald went to press, GLSEN issued a correction on May 18, saying, "While we have worked tirelessly to reduce anti-LGBT [Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender] name-calling, bullying and harassment, we learned this morning from the Fenway Community Health Center that a small number of copies of the HIV prevention pamphlet were available on their vendor table."

GLSEN called this "a breach of protocol," and that the health center "has instituted additional training to ensure it never happens again."

They closed their statement with the following: "We are deeply sorry. We regret the fear it has resurrected."

Now, I got this statement off the Article 8 website, who is opposed to GLSEN, and could not find this statement anywhere on the GLSEN Boston site. But the Herald did write about the health center admitting that it had distributed the pamphlets.

This Boston chapter of GLSEN is the same chapter responsible in 2000 for "Fistgate," in which GLSEN hosted a seminor for teens called, "What They Didn’t Tell You About Queer Sex & Sexuality In Health Class: A Workshop For Youth Only, Ages 14-21." During that seminar, "the three homosexual presenters acting in their professional capacities coaxed about 20 children into talking openly and graphically about homosexual sex."

The students were taught that "Fisting [forcing one’s entire hand into another person’s rectum or vagina] often gets a bad rap....[It’s] an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with...[and] to put you into an exploratory mode."