Bill Andriette on Wikipedia

Bill Andriette is an American journalist, gay rights activist, and pedophilia activist. Andriette is the Art Director for the LGBT periodical Baltimore Outloud, and was previously the Features Editor of The Guide, a gay travel and entertainment magazine published in Boston. He is the spokesman of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). In an interview in The 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 the NAMBLA Bulletin.

Andriette differs with NAMBLA policy regarding legalization of what is now considered to be statutory rape, and finds room for compromise with government and societal concerns. During the 1993 International Lesbian and Gay Association controversy (ILGA), 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 being LGBT is consistent with supporting the abolition of laws prohibiting statutory rape.

Andriette is frustrated that the LGBT rights movement has ostracised NAMBLA, because he regards the moral condemnation of pedophiles as a "reactionary ideology which the gay movement has happily adopted to burnish its own particular identity category." He appeared in the 1994 documentary about NAMBLA, Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys. He described how his work with NAMBLA provided an outlet for his homosexual pedophilia.

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?"

source: Wikipedia article 'Bill Andriette'; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Andriette; Taken from website: 26 May 2011