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3/22/2002 Penn State Event Includes Pro-NAMBLA Writer C&F REPORT EXCLUSIVE NAMBLA is the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a New York-based group that advocates legalizing sex between men and young boys. The “Conference on Women’s Health and Wellness,” held March 22-24 on the State College campus, features Califia as a keynote speaker (as well as advocates of transsexuality, lesbianism and abortion). Under the former name Pat Califia, she was a female homosexual sex radical and writer who recently underwent transsexual surgery in her quest to identify as a man. Bill Mahon, a spokesman for Penn State, said the administration did not know about Califia Rice’s background and her defense of NAMBLA, and “deeply regretted” the decision by student groups to invite her. “Penn State certainly repudiates any endorsement of pedophilia,” Mahon said. The Web site of the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) includes a quotation from Califia, attributed to an interview she gave in October1980 with the homosexual magazine The Advocate: Boy-lovers and the lesbians who have young lovers are the only people offering a hand to help young women and men cross the difficult terrain between straight society and the gay community. They are not child molesters. The child abusers are priests, teachers, therapists, cops and parents who force their stale morality onto the young people in their custody. Instead of condemning pedophiles for their involvement with lesbian and gay youth, we should be supporting them. One of Califia Rice’s books is Macho Sluts (published by Allyson Publications), a collection of sadomasochistic erotic fictional short stories. One story, one titled “Finishing School,” is about a lesbian mother who submits her 13-year-old daughter to sadistic homosexual torture. In the story, the mother whips the daughter until she bleeds. EDUCATIONAL VALUE? “This is the liberalism run amok agenda of Penn State President Graham Spanier,” Morella told C&F Report, noting that the university has sponsored similar “hedonistic” events such as two vulgar “sex faires” under Spanier’s helm. “When I look at whole menu of this ‘women’s health’ conference, I see no educational value in it at all, unless the leadership of PSU sees some value in teaching the female student body how to become lesbians,” said Morella, a member of the Penn State research faculty doing work in underwater acoustics. “It’s sort of an anything-goes kind of mentality, but colleges are supposed to be in business of discovering truth.” PRAISE OF ‘BOY LOVERS’BR>Califia Rice is a prolific writer whose books range from collections of “homoerotic” and pornographic poems and short stories glorifying assorted perversions to left-wing political essays against leaders of the homosexual movement who, she says, have abandoned the anything-goes spirit of “gay liberation.” In Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex (Cleis Press: 1994), she writes: The fact that many of the founders of the gay-liberation movement were (and are) boy-lovers has well-nigh disappeared from the official history of our rebellion. The very term “boy-lover” is rarely heard in gay discourse. True, there have always been political disagreements within our community about the age of consent and cross-generational relationships. But the decade of FBI harassment suffered by [NAMBLA] probably has more to do with the mainstream gay movement’s drawing away from this issue. It is a serious and terrifying thing to confront such a powerful institution. So perhaps it was inevitable that the Stonewall 25 organizing committee [formed to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the “Stonewall Inn” riots in New York City, viewed by homosexual activists as spawning the modern “gay rights” movement] would vote to exclude all organizations advocating the repeal of age-of-consent laws from its June 26, 1994, march. A group called the Spirit of Stonewall (SOS) formed to protest this ban, and has invited NAMBLA to march with them. I was proud to be among the people who signed SOS’s petition for inclusion of all gay organizations in the Stonewall anniversary celebration. Among other works written or edited by Califia Rice are: SEX CHANGES: The Politics of Transgenderism; Doing It for Daddy: Short and Sexy Fiction about a Very Forbidden Fantasy; and Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality. TRANSGENDERISM, MENSTRUATION, ABORTION The “Conference on Women’s Health and Wellness” is sponsored by Womyn’s [sic] Concerns and The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, according to a Web site for the event. Other co-sponsors include: The Women’s Studies Graduate Organization, Iota Iota Iota (or Triota: see below), Penn State American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Undergraduate Student Government Women’s Affairs, Students for Accountability and Reform (STAR), Lambda Delta Omega (a homosexual sorority), Men Stopping Rape, and Lambda Student Alliance, a homosexual group. Triota describes itself online as follows: “Iota Iota Iota is an academic honor society in women’s studies. Its purpose is to encourage and support scholarship and excellence in women’s studies. Triota members strive to maintain the feminist values central to women’s studies: egalitarianism, inclusiveness, and the celebration of the diversity of women’s experience. Triota’s mission is one of service to other women students [emphasis theirs].” In an interview, Mahon of Penn State said the groups sponsoring “Women’s Health and Wellness” were likely funded by a “student activity fee” that all students must pay. He said after learning of the Califia Rice presentation from C&F Report, the administration contacted organizers of the conference and instructed them to take steps to keep minors from attending, according to new university rules enacted last year. Mahon said attendees will be required to either have a Penn State I.D. card or prove they are 18 years old. He said the keynote speech by Califia Rice would be allowed to go forward, but said he “deeply regrets” that she was invited to speak. |
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