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Group Caught Giving Kids Graphic Homosexual Booklet 5/20/2005 Officials, groups in Massachusetts apologize, but questions remain. The distribution of a homosexual how-to booklet to teens as young as middle-school age at a Massachusetts conference sponsored by a homosexual teachers group has public officials scrambling.
The Little Black Book – Queer in the 21st Century, a 32-plus page booklet featuring obscene language, graphic descriptions of dangerous sex acts and full frontal photos of male nudity, ends with two pages of listings of gay bars in Boston “for the discerning queerboy.”
The booklets, handed out at the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network’s (GLSEN’s) annual conference held at Brookline High School on April 30, were obtained by the Article 8 Alliance, a group that is seeking to unseat the four Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices who ordered the issuing of marriage licenses to one-sex-only couples beginning on May 17, 2004. Brian Camenker, founder of Article 8, told Concerned Women for America (CWA) that his group sent several people to the conference, and that “this is the tip of the iceberg. We collected bags full of stuff that they were handing out.”
Authored by the Boston-based AIDS Action Committee, the booklet says, “Special thanks and all sorts of love go out to the:
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
CWA called the office of Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) to inquire about what he will do about this, but had not gotten a return call as of publication time.
After Article 8 held a press conference to show “what a year of ‘gay marriage’ has done to Massachusetts,” and presented the booklet, Romney’s office immediately issued this statement, which says, in part:
Given that state funds typically go to the organizations that are listed in the booklet, CWA will make further inquiries to the governor’s office.
Brookline Police Department spokesman Capt. John O’Leary told CWA on Thursday that he had not heard about the booklet and that no one had yet filed a complaint. He listened to a description of the contents, and agreed that it was worth looking into. CWA provided him with the Article 8 Web address.
GLSEN, a national group that promotes homosexuality in schools, was caught in the Massachusetts scandal of “Fistgate” in 2000, when health educators gave teens explicit, graphic descriptions of certain sexual acts at a conference at Tufts University. A parent, Scott Whiteman, taped the incident, and MassNews.com gave extensive coverage.
GLSEN at first denied that The Little Black Book was distributed at the April 30 conference, and said the Article 8 Alliance was lying. After a grandmother who attended the conference recorded an affidavit about it, GLSEN admitted that the materials had been available.
On Wednesday, Brookline School Superintendent William H. Lupini issued a statement, which reads in part:
We were very pleased to be able to host this GLSEN event. However, I am very concerned that the conversation about this conference not focus on this document but, instead, remain on the positive nature of the experience, which was very well received by our attending students. Fenway Community Health, which distributed the booklet, also issued an apology on Wednesday, which states in part:
Fenway Community Health expressed regret for accidentally making available HIV- prevention materials designed for people over 18 years of age at an April 30 conference attended by middle-school and high school-age students, educators, public health workers, college students and others.
“Fenway Community Health regrets accidentally making available a small number of copies of The Little Black Book, an HIV-prevention publication for gay and bisexual men over the age of 18, at an event where young people were present," said Dr. Stephen Boswell, Fenway Community Health's President & CEO. For the full statements, go to http://stephenbennett.blogspot.com.
“They say it’s bad for kids, but it’s terrible for anyone,” Dr. Warren Throckmorton, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Counseling Services at Grove City College, told CWA. “It’s terrible advice for anyone of any age.”
Among other things, the booklet advises on “safe” sex practices with human waste.
According to Dr. Throckmorton, “Another problem is the contention of the booklet's author that The Little Black Book is ‘a very effective public health tool for preventing HIV and AIDS’ for people over 18. Well, I don't know how convincing that is when Stephen Boswell, CEO of Fenway Community Health (the group that brought The Little Black Book to the conference) said this about HIV/AIDS in Massachusetts: ‘HIV infections among young people are on the rise in Massachusetts, increasing nearly 40 percent between 1999 and 2002 and one-third of HIV infections in the state are among gay and bisexual men.’”
Since the material is so offensive, CWA is not posting the booklet, but it can be viewed at Article 8 Alliance Web site. Extreme caution is recommended, and it should not be viewed by anyone under 18 years of age.
Also in Massachusetts, Boston City Hall will be the site of a “Prom” on Saturday sponsored by the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, bisexual and Transgendered Youth (BAGLY). The event, to be held at the publicly funded city complex in the Government Center, has been advertised this way on the BAGLY Web site: “What is it like inside? It's like a huge queer club.”
Ex-‘Gay’ Denounces Materials
"I have never been more shocked in my life,” Bennett, who periodically has represented CWA at events and in the media, said.
Bennett is executive director of SBM, a nonprofit pro-family organization that “educates America of the truths and dangers of the militant, extremist homosexual agenda. SBM also ministers to those individuals and families affected by homosexuality -- providing a way out through Jesus Christ.
“Bennett lived as a ‘gay’ man for 11 years, with well over 100 sexual partners. Today, he is happily married to his wife, Irene, of 12 years and the father of their two children.
"These adults responsible for polluting these young children's minds need to be arrested and thrown in jail for what they have done – including the faculty, staff and ALL state officials involved,” Bennett writes. “This is just the beginning of the attack on America's children by militant homosexual activists. This is no less than indoctrination.”
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