https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=David_ThorstadDavid Thorstad - Revision history2026-04-30T21:06:48ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.3https://wiki.yesmap.net/wiki/index.php?title=David_Thorstad&diff=33979&oldid=prevPrue at 14:53, 25 March 20262026-03-25T14:53:17Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''David Thorstad''' (1941 – 2021) was an American gay activist, writer, political organizer, and editor from Northwest Minnesota. An outspoken socialist, gay liberation, and anti-war activist, he was most active from the late 1960s to early 1990s. Most controversially during his lifetime, he was a prominent member of the gay rights movement <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since the 1970s, </del>and a founding member of the North American Man-Boy Love Association ([[NAMBLA]])<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: </del>a group which advocated the abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws. He was also active in [[Communism|Socialist / Trotskyist]] politics for some years.<ref>We highly recommend the [https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/13/resources/7571 biography at Minnesota University library's] collection of Thorstad's papers.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''David Thorstad''' (1941 – 2021) was an American gay activist, writer, political organizer, and editor from Northwest Minnesota. An outspoken socialist, gay liberation, and anti-war activist, he was most active from the late 1960s to early 1990s. Most controversially during his lifetime, he was a prominent member of the gay rights movement and a founding member of the North American Man-Boy Love Association ([[NAMBLA]])<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>a group which advocated the abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws. He was also active in [[Communism|Socialist / Trotskyist]] politics for some years.<ref>We highly recommend the [https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/13/resources/7571 biography at Minnesota University library's] collection of Thorstad's papers.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''David Thorstad''' (1941 – 2021) was an American political activist <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and author who </del>was a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </del>a founding member of the North American Man-Boy Love Association ([[NAMBLA]])<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>a group which <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">advocates </del>the abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws. He was also active in [[Communism|Socialist / Trotskyist]] politics for some years.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''David Thorstad''' (1941 – 2021) was an American <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gay activist, writer, </ins>political <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">organizer, and editor from Northwest Minnesota. An outspoken socialist, gay liberation, and anti-war </ins>activist<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, he was most active from the late 1960s to early 1990s. Most controversially during his lifetime, he </ins>was a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s, and a founding member of the North American Man-Boy Love Association ([[NAMBLA]])<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: </ins>a group which <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">advocated </ins>the abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws. He was also active in [[Communism|Socialist / Trotskyist]] politics for some years.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref>We highly recommend the [https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/13/resources/7571 biography at Minnesota University library's] collection of Thorstad's papers.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:'</del>'"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">David Thorstad has been a resident of St. Paul</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Minnesota </del>since <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">approximately 1992</del>. Thorstad has <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">been a member </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NAMBLA since 1978, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">served as a member of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Steering Committee from some undetermined time until September 1996</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He is listed </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a member of the Bulletin Collective</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though he claims he </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had no role in producing" the publication. He did contribute letters </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">articles to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bulletin, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">one of his articles was also posted on NAMBLA's webpage</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1995, he was nominated to be an official NAMBLA spokesman</del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">David Thorstad</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s involvement with NAMBLA led him to break with the increasingly "consenting adults in private only</ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gay rights movement</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which became increasingly hostile to NAMBLA's views and activities </ins>since <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the 1980's</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1998, </ins>Thorstad <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">told an audience: "Pederasty is the main form that male homosexuality </ins>has <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">acquired throughout Western civilization - and not only in the West! Pederasty is inseparable from the high points </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Western culture - ancient Greece </ins>and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Renaissance</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" Thorstad describes the modern gay rights movement </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"politically correct zombies</ins>," and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"radicalism of such groups as Queer Nation" as "bizarre </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">offensive</ins>."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">David Thorstad's involvement with NAMBLA led him to break with most of the mainstream gay rights movement, which has become increasingly hostile to NAMBLA's views and activities since about 1980. In 1998 Thorstad told an audience: "Pederasty is the main form that male homosexuality has acquired throughout Western civilization - and not only in the West! Pederasty is inseparable from the high points of Western culture - ancient Greece and the Renaissance." Thorstad describes the modern gay rights movement as "politically correct zombies," and the "radicalism of such groups as Queer Nation" as "bizarre and offensive."</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Summaries of Thorstad's views appear in his articles "Man/Boy Love and the American Gay Movement" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(1991), published </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a special issue of the [[Journal of Homosexuality]]<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjhm20/20/1-2 "Intergenerational Intimacy" (1991) special issue].</ref> (with guest editors [[Theo Sandfort]], [[Edward Brongersma]], and [[Alex Van Naerssen]]) - itself published as a book titled ''</ins>Male Intergenerational Intimacy: Historical, Socio-Psychological and Legal Perspectives<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>(Harrington Park Press, 1991) <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </ins>and "Homosexuality and the American Left: The Impact of Stonewall," in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>(<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>Gert Hekma<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>et al<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins>, editors, Harrington Park Press, 1995).</div></td></tr>
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