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	__NOTOC__{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[[wikipedia:Fag_Rag\|Fag Rag]] collective'', and founding member of the ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF)<ref>A little-known organization, according to ''The Guide'' (November 1987, Fidelity Publishing, Edward T. Hougen et al.): The ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF) was founded by around 30 men and women in Boston, MA, in the summer of 1987, "to help protect the legal rights of the "victims" and the accused in cases alleging non-coercive sexual activity between gay people and teenagers. Two members of openly gay Boston City Councillor David Scondra's staff [Gary Dotterman and French Wall] were on the CCLSF. One of the cases adopted by the CCLSF involved Donald Dobson and two teenagers from Puerto Rico. The CCLSF decided to focus on the rights of the teenagers in this case. The case recieved considerable attention in the gay press throughout the summer." (p. 12). Named members of the CCLSF we are aware of, other than Tom Reeves, include: Margaret Hougen, Rev. Bob Wheatly, Gary Dotterman and French Wall.</ref> and ~~the~~ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLBTQ_Legal_Advocates_%26_Defenders ''Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders''] (GLAD) as one of many Boston Boise members who sat on ~~its~~ first Board~~.<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations~~. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> He became particularly known for being a co-founder, alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]): a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>		__NOTOC__{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[[wikipedia:Fag_Rag\|Fag Rag]] collective'', and founding member of the ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF)<ref>A little-known organization, according to ''The Guide'' (November 1987, Fidelity Publishing, Edward T. Hougen et al.): The ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF) was founded by around 30 men and women in Boston, MA, in the summer of 1987, "to help protect the legal rights of the "victims" and the accused in cases alleging non-coercive sexual activity between gay people and teenagers. Two members of openly gay Boston City Councillor David Scondra's staff [Gary Dotterman and French Wall] were on the CCLSF. One of the cases adopted by the CCLSF involved Donald Dobson and two teenagers from Puerto Rico. The CCLSF decided to focus on the rights of the teenagers in this case. The case recieved considerable attention in the gay press throughout the summer." (p. 12). Named members of the CCLSF we are aware of, other than Tom Reeves, include: Margaret Hougen, Rev. Bob Wheatly, Gary Dotterman and French Wall.</ref> and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLBTQ_Legal_Advocates_%26_Defenders ''Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders''] (GLAD).<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations, and was one of many Boston Boise members who sat on GLAD's first Board. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> He became particularly known for being a co-founder, alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]): a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>

	From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.		From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.

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	__NOTOC__{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[[wikipedia:Fag_Rag\|Fag Rag]] collective'', and founding member of the ~~little-known~~ ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF)<ref>~~According~~ to ''The Guide'' (November 1987, Fidelity Publishing, Edward T. Hougen et al.): The ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF) was founded by around 30 men and women in Boston, MA, in the summer of 1987, "to help protect the legal rights of the "victims" and the accused in cases alleging non-coercive sexual activity between gay people and teenagers. Two members of openly gay Boston City Councillor David Scondra's staff [Gary Dotterman and French Wall] were on the CCLSF. One of the cases adopted by the CCLSF involved Donald Dobson and two teenagers from Puerto Rico. The CCLSF decided to focus on the rights of the teenagers in this case. The case recieved considerable attention in the gay press throughout the summer." (p. 12). Named members of the CCLSF we are aware of, other than Tom Reeves, include: Margaret Hougen, Rev. Bob Wheatly, Gary Dotterman and French Wall.</ref> and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLBTQ_Legal_Advocates_%26_Defenders ''Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders''] (GLAD) as one of many Boston Boise members who sat on its first Board.<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> He became particularly known for being a co-founder, alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]): a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>		__NOTOC__{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[[wikipedia:Fag_Rag\|Fag Rag]] collective'', and founding member of the ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF)<ref>A little-known organization, according to ''The Guide'' (November 1987, Fidelity Publishing, Edward T. Hougen et al.): The ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF) was founded by around 30 men and women in Boston, MA, in the summer of 1987, "to help protect the legal rights of the "victims" and the accused in cases alleging non-coercive sexual activity between gay people and teenagers. Two members of openly gay Boston City Councillor David Scondra's staff [Gary Dotterman and French Wall] were on the CCLSF. One of the cases adopted by the CCLSF involved Donald Dobson and two teenagers from Puerto Rico. The CCLSF decided to focus on the rights of the teenagers in this case. The case recieved considerable attention in the gay press throughout the summer." (p. 12). Named members of the CCLSF we are aware of, other than Tom Reeves, include: Margaret Hougen, Rev. Bob Wheatly, Gary Dotterman and French Wall.</ref> and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLBTQ_Legal_Advocates_%26_Defenders ''Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders''] (GLAD) as one of many Boston Boise members who sat on its first Board.<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> He became particularly known for being a co-founder, alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]): a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>

	From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.		From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.

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	__NOTOC__{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[[wikipedia:Fag_Rag\|Fag Rag]] collective'',<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> ~~and~~ co-founder alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]), a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>		__NOTOC__{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[[wikipedia:Fag_Rag\|Fag Rag]] collective'', and founding member of the little-known ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF)<ref>According to ''The Guide'' (November 1987, Fidelity Publishing, Edward T. Hougen et al.): The ''Committee on Civil Liberties and Sexual Freedom'' (CCLSF) was founded by around 30 men and women in Boston, MA, in the summer of 1987, "to help protect the legal rights of the "victims" and the accused in cases alleging non-coercive sexual activity between gay people and teenagers. Two members of openly gay Boston City Councillor David Scondra's staff [Gary Dotterman and French Wall] were on the CCLSF. One of the cases adopted by the CCLSF involved Donald Dobson and two teenagers from Puerto Rico. The CCLSF decided to focus on the rights of the teenagers in this case. The case recieved considerable attention in the gay press throughout the summer." (p. 12). Named members of the CCLSF we are aware of, other than Tom Reeves, include: Margaret Hougen, Rev. Bob Wheatly, Gary Dotterman and French Wall.</ref> and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLBTQ_Legal_Advocates_%26_Defenders ''Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders''] (GLAD) as one of many Boston Boise members who sat on its first Board.<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> He became particularly known for being a co-founder, alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]): a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>

	From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.		From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.

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	*''[https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html An Extraordinary Life: A Few Pieces By, Or About, Tom Reeves; our Departed Founder]'' - NAMBLA Website.		*''[https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html An Extraordinary Life: A Few Pieces By, Or About, Tom Reeves; our Departed Founder]'' - NAMBLA Website.
	*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Tom_Reeves BoyWiki]		*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Tom_Reeves BoyWiki]
			*[[Rosa von Praunheim]], Interview with Reeves in ''Army of Lovers'' (1979). where he makes various important statements about his philosophy and personal life.<ref>E.g. "I think the gay movement has said that we do not recruit children and we are not interested in adolescents. Well, I am interested in recruiting teenagers. I am interested in recruiting every gay teenager who is out there. I want him to know he is gay. I want him to be proud of it as soon as possible, as early as possible, because of all the pain and suffering that kids go through that makes their lives fucked up from then on. I think a teenager can know and be aware of his sexuality when he is 13. And it is so much more easy for him, and his whole life fits better for him, than if he has to painfully struggle and find out when he is in his twenties. Also, I am very happy to say that I recruit people away from the middle-class, uptight, violent family, from creating more of those. And that does not mean that a boy would necessarily be exclusively homosexual, but that he simply would not want to reproduce exactly the robot kind of family he grew up and was unhappy in."</ref>

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	{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[~~https~~:~~//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/~~Fag_Rag Fag Rag] collective'',<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> and co-founder alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]), a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>		__NOTOC__{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[[wikipedia:Fag_Rag\|Fag Rag]] collective'',<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> and co-founder alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]), a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>

	From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.		From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.

			In the late 90s, he was a founding member of the [[RSO Activism\|RSO Activist]] organization now known as [[NARSOL]].

	==Biography==		==Biography==
			[[File:Tom Reeves - The Advocate - 23 Aug 1994 - 03.jpg\|thumb\|Tom Reeves talks to a Police Officer]]
	Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1939, Tom was ordained a Methodist minister and pastored a church in Blue Springs, Alabama, while attending Birmingham Southern College, from which he graduated in 1960. He went on to get a Master's of Divinity from Harvard in 1963 and an MA from American University in 1964. Tom did further postgraduate study (1964-66) at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and Humboldt University, both in Berlin.		Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1939, Tom was ordained a Methodist minister and pastored a church in Blue Springs, Alabama, while attending Birmingham Southern College, from which he graduated in 1960. He went on to get a Master's of Divinity from Harvard in 1963 and an MA from American University in 1964. Tom did further postgraduate study (1964-66) at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and Humboldt University, both in Berlin.

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	Tom's last years were spent in Montreal, Baltimore, and Spain, before dying of heart failure at age 72.		Tom's last years were spent in Montreal, Baltimore, and Spain, before dying of heart failure at age 72.

	==Further ~~Reading~~ and ~~External Links~~==		==Further reading, and external links==

	''[https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html An Extraordinary Life: A Few Pieces By, Or About, Tom Reeves; our Departed Founder]'' - NAMBLA Website.		''[https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html An Extraordinary Life: A Few Pieces By, Or About, Tom Reeves; our Departed Founder]'' - NAMBLA Website.
			*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Tom_Reeves BoyWiki]

	==See also==		==See also==

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	'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fag_Rag Fag Rag] collective'',<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> and co-founder alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]), a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>		{{Template:Ac}}'''Thomas Reeves''', known as '''Tom Reeves''' (Born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1939; Died in Baltimore on Sunday, February 19, 2012), was an [[Communism\|Anarchist]] Gay activist/organizer, author, professor, and a prominent member of the gay rights movement since the 1970s. Notably, he was a key member of the ''[[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]'', the ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fag_Rag Fag Rag] collective'',<ref>Reeves was involved in multiple gay organizations. In his own words: "I was involved with many new gay organizations: Gay Community News, Boston Area Gay & Lesbian Youth (BAGLY), Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), the Gay Liberation Front, and much later Act Up." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html Reeves, An Extraordinary Life. NAMBLA Website]. Reeves was a founder of the [[Boston-Boise_affair\|Boston/Boise Committee]]: "Garrett Byrne, Suffolk County district attorney, was running for reelection in 1977. He turned two series of arrests for public lewdness in Boston Public Library restrooms and for statutory rape at a house in Revere into an anti-gay crusade. Tom Reeves and his fellow Fag Rag members, ministers and congregants of the Metropolitan Community Church, and other gay leaders fought back, forming the Boston-Boise Committee." - [https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves.html Remembering Tom Reeves. NAMBLA Website].</ref> and co-founder alongside [[David Thorstad]] and others, of the ''North American Man-Boy Love Association'' ([[NAMBLA]]), a group which advocated reform and abolition of [[Age of Consent]] laws which they saw as prosecuting mutually willing gay sex (defined legally as [[statutory rape]]). Reeves became a prominent spokesperson for NAMBLA, the organization that "has been among the [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity\|most controversial groups in LGBT history]]."<ref>https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/north-american-manboy-love-association-nambla</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Gay histories and cultures: an encyclopedia]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160413072025/https://books.google.com/books?id=L9Mj7oHEwVoC&pg=PA628 Archived] April 13, 2016, at the Wayback Machine By George E. Haggerty p. 628.</ref>

	From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.		From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.

	== Biography ==		==Biography==

	Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1939, Tom was ordained a Methodist minister and pastored a church in Blue Springs, Alabama, while attending Birmingham Southern College, from which he graduated in 1960. He went on to get a Master's of Divinity from Harvard in 1963 and an MA from American University in 1964. Tom did further postgraduate study (1964-66) at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and Humboldt University, both in Berlin.		Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1939, Tom was ordained a Methodist minister and pastored a church in Blue Springs, Alabama, while attending Birmingham Southern College, from which he graduated in 1960. He went on to get a Master's of Divinity from Harvard in 1963 and an MA from American University in 1964. Tom did further postgraduate study (1964-66) at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and Humboldt University, both in Berlin.

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	From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.		From 1976 to 2001, Reeves taught at Boston's historically black Roxbury Community College, where he became a full professor of social sciences and director of the school's Caribbean Focus program. Tom had a particular interest in the plight of Haiti, writing and speaking frequently about the country and joining a number of delegations and humanitarian missions, for which he was honored by the Haitian government. At Tom's invitation, the then recently-overthrown Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide spoke at the college and received an honorary degree in April 1992.

	==Biography==		== Biography ==

	Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1939, Tom was ordained a Methodist minister and pastored a church in Blue Springs, Alabama, while attending Birmingham Southern College, from which he graduated in 1960. He went on to get a Master's of Divinity from Harvard in 1963 and an MA from American University in 1964. Tom did further postgraduate study (1964-66) at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and Humboldt University, both in Berlin.		Born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1939, Tom was ordained a Methodist minister and pastored a church in Blue Springs, Alabama, while attending Birmingham Southern College, from which he graduated in 1960. He went on to get a Master's of Divinity from Harvard in 1963 and an MA from American University in 1964. Tom did further postgraduate study (1964-66) at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science and Humboldt University, both in Berlin.

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	*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Tom_Reeves BoyWiki]		*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Tom_Reeves BoyWiki]
	*[[Rosa von Praunheim]], Interview with Reeves in ''Army of Lovers'' (1979). where he makes various important statements about his philosophy and personal life.<ref>E.g. "I think the gay movement has said that we do not recruit children and we are not interested in adolescents. Well, I am interested in recruiting teenagers. I am interested in recruiting every gay teenager who is out there. I want him to know he is gay. I want him to be proud of it as soon as possible, as early as possible, because of all the pain and suffering that kids go through that makes their lives fucked up from then on. I think a teenager can know and be aware of his sexuality when he is 13. And it is so much more easy for him, and his whole life fits better for him, than if he has to painfully struggle and find out when he is in his twenties. Also, I am very happy to say that I recruit people away from the middle-class, uptight, violent family, from creating more of those. And that does not mean that a boy would necessarily be exclusively homosexual, but that he simply would not want to reproduce exactly the robot kind of family he grew up and was unhappy in."</ref>		*[[Rosa von Praunheim]], Interview with Reeves in ''Army of Lovers'' (1979). where he makes various important statements about his philosophy and personal life.<ref>E.g. "I think the gay movement has said that we do not recruit children and we are not interested in adolescents. Well, I am interested in recruiting teenagers. I am interested in recruiting every gay teenager who is out there. I want him to know he is gay. I want him to be proud of it as soon as possible, as early as possible, because of all the pain and suffering that kids go through that makes their lives fucked up from then on. I think a teenager can know and be aware of his sexuality when he is 13. And it is so much more easy for him, and his whole life fits better for him, than if he has to painfully struggle and find out when he is in his twenties. Also, I am very happy to say that I recruit people away from the middle-class, uptight, violent family, from creating more of those. And that does not mean that a boy would necessarily be exclusively homosexual, but that he simply would not want to reproduce exactly the robot kind of family he grew up and was unhappy in."</ref>
			:*[https://fstube.net/w/pA1Y5PYJVDRDsM5ZvQr9nu Video of his contributions to that documentary, with added English audio]

	==See also==		==See also==

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	==Further reading, and external links==		==Further reading, and external links==

	''[https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html An Extraordinary Life: A Few Pieces By, Or About, Tom Reeves; our Departed Founder]'' - NAMBLA Website.		*''[https://www.nambla.org/tom_reeves_writings.html An Extraordinary Life: A Few Pieces By, Or About, Tom Reeves; our Departed Founder]'' - NAMBLA Website.
	*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Tom_Reeves BoyWiki]		*[https://www.boywiki.org/en/Tom_Reeves BoyWiki]