Donald Mader

Donald Mader

Rev. Donald H. Mader (1948-2022) was an American photographer, publisher and boylove activist, who worked as an assistant pastor. Mader was born in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, in the United States, and graduated magna cum laude from Michigan State University in 1970, having majored in history with minors in religion and art. In 1971, he began attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and received his M.Div. degree in 1975. In 1984, at San Francisco, he met Joseph Geraci and together decided to move to the Netherlands. Mader lived in the Netherlands as an expatriate from 1986 until his death.

Early Life

His career as a radical began at age 14, when he and two schoolmates wrote a letter to a suburban Detroit weekly newspaper regarding the murder of a Detroit woman doing civil rights work in the South; the editor of the paper turned the letter over to the FBI for investigation, and Mader and his schoolmates were called into the principal's office to be interrogated about their Communist sympathies.

When registering for military conscription in 1966, during the Vietnam War, he was the first person in the history of his local draft board to declare as a conscientious objector. At Michigan State University he was active in draft counseling, campaigns against ROTC and Dow Chemical's napalm production, and first wrote for and then in 1967-8 co-edited the campus underground newspaper, The Paper. During the summer of 1968, he was a technical advisor in creating the Mississippi Student News Project and their underground paper, Kudzu. In New York he was again involved in draft counseling, in the Angela Davis Support Committee, and in refusal of Federal taxes for military purposes. He wrote and spoke widely in the Reformed Church on urban issues, and wrote on pacifism and anti-militarism.

Activism

Mader has been involved in boylove related activism since the late 1970s. He participated in the first two conferences of NAMBLA and spoke out against threats to freedom of expression in evolving child pornography laws at the Arbeitsgemeinshaft Humane Sexualitataet (1993), the Arnhem Art Academy (1994), and the "Child Protectors And Their Clients" and "Treatment Of Sex Offenders (Legal Section)" intentional conferences (1995). Over the years, he has regularly contributed many scholarly articles in several boylove magazines like Pan: A Magazine about Boy-Love, NAMBLA Bulletin, Gayme and O.K.

Scholarly work

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Mader is the author of many scholarly articles in literature, art, photography and religion. His "The Entimos Pais of Matthew 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10" (1987) is one of the most original works of pederasty in the Bible. He also served at the editorial board of Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia (1987-1995) and since 1990 he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Homosexuality.

Publishing

In 1978, Mader edited a reprint of the American Uranian Poetry anthology Men and Boys (1924). He wrote an introduction for the volume discussing the author Edward Mark Slocum's life, which we have archived. He later founded his own publishing house in Amsterdam called Entimos Press. With Entimos Press Mader published books on photography, art and poetry including an influential translation of Abu Nuwas boylove poetry (by Hakim Bey). In 2000, Mader published a reprint of "the first homosexual novel", Alcibiades the Schoolboy (1652), by Antonio Rocco. The novel features age-gap homosexuality (pederasty), and Mader's afterword provides "an excellent introduction" to the novel and history of pederasty.

Photography

Apart from his scholarly articles, Mader is best known as a cotroversial photographer of naked boys. His photographic work was part of many exhibitions and has been published extensively. His photos of boys were subject to prosecutions many times, the first in 1987-1992, then in 1994 and again in 1995. He was acquitted by the Dutch courts in all these cases. In June 1998 at an exhibition of his work at the Museum of History in Stockholm, a group of neo-Nazis raided the exhibition and destroyed his photographs.

Pastoral work

Rev. Mader has spent two two years as student assistant at a black parish in Queens, New York, and for 13 years he was the pastor of a small parish in Brooklyn, New York. Following a year of clinical pastoral training at Bellevue Hospital, he was ordained to the ministry in the Reformed Church in America (R.C.A.) in 1976. As a student pastor and pastor, he served inner city parishes for the R.C.A. in New York City from 1971 to 1986. As President of Brooklyn Classis, in a case which led to the legalization of women clergy in the R.C.A. and to calls that he be charged with heresy, at the 1979 R.C.A. General Synod he spearheaded the successful defence of Brooklyn's ordination of a woman to the ministry.

After his relocation in the Netherlands, from 1992 he was associated with the controversial inner city ministry at the Pauluskerk (St. Paul's Church) in Rotterdam, first as a volunteer and then as an assistant pastor. There, he was responsible for English language work and assisting work with sexual minorities. In 2003, he was dismissed from the Reformed Church in America to the Remonstrantse Broederschap in The Netherlands. During the City Council elections in 2006, the Pauluskerk and its work was attacked in a book sponsored by a foundation supporting the neo-Nazi political movement left by Pim Fortuyn; one chapter dealt with Mader, labeling him a 'scientific child rapist', pairing him with Pastor Joseph Doucé (the Belgian homophile activist and clergyman murdered by the French Security Police, whose ministry had also been supported by the Pauluskerk), and predicting Mader would meet the same end.

Selected works

• Introduction. Men and Boys: An Anthology (Coltsfoot Press: New York, 1978). This longer, online version, written in 2012.
• "The Entimos Pais of Matthew 8:5-13 and Luke 7:1-10," Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia 1, no. 1 (1987): 27-39, reprinted in Homosexuality and Religion and Philosophy, ed. Wayne Dynes and Stephen Donaldson (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 223-235.
• "Pedophilia" in Encyclopedia of Homosexuality, ed. Wayne R. Dynes (New York: Garland, 1990), pp. 964-970 (with Joseph Geraci).
• "Exclusion, Toleration, Acceptance, Integration: the experience of Dutch Reformed Churches with homosexuality and homosexuals in the Church," Journal of Homosexuality 25, no. 4 (1993): 101-120.
• A man of many words (and some controversial pictures): a bibliography of the published writings and photographs of D.H. Mader (Amsterdam: Entimos Press, 1995), 28 pages.
• Rev. Hans Visser and Donald Mader (eds.). Misunderstood intimacy - A pastoral approach to pedophilia (Rotterdam: Stichting voor Kerkelijk Sociale Arbeid, 1999).
• Afterword, in Antonio Rocco, Alcibiades the Schoolboy (Amsterdam: Entimos Press, 2000 [originally, 1652]). (Recommended as an introduction to early modern books about pederasty).
• "Walter H. Breen (J. Z. Eglinton) (1928-1993)", in Before Stonewall: activists for gay and lesbian rights in historical context, ed. by Vern L. Bullough (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2002), pp. 312-322.
• "The Greek Mirror: the Uranians and their use of Greece," Journal of Homosexuality 49, nos. 3/4 (2005): 377-420, reprinted in Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West, ed. Beert C. Verstraete and Vernon L. Provencal (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2006).
• "The Individual Can . . ." Objectifying Consent', in Boyhood Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2010), 103-112.
• D.H. Mader and Gert Hekma, "Same Sex, Different Ages: On Pederasty in Gay History", in Censoring Sex Research: The Debate Over Male Intergenerational Relationships, ed. by Thomas K. Hubbard and Beert Verstraete (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013), pp. 161-193.
• Posthumously published autobiography (authored between 2006-2021).

See also

• Edward Brongersma
• Men and Boys: An Anthology (1924)
• Vern Bullough
• Gert Hekma
• Joseph Doucé
• William Percy
• David Thorstad
• Thomas O'Carroll
• John P. De Cecco
• Journal of Homosexuality
• Will McBride

External Links

• "D.H. Mader" (Original BoyWiki Article)