A dark chapter in the gay rights movement

[Something completely different]

In the 1980s, gay rights groups in Germany formed an alliance with pedophiles who advocated the legalization of sex with minors. It's a dark period few care to talk about now.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ...19119.html



This story actualy broke several months ago here and the press reported on it for a few days. But no discussion or inquiery into the matter ever took place. Which is unfortunate, because it will probably allow assholes like this forums redneck and other lame brains out there to make cheap shots.

[Minimalist]

Gays formed an alliance with the church?

No kidding.

[CapnAwesome]

I think I should put out a class on how to spot bullshit. That article is intended to make it sound like gay activists as a large group supported pedophiles in the 80s but the examples they give are of "While the now-defunct leftist alternative magazine "Pflasterstrand," " and of a few random quotes from people that hardly sounded significant. Then the ominious claim that they are now 'silent' on the subject, as though that somehow implies guilt. Someone not talking about something in no way means that they are hiding something. Why should they talk about it when chances are 95% of gay rights advocates have nothing to do with it.