PRIDE & Pedophilia - Queer Theory Founder: Gayle Rubin
Gayle Rubin Is The First In This Series Exposing The Founders of The Gay Rights Movement - The Hard Evidence Included
Gayle Rubin, author of the founding document of Queer Theory Thinking Sex, argued “Boy-lovers” were unduly stigmatized, like communists and homosexuals of the 1950s and lamented that it was so difficult to find "defenders of their civil liberties, let alone their erotic orientation". She also likened pedophilia and other sexual deviations to having a preference for spicy food.
The above statement was my level of knowledge when I began looking into Gayle. I was shocked to learn that her position is far more loathsome than I would have believed.
From Rubin's Wikipedia page, note that: "Her 1984 essay 'Thinking Sex' is widely regarded as a founding text of gay and lesbian studies, sexuality studies, and queer theory."
Supporting evidence that she's the founder of queer theory:
Now, let's take a look at "Thinking Sex". You can read the original essay here.
Let’s start from the lower half of Page 4 of the pdf:
"The laws produced by the child porn panic are ill-conceived and misdirected. They represent farreaching alterations in the regulation of sexual behaviour and abrogate important sexual civil liberties.
But hardly anyone noticed as they swept through Congress and state legislatures. With the exception of the North American Man/Boy Love Association and American Civil Liberties Union, no one raised a peep of protest."
"The experiences of art photographer Jacqueline Livingston exemplify the climate created by the child porn panic. An assistant professor of photography at Cornell University, Livingston was fired in 1978 after exhibiting pictures of male nudes which included photographs of her seven-year-old son masturbating."
Well, what could be the problem with that?! What's this world coming to when a mother can't take pictures of her grade one child masturbating? She goes on:
"Ms. Magazine, Chrysalis, and Art News all refused to run ads for Livingston’s posters of male nudes. At one point, Kodak confiscated some of her film, and for several months, Livingston lived with the threat of prosecution under the child pornography laws. The Tompkins Country Department of Social Services investigated her fitness as a parent. Livingston’s posters have been collected by the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, and other major museums. But she has paid a high cost in harassment and anxiety for her efforts to capture on film the uncensored male body at different ages (Stambolian, 1980, 1983)."
For emphasis, let's take a moment to look at the next sentence individually.
"It is easy to see someone like Livingston as a victim of the child porn wars."
It's easy to see Livingston as a victim, she says... Personally, I think it's hard to see a mother who takes nude photos of her 7 year old son masturbating as anything other than sick and a criminal. What about you?
So, by now you might be noticing that something ain't quite right with ol' Gayle. But she's not done. Let's continue:
"It is harder for most people to sympathize with actual boy-lovers. Like communists and homosexuals in the 1950s, boylovers are so stigmatized that it is difficult to find defenders for their civil liberties, let alone for their erotic orientation. Consequently, the police have feasted on them. Local police, the FBI, and watchdog postal inspectors have joined to build a huge apparatus whose sole aim is to wipe out the community of men who love underaged youth."
Just think about her choice of words, here. "men who love underaged youth", "erotic orientation", "police have feasted on them". It almost sounds like she's defending pedophilia... in the founding document of queer theory, that college students are apparently supposed to study. Surely she's not defending actual child molesters! Well, she continues:
"In twenty years or so, when some of the smoke has cleared, it will be much easier to show that these men have been the victims of a savage and undeserved witch hunt. A lot of people will be embarrassed by their collaboration with this persecution, but it will be too late to do much good for those men who have spent their lives in prison."
...What do I really need to say here, except to ask... what does she think is supposed to happen in "twenty years or so"? It's not like the LGBT community would band together and make a huge push to normalize indoctrinating children or something, right?
As for the “spicy food” comment noted at the beginning of this article, you can find that in the last few paragraphs of her essay.
I wouldn't recommend clicking the following link, because it's to NAMBLA's website, and I'm sure that just put me on some watchlist (either that or a fast track to politics or Hollywood). Nevertheless, here's another quote by Gayle, featured on Nambla's website:
"Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it, and with whom they choose. The statutory structure of the sex laws has been identified as oppressive and insulting to young people. A range of sexual activities are legally defined as molestation, regardless of the quality of the relationship or the amount of consent involved. ...
The recent career of boy-love in the public mind should serve as an alert that the self-interests of the feminist and gay movements are linked to simple justice for stigmatized sexual minorities. ... We must not reject all sexual contact between adults and young people as inherently oppressive."
~ Gayle Rubin, lesbian feminist, in Leaping Lesbian, February, 1978.
https://www.nambla.org/rubin.html
NAMBLA also recommends we:
"See Gayle Rubin's brilliant article, "Sexual Politics, the New Right, and the Sexual Fringe" in The Age Taboo, Alyson, 1981, pp. 108-115. This originally appeared in Leaping Lesbian, 2/2 (February, 1978), P. O. Box 7715, Ann Arbor, MI 48107."
Of course, it's those damn conservatives mucking everything up for those poor pedophiles...
"While the misery of boy-lovers affects very few, the other long-term legacy of the Dade County repeal affects almost everyone. The success of the anti-gay campaign ignited long-simmering passions of the American right, and sparked an extensive movement to compress the boundaries of acceptable sexual behaviour.
Right-wing ideology linking non-familial sex with communism and political weakness is nothing new. During the McCarthy period, Alfred Kinsey and his Institute for Sex Research were attacked for weakening the moral fibre of Americans and rendering them more vulnerable to communist influence.
After congressional investigations and bad publicity, Kinsey’s Rockefeller grant was terminated in 1954 (Gebhard, 1976)."
We'll get to Kinsey, but I hope it's pretty clear that the founder of Queer Theory is a pedo apologist, if not an outright advocate. People actually study this! Where's the outrage!?
Here is an interesting read about Gayle by The American Conservative. I had to use the wayback machine to revive some of the screenshots, but the author makes some good points. Check it out here.
I feel it is important to make a short statement, while I continue this series:
I would like to point out that I don't include all Gay, Lesbian, (who cares about bisexuals, let's be honest), or transgender people when I talk about the lgbtp community.
I see the "LGBT" community as a radical left-wing interest group (an interest group is a segment of a population that lobbies or rallies for changes to public policy and funding).
A lot of organizations and individuals who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender see through this. I have no doubt they take the brunt of vitriol against them, because they are apostates... heretics... I have a deep and profound respect for those people.
Try to remember that while there are differences between groups, there are also differences within groups.
I hope I have satisfied my goal of proving that Gayle Rubin, the founder of Queer Theory is a pedophile apologist, if not outright advocate. Leave a comment about what your opinion on this piece is and I will respond.
We have several more Queer Theory and Gay Rights founders to get through, and each of them are disturbing.
Stay tuned,
Orry