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Why not make a movie about Bayard Rustin instead?


On a post that pointed out Ginsberg wasn't a real gay man, since he was part of the pedophile group NAMBLA, I had this to say:

For anyone, gay, straight, or bi, etc., being with a teenager under eighteen is wrong, because today they are viewed as children and also fetishizing people, even if it was an eighteen or nineteen year old, isn't healthy. It's better to be in love in a monogamous relationship with another adult out of love and not a fantasy.

Other people on here are saying he said that kids who were twelve and thirteen were the right age to have sex with.

I'm white and I've been aware of white privilege since I was kid, but stuff like this makes me realize how bad it is. Men like Ginsberg and Walt Whitman are constantly remembered as people who were gay, but Ginsberg was part of a pedophile group and Walt Whitman may have had sex with boys who were not considered old enough at the time and he didn't want black people to vote.

However, real gay men are not pedophiles, but these are the men people choose to teach about and remember, but what about decent gay men like Bayard Rustin? There was a large age gap between him and his partner, Walter Naegle, but they were both men. I guess there aren't enough days in February to learn about a decent gay man, but it shouldn't only be limited to February anyway.

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The producers do not want to tell stories about decent people. They make movies based on stories that they believe will appeal to people.

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I really appreciate your post. I usually think the white privileged thing is BS, but your post made me think and I'm going to look up the man you referred to since I don't know him.

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