6/25/19 thread about ACT UP, Aner Candelario, and NAMBLA

Here is the link to my June 25, 2019, Twitter thread discussion about the ACT UP Oral History Project interview with Aner Candelario.

I found, and still find, this interview very important, because Candelario talks about boys in ACT UP who were lovers with men. A lot of these boys were part of the North American Man Boy Love Association. They were boys who were lovers with men and were fighting for their love to be decriminalized.

People have really suppressed this aspect of the gay rights movement, especially since the huge push for sexual conservatism (partly via welfare reform and neoliberalism) in the early 1990s.