In two parts:
NAMBLA-Gate: The Case of Kevin Jennings
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | January 18, 2010
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/nambla...evin-jennings/
Harry Hay, who "inspired" Obama-appointed Education Department official Kevin Jennings to lead a life of homosexual activism, was not only a supporter of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) but a prominent member of the Communist Party USA and "Radical Faerie" who believed in the power of the occult.
As disclosed by Peter LaBarbera's Americans for Truth organization, Jennings said in 1997 that Hay should serve as an inspiration. "One of the people that's always inspired me is Harry Hay, who started the first ongoing gay rights group in America," Jennings said.
Jennings didn't mention that Hay actively campaigned for the "rights" of pedophiles and publicly supported NAMBLA. But Jennings had to be aware of this fact. Two popular books about Hay- Radically Gay, edited by Will Roscoe and published in 1996, and The Trouble With Harry Hay, written by Stuart Timmons and published in 1990- documented Hay's support for NAMBLA. These books were issued by pro-homosexual or left-wing book publishers and popular among "gay" activists like Jennings.
The Timmons book shows Hay wearing a "NAMBLA walks with me" sign at a "gay rights" demonstration. Although Hay apparently never formally joined the organization, he spoke about his support for NAMBLA on many different occasions, including at NAMBLA conferences.
He did join the Communist Party (CPUSA) and remained a Marxist until the day he died.
Jennings was announced as the Assistant Deputy Secretary, Office of Safe & Drug Free Schools, in the Department of Education on May 19. His official biography mentions his role in creating an organization, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which is supposed to provide factual information about the history of the "gay rights" movement to teachers and students. But the references to Hay in GLSEN literature fail to include anything about his CPUSA, pro-NAMBLA or Radical Faerie activities.
For example, a GLSEN "Education Department Resource" pamphlet from the year 2000 identifies the Timmons book as "a readable biography of the founder of the first ongoing American gay rights group." That means that somebody at GLSEN read the book, including its discussion of Hay's pro-NAMBLA activities. But nothing is said about Hay's objectionable record.
It is certainly interesting that the GLSEN description of the Hay book sounds like what Jennings had himself said about Hay.
More to the point, GLSEN recommends a book Jennings himself edited entitled, Becoming Visible: A Reader in Gay and Lesbian History for High School and College Students, which includes a favorable profile of Harry Hay by Timmons. Indeed, the material is from the Timmons book.
So the idea that Jennings was unfamiliar with Hay's pro-NAMBLA record is simply impossible to believe. It is the case that Hay supported the criminal sexual exploitation of children and the evidence indicates that Jennings knew about this but that his organization concealed the information from those who had a right to know about it.
Hay's support for NAMBLA grew out of his own sexual relationships as a child with adult predators. In his own twisted and bizarre world, Hay says he ultimately found the sexual abuse to be beneficial. By his own admission, he had a terrible relationship with his father, who beat him.
In the article, "Our Beloved Gay/Lesbian Movement at a Crossroads," Hay maintained that real child molestation involved the "sexual coercion of Gay and Lesbian youth into heterosexual identities and behaviors." Hay believed that homosexuals "should unite to sue the whole guilty hetero community for compensation" for practicing this "heterosexual coercion" on "Gay kids."
The praise of Hay by Jennings has led to questions about Jennings's relationship with NAMBLA itself. "We don't know if Mr. Jennings supports us or not," is all that a NAMBLA spokesman says. NAMBLA has a whole section of its website devoted to Hay.
LaBarbera contends that "It would seem fairly easy for Jennings to clarify his position on NAMBLA-all he has to do is issue a clear statement of his opposition to this evil 'man-boy love' organization."
But even if he were to condemn NAMBLA in strong terms, there is still the matter of why his organization, which targets young people, promotes a favorable book about a communist pervert.
Hannity On The Attack
Sean Hannity of Fox News, who has called for the firing of Obama Education Department official Kevin Jennings, interviewed a former FBI agent, Bob Hamer, who infiltrated the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and documented their criminal activities. Asked if Jennings had been unaware of Hay's pro-NAMBLA activities when he said that Hay had been an inspiration to him, Hamer replied that Jennings "knew the agenda of Harry Hay and he certainly supported Harry Hay and Harry Hay is a strong advocate of NAMBLA."
Hannity asked, "And so Jennings had to have known that?"
Hamer replied, "Well, certainly. Harry Hay didn't hide his support for NAMBLA."
After he turned to Marxism and embarked on a career of homosexual activism, Hay abandoned his wife, a fellow member of the CPUSA. He had been introduced to the Communist Party by actor Will Geer, who played Grandpa on "The Waltons" television show and was a communist himself.
Interestingly, the federally-funded National Endowment for the Arts and Corporation for Public Broadcasting put taxpayer dollars into a 2002 film, "Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay," which ignores Hay's support for NAMBLA and involvement in the occult but actually has some important and relevant information about his CPUSA activities.
Hay joined the Communist Party in 1934 and eventually resigned but not for ideological reasons. Rather, the controversy surrounding the CPUSA and the need to avoid bringing even more critical attention to Hay's homosexual organizing efforts prompted his leaving the Moscow-funded and -controlled apparatus.
The "Hope Along the Wind" film explains, "Many American Communists would leave the party when Joseph Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union could no longer be denied. But when Harry Hay left in 1950 his reasons were very different."
In other words, Hay remained a Stalinist.
"During his years in New York City, between 1939 and 1942, when he had access to the [Communist] Party's library, he read the historical writings of Marx and Engels and took advanced classes in Marxist theory with the intention of becoming a Party educator," says Radically Gay. In fact, Hay did become a CPUSA "educator."
Reports of the California Senate Fact-finding Committee on Un-American Activities identify Hay by name as an instructor during the 1940s at the California Labor School, a CPUSA front whose purpose was to "teach, advocate and propagandize Marxism-Leninism." Hay is described as a leader in the party in charge of communist-style entertainment activities.
Hay was summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1954 to testify about his CPUSA membership. But because he was officially out of the party by then, he refused to talk about it.
His real contribution to communism in America was developing the idea that homosexuals, like the "workers" under capitalism, were being oppressed and had to