Vince, here's an interesting story along those same lines which I doubt many people have heard in the media.
BAY STATE TEENS TAUGHT QUEER SEX
aim.org
June 1, 2000
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In its May issue, The Massachusetts News, a conservative monthly, featured an incredible story about a March 25 workshop held at Tufts University for high school students where state employees taught them the techniques of queer sex. This article showed how homosexuals are recruiting children in the public schools of Massachusetts. This is being promoted with public funds appropriated to support a program to make schools safe for homosexual students.
This shocking story was broken by Jeanine Graf on her talk show on WTTK-FM (96.9) in Boston May 10. She played a tape of what transpired at the workshop that had been secretly recorded by a member of the Parents Rights Coalition. These parents have been trying to get state authorities to investigate the activities of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Net-work (GLSEN). They believe this organization is trying to convert straight teenagers into homosexuals. GLSEN gets $1.5 million a year from the Governor's Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth.
Their efforts were brushed aside by the education authorities until they taped the workshop that GLSEN sponsored at Tufts. The tape proved that homosexual state employees were instructing students as young as twelve or thirteen in homosexual practices. Their job is supposed to be teaching homosexual students how to avoid getting AIDS.
The airing of the tape generated a lot of interest, but most of the media held back. On April 16, the Associated Press put a good story about this on its state wire, reporting that what was supposed to be a workshop for teens on safe sex had "turned into a graphic discussion on homosexual acts."
It said that after hearing the tape, Commissioner of Education David Driscoll said, "The workshops were of a prurient nature, and not educational. What we heard suggests that the discussion contributed absolutely nothing to the students' understanding of how to avoid AIDS." The Boston Globe, which is owned by the New York Times, didn't find the AP story fit to print.
The Boston Herald did its own story, drawing on the AP article. On April 18, the three state employees who ran the workshop were dismissed. Driscoll directed his staff to quit working directly with students on issues of sex education, telling them to focus on educating teachers and parents. But at the same time, the state legislature approved giving another $1.5 million to GLSEN even though the Parents Rights Coalition had given every legislator a copy of the tape.
The Globe Prefers Causes To News
The Boston Globe, the state's largest newspaper, did not report what Driscoll said and what he did until a week later. Then it reported that Superior Court Judge Allan van Gestel had issued a preliminary injunction barring dissemination of the tape or any discussion of its contents. This gag order even prevented the legislature from discussing the tape when it was considering GLSEN's appropriation. The gag order was denounced by two Harvard law professors, Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe, but not by the Globe. It didn't even report their comments.
Rather than help expose the deplorable, disgusting conduct of the state employees who told teenage high school students how to perform such dangerous perverted sex as "fisting," the Boston Globe on June 1 attacked the exposers in a TV & Radio column by Clea Simon. She asked if the controversy was about parental rights to have a say in their children's education or about the role and responsibility of the state to defend a minority group. "Or," she asked, "is it really about ratings?"
Simon said that many callers to Graf's radio show had the idea that the GLSEN workshop was "not to teach gay and lesbian youth about health issues and safer sex practices," but "to locate impressionable youth of indeterminate sexuality and win them over to homosexuality." She said the idea of recruitment "is built on the concept of homosexuality as...an evil group that seeks to entrap the innocent." That, she said, "is an idea rife with homophobia that can be used to rationalize all kinds of bigotry, including violence." Simon noted that Graf had work-ed for a Christian radio station! She might even be a Christian.
The following article is reprinted from The Massachusetts News with the permission of the publisher, J. Edward Pawlick, an AIM supporter and author of Freedom Will Conquer Racism and Sexism.
The following story contains graphic information of a sexual nature. While this material is troublesome to us and will be to others, it is important to realize that the State of Massachusetts deems this information appropriate for teenagers as young as 14.
( AIM's Warning: This is not for the squeamish. The layout has been changed to the AIM Report style. )
Last year a mother from the western suburbs joined some other parents and went to the State House to appeal to the Governor's office. She was becoming frantic. Her son at the local high school had been told by his musician friends how "cool" it was at the school's Gay/Straight Alliance (GSA) club meetings. She soon found out that the club had watched at least one R-rated video of two boys having a love affair. She discovered some provocative handouts in his room. He became detached, and she suspected that he was experimenting with homosexual relationships. The principal would not look into it, nor would any other officials. It was suggested that maybe she was homophobic.
No one from the Governor's office would speak to her or the other parents. A Department of Public Health official finally listened to them but afterwards would not return her calls. Later the Boston homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows, published a blistering article warning that bigoted, homophobic parents were trying to endanger the money for the state's gay school clubs.
Each year, Governor Paul Cellucci budgets $1.5 million for his "Governor's Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth." Made up of homosexual activists from across the state, since 1992, the Commission has used the "safe schools" mantra and state money to persuade over 180 schools in Massachusetts to accept the clubs. Parents and others who offer any criticism of the programs are regularly accused of homophobia and endangering students' safety. The Governor, who gets much support from the gay community, shields the GSA programs from scrutiny. The Commission does much of its work directly through the Massachusetts Department of Education and other state agencies.
Queer Sex For Youth 14-21
The Commission also works closely with a national organization, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to give the clubs materials, movies, literature and funding for various activities. In all, there are over 700 GSA clubs in the country, many of them partially federally funded. School officials use several arguments to deflect criticism of GSAs. In a Boston Herald article last month, Newton assistant superintendent Jim Marini brushed aside a parent's questioning of Newton's GSA activities. "This is not about sex. This is about human rights," he said. The school counselor, Linda Sha-piro, added, "The purpose is to make gay students feel safe."
On March 25, the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Governor's Commission, and GLSEN co-sponsored a statewide conference at Tufts University called "Teach-Out." Among the goals were to build more GSAs in Massachusetts and expand homosexual teaching into the lower grades. Scores of gay-friendly teachers and administrators attended. They received state "professional development credits." Teenagers and children as young as 12 were encouraged to come from around the state, and many were bussed in from their home districts. Homosexual activists from across the country were also there.
To say that the descriptions below, of workshops and presentations of this state-sponsored event for educators and children, are "every parent's nightmare" does not do them justice. It is beyond belief that this could be happening at all. One music teacher who attended out of curiosity said that she could not sleep for several nights afterwards and had night-mares about it.
In one well-attended workshop, "What They Didn't Tell You About Queer Sex & Sexuality In Health Class: A Workshop For Youth Only, Ages 14-21," the three homosexual presenters acting in their professional capacities coaxed about 20 children into talking openly and graphically about homosexual sex. The purpose appeared to be to train adults who are running the student clubs. The three presenters, who described themselves as homosexual, were:
Margot E. Ables, Coordinator, HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts Dept. of Education
Julie Netherland, Coordinator, HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts Dept. of Education
Michael Gaucher, Consultant, HIV/AIDS Program, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health
The workshop syllabus included:
"What's it like to be young, queer and beginning to date? Are lesbians at risk for HIV?……We will address the information you want about queer sexuality and some of the politics that prevent us from getting our needs met."
The workshop opened by the three public employees asking the children "how they knew, as gay people, whether or not they've had sex." Questions were thrown around the room about whether oral sex was "sex," to which the Department of Public Health employee stated, "If that's not sex, then the number of times I've had sex has dramatically decreased; from a mountain to a valley, baby." Eventually the answer presented itself, and it was determined that whenever an orifice was filled with genitalia, then sex had occurred. The Department of Public Health employee, Michael Gaucher, had the following exchange with one student, who appeared to be about 16 years old:
Michael Gaucher: "What orifices are we talking about?"
Student: [hesitation]
Michael Gaucher: "Don't be shy, honey; you can do it."
Student: "Your mouth."
Michael Gaucher: "Okay."
Student: "Your ass."
Michael Gaucher: "There you go."
Student: "Your pussy. That kind of place."
But since sex occurred "when an orifice was filled," the next question was how lesbians could "have sex." Margot Abels discussed whether a dildo had to be involved; when it was too big or too small; and what homosexual resources students could consult to get similar questions answered.
"Carpet Munching" And "Fisting"
Then the children were asked to role-play. One student was to act the part of "a young lesbian who's really enraptured with another woman, and it's really coming down to the wire and you're thinking about having sex." The other student played the "hip GSA (gay, straight alliance) lesbian advisor, who you feel you can talk to." The "counseling" included discussions of lesbian sex, oral-vaginal contact, or "carpet munching," as one student put it. The student asked whether it would smell like fish. At that point the session turned to another subject.
There was a five minute pause so that all of the teenagers could write down questions for the homosexual presenters. The first question was read by Julie Netherland, "What's fisting?"A student answered this question by informing the class that "fisting" is when you put your "whole hand into the ass or pussy" of another. When a few of the students winced, the Department of Public Health employee offered, "A little known fact about fisting, you don't make a fist, like this. It's like this," forming his hand into the shape of a tear drop rather than a balled fist. He informed the children that it was much easier.
Margot Abels told the students that "fisting" is not about forcing your hand into somebody's "hole, opening or orifice" if they don't want it there. She said that "usually" the person was very relaxed and opened him or herself up to the other. She informed the class that it is a very emotional and intense experience.
At this point, a child of about 16 asked why someone would want to do that. He stated that if the hand were pulled out quickly, the whole thing didn't sound very appealing to him. Margot Abels was sure to point out that although fisting "often gets a really bad rap," it usually isn't about the pain, "not that we're putting that down." Margot Abels informed him and the class that "fisting" was "an experience of letting somebody into your body that you want to be that close and intimate with." When a child asked the question, "Why would someone do this?" Margot Abels provided a comfortable response to the children in order to "put them into an exploratory mode."
Clits And Tongue Rings
Michael Gaucher presented the next question, "Do lesbians rub their clits together?"Michael Gaucher and Margot Abels asked the kids if they thought it was possible and whether someone would do a "hand-diagram" for the class. No one volunteered, but a girl who looked about 15 or 16 then stepped up to the board and drew a three foot high vagina and labeled each of the labia, the clitoris, and "put up inside the ‘G'-spot." While drawing, Michael Gaucher told her to use the "pink" chalk, to which Margot Abels responded, "not everyone is pink, honey." All of the children laughed.
After the chalk vagina was complete, the children remarked on the size of the "clit," and the presenters stated that that was a gifted woman. Then Margot Abels informed all of the young girls that indeed, you can rub your "clitori" together, either with or without clothes, and "you can definitely orgasm from it." Michael Gaucher told the kids that "there is a name for this: tribadism," which he wrote on the board and told one girl who looked about 14 to "bring that vocabulary word back to Bedford." Julie Netherland informed the children that it wasn't too difficult because "when you are sexually aroused, your clit gets bigger."
"Should you spit after you suck another boy (or a man)?"
Michael Gaucher read the following from a card: "Cum and calories: Spit versus swallow and the health concerns." Gaucher informed the children that although he didn't know the calorie count of male ejaculation, he has "heard that it's sweeter if people eat celery." He then asked the boys, "Is it rude not to swallow?"
Many of the high school boys mumbled "No," but one about the age of 16 said emphatically, "Oh no!" One boy, again about the age of 16, offered his advice on avoiding HIV/AIDS transmission while giving oral sex by not brushing your teeth or eating coarse food for four hours before you "go down on a guy," "because then you probably don't want to be swallowing cum."
Another question asked was whether oral sex was better with tongue rings. A 16 year old student murmured, "Yes," to which all of the children laughed. Michael Gaucher said, "There you have it" and stated something to the effect that the debate has ended.
Condom Use Is Up To You
One often hears that there is an aggressive HIV/AIDS prevention campaign, but the session ran 55 minutes before the first mention of "protection" and safer sex came. In the context of the "safer sex" discussion, however, it was pointed out that these children could make an "informed decision" not to use a condom. Outside in the conference hall, the children could easily obtain as many condoms, vaginal condoms, and other contraceptive devices as they wished from various organizations which distribute such.
Sex Is Central For Homosexuals
Another popular session was presented by the same three public employees in their professional capacity and was called, "Putting the ‘Sex' Back Into Sexual Orientation: Classroom Strategies for Health & Sexuality Educators."
The workshop description included:
What does it mean to say "being gay, lesbian and bisexual isn't about sex?"...How can we deny that sexuality is central for all of us? How do we learn to address the unique concerns of queer youth?...This workshop is for educators to examine strategies for integrating sexuality education and HIV prevention content specific to gay, lesbian and bisexual students into the classroom and GSA's...additional strategies will be discussed.
The three presenters now assumed the task of teaching teachers how to facilitate discussions about "queer sex" with their students.
Margot Abels opened by telling the room full of teachers (and two high school students), "We always feel like we are fighting against people who deny publicly, who say privately, that being queer is not at all about sex... We believe otherwise. We think that sex is central to every single one of us and particularly queer youth." Margot Abels, Julie Netherland and Michael Gaucher reviewed a few "campaigns" that have been used to demonstrate to queer youth how to best "be safe" while still enjoying homosexual sex.
The campaign, "Respect yourself, protect yourself," was thought to be good in getting the message to kids that they should use protection, but since it made children who didn't protect themselves feel bad, it ultimately was a poor message. Michael Gaucher pointed out that children "with an older partner that they are not feeling they can discuss things with, does that mean that they don't respect themselves?"
The campaign, "No sex, no problem," was ridiculed, as it assumed that children could opt not to have sex. Additionally, it made those children who had already had sex feel bad, or think they had a problem since they had had sex. After reviewing a few of the campaigns, Margot Abels described the project she works on. The "Gay/Straight Alliance HIV Education Project" goes to five different schools each year conducting up to eight "HIV prevention sessions" in that school's gay club. These same presenters who just told a group of children how to properly position their hands for "fisting" were now telling a room full of educators that they would visit their schools and conduct their workshops for their students.
Bringing Homosexuality Into Middle School
One participant remarked half-way through that Margot Abels just wasn't "talking to" her, since she, the participant, was a lesbian, middle school teacher. She wanted to know specifically what she could do to facilitate discussions about homosexuality in middle school. This was solved in another session entitled, "Struggles & Triumphs of Including Homosexuality in a Middle School Curriculum."
Christine L. Hoyle, Special Education Teacher and workshop presenter, told the story of how she turned the holocaust portion of her curriculum into a gay affirming section. Ms. Hoyle allowed the group at the conference to watch a video which she had her students produce and which was narrated by a seventh grade girl. This girl told the audience that ancient Greeks "encouraged homosexuals; in fact, it was considered normal for an adolescent boy to have an older, wiser man as his lover." Thus, this teacher informed her adolescent students that it is okay if an older man approaches them for sexual gratification.
Sex Kit With Bandages
An enormous amount of very disturbing material, most of it aimed at children, was distributed at the conference. Much of it encourages young children to become actively engaged in homosexual activities. The Sidney Borum Community Health Center table was giving out a cassette sized "pocket sex" kit, which included two condoms, two antiseptic "moist" towelettes, and six bandages, which were for "when the sex got really rough" according to the high school aged volunteer behind the desk. There was a countless supply of condoms supplied by both Sidney Borum and Planned Parenthood, all of which were for the taking by any child who wanted them. One could see children as young as 12 or 13 at the conference participating and receiving "information" and materials.
Some of the other workshops at this taxpayer-funded conference for educators are more unusual. For instance:
Ask the Transsexuals - Early childhood educators: How to decide whether to come out or not - Getting Gay Issues Included in Elementary School Staff - The Struggles and Triumphs of Including Homosexuality in a Middle School Curriculum - Teachers Coming Out - Youth Coming Out in High School - Diesel Dykes and Lipstick Lesbians: Defining and Exploring Butch/Femme Identity - A Strategy to Educate Faculty: Lexington HS's GSA Presentation to Faculty - From Lesbos to Stonewall: Incorporating Sexuality into a World History Curriculum - Starting a Gay/Straight Alliance in Your School
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June A AIM Notes:
THE MEDIA HAVE NOT TREATED THE SCANDAL THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS REPORT AS deserving any national coverage. In fact, it has had relative little coverage even by the Massachusetts papers. I believe the media have a duty to inform the public about situations as well as substances (like tobacco) that are harmful, especially when children are involved. That is why we have devoted this AIM Report to the story. Parents need to be told that a homosexual organization that gets substantial public funding has been caught teaching school kids, such things as the proper way to insert one's hand into another person's anus. This was done at a "Teachout" at Tufts University sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which gets state and federal funding, ostensibly to help make public schools safe for homosexuals. Three "presenters" who explained in graphic terms how homosexual men and women engage in sex were state employees whose job was supposed to be to teach students how to avoid getting AIDS.
THEY DIDN'T TELL THE STUDENTS THAT THE BEST WAY FOR MALES TO AVOID GETTING AIDS is to avoid homosexual sex. They didn't even stress using condoms, something that many homosexuals dislike. All three were terminated by the state government after the commissioner of education listened to the tape of their presentations that had been secretly recorded by Scott Whiteman of the Parents Rights Coalition. PRC wants the schools to be safe places for all boys and girls. They want them to be protected from those who are trying to get them to not only tolerate the risky homosexual lifestyle, but to adopt it. PRC gets no state funding or other assistance. Until they gave the commissioner the tape that proved that his employees and GLSEN were encouraging kids to engage in practices that could shorten their life expectancy by 30 years, they couldn't get him to do anything to stop it.
SCOTT WHITEMAN TOLD ME THAT THE SAME KIND OF PRESENTATION WAS MADE AT THE GLSEN workshop last year, but without a tape to prove it, PRC couldn't get officials to pay any attention to their complaints. Whiteman said that without the tape, nothing would have been done to halt the damage being done. He and Brian Camenker, the president of PRC, are now being sued by a homosexual group for violating the privacy of the students who attended the workshop. It isn't the students' privacy they are concerned about. It's the exposure of those who were trying to persuade kids that disgusting and dangerous sexual practices are fun.
CAMENKER AND WHITEMAN ARE BEING REPRESENTED BY CHESTER DARLING, AN EXCEL-lent lawyer who is affiliated with Citizens for the Preservation of Constitutional Rights (CPCR). This is a nonprofit public interest law firm. Contributions are needed to help it defend Camenker and Whiteman, who have done us all a great service in getting the proof that the public funding provided to homosexuals to make schools safer for them is actually being used to make schools more dangerous. I am making a donation to their defense and I hope you will as well. Make your check out to CPCR, 306 Dartmouth St., Boston, MA 02116. A card that you can use to make your donation is enclosed.
THE TAPE WAS CRUCIAL IN GETTING THE MEDIA TO PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THIS STORY. Print reporters did nothing with the transcripts of the tapes, but TV did a lot with the tapes. The AP provided its member papers in Massachusetts with a good story about the tape on May 16. It was the first to report Education Commissioner David Driscoll's denunciation of the workshops as "of a prurient nature," "not educational" and contributing "absolutely nothing to the students' understanding of how to avoid AIDS." No daily in the state ran this AP story. The Boston Herald drew on it for their story, but The Boston Globe ignored it completely. Why? Here's a hint. Richard Berke, national political correspondent of the New York Times, told a gathering of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association on April 12 that "there are times when...literally three-quarters of the people deciding what's on the front page (of the N.Y. Times) are not-so-closeted homosexuals." The Globe is owned by the N.Y. Times, and homosexuals there are also very influential. The chances of getting these papers to report, much less feature, this story or the Jesse Dirkhising murder story are very slim indeed.
THE TAPE IS AVAILABLE FOR $5.00 POSTPAID FROM AMERICANS FOR TRUTH, PO BOX 45252, Washington, DC 20026. If you want to get involved in combating this, I suggest that you visit their web site, www.americansfortruth.org They also have a newsletter, The Lambda Report. It costs $35 a year. Peter LaBarbera, a fearless crusader, heads this organization. |
