David Thorstad
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Biography
David Thorstad is a former president of New York’s Gay Activists Alliance, a cofounder of New York’s Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights, a cofounder of the North American Man/Boy Love Association, coauthor of The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864–1935), and editor of Gay Liberation and Socialism: Documents from the Discussions on Gay Liberation inside the Socialist Workers Party (1970–1973).
Notes from David Thorstad
His Works
Gay Activism and Lifestyles
Thorstad remarks at 2012 Harry Hay conference
Reminiscences of John Burnside and Harry Hay (as Microsoft Word Doc)
The Death of Gay Liberation, by David Thorstad (as pdf) or (as Microsoft Word document)
Tearoom! A Conversation with a New York Aficionado (Steam, vol. 3, issue 2 Summer 1995) (as pdf) or (as Microsoft Word document)
No to Sexophobia (May 3, 1995) as pdf
Ethical Tasks of Homosexuals by Dr.Kurt Hiller translated by David Thorstad
What Is To Be Done (as Microsoft Word document)
In Appreciation of Eleanor Cooper (as Microsoft Word document)
David Thorstad reflects on his collaboration with Tom Reeves
Pederasty and Homosexuality
Tribute to Tony Duvert from /Le Monde/, translated by David Thorstad
Man/Boy Love Then and Now: A Personal-Political Appraisal (as pdf) or (as Microsoft Word document)
Man/Boy Love and the American Gay Movement (as pdf)
Man-Boy Love and Feminism (as pdf) or (as Microsoft Word document)
In Alexander's Footsteps: Siwa Today (as pdf) or (as Microsoft Word document)
A Pueblo Journal: Homosexuality among the Zapotecs (as pdf)
Homosexuality and the State: What the Atlanta Murders Reveal, by David Thorstad (as pdf)
Love Letter from a Boy (Now a Man and Lover of Boys Himself) To a Man He Used to Be in Love With, by David Thorstad (as pdf)
The Left
Reminiscences of Ray Dunne (as Word document)
Review of Guy Hocquenghem's The Screwball Asses
Homosexuality and the American Left: The Impact of Stonewall (as pdf) or (as Microsoft Word document)
Frank Wedekind: Esthetics and Eroticism, by Leon Trotsky. Translated and with an Introduction by David Thorstad as pdf
"Tovarich, Chiclets": Impressions of Cuba (as pdf)
"The Socialist Workers Party vs. Gay Liberation (or The Cuckoo Builds a Strange Nest)"
Sexuality and Socialism: Book Review by David Thorstad (as Microsoft Word document)
Leon Trotsky, "The German Puzzle," translated by David Thorstad
Gay Marriage
Balls and Chains: The Marriage Sellout (pdf file)
Marriage, Marketing, Tailending: The U.S. Left and Same-Sex Marriage
Religion
Holy Rolling (as pdf) or (as Microsoft Word document)
Darwin 1, God 0: Intelligent Design or Incompetent Design?
Some Thoughts on Seeing Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ (as Word document in English) (as Word document in German)
Thorstad letter to Workers Vanguard on Anti-Muslim Cartoons
Native American
The Sad Legacy of Moose Dung and Red Robe '(as Microsoft Word document (as PDF document)
Minnesota's Great Anishinaabe Fish-Off
Thief River Falls: The Indian Connection
Land Grab: Ramsey vs. the Indians (as Microsoft Word document)
Review of William W. Warren: The Life, Letters, and Times of an Ojibwe Leader by Theresa M. Schenck by David Thorstad
Other
Hands off the Peat!: The Rape of Minnesota’s Big Bog
Statement on Dismissal of Curley Anti-Free-Speech Suit
My Tamil Nadu (as Microsoft Word document)