Gerald Hannon paid a high price for speaking truthfully. But he did not stand down and he did not regret it.
Hannon had previously written sympathetically about intergenerational sex, in an article called Men Loving Boys Loving Men, published in 1977 in The Body Politic, a gay rights magazine. The article featured interviews with men who had sex with teenage boys. One of the men was a teacher who had relationships with his students.“People used to think he was a pedophile. He was not,” said Jackson. “He saw an interesting aspect of sexuality. He wanted to look it in the face and see what he saw.
Hannon’s honesty made him something of an accidental gay rights activist — he wanted nothing hidden and fought to create a society where gay couples could hold hands in public without fear of violence, marry and have children, or frequent bathhouses and engage in anonymous sex if that’s what they wanted to do.
“I am too well acquainted with the 1,000 tiny compromises that it entails ever to endure it again,” he wrote.
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