THE PINK SWASTIKA - Shattering Denial

A Word to the Reader
Two terms used frequently in this book, “homosexualist” and “pederast,” will be unfamiliar to many readers. We use the
term homosexualist to refer to any person, homosexual or not, who actively promotes homosexuality as morally and
socially equivalent to heterosexuality as a basis for social policy. In our view Harry Hay, founder of the American “gayrights”
movement, and President Bill Clinton, who attempted to force the U.S. military to accept open homosexuals, are
both homosexualists. Each has worked in his own way to legitimize homosexual behavior in America. Many heterosexual
people are homosexualists. Many self-described homosexual people are not homosexualists. A homosexualist is defined by
his actions in a sociopolitical context. This differs from Samuel Igra’s use of the term in Germany’s National Vice, which
we have quoted extensively. Igra uses “homosexualist” to define sexual conduct only.
A pederast is defined as a physically mature man who engages in or desires to engage in sex with boys around the age of
puberty, as opposed to a pedophile, who targets both male and female prepubescent children and/or pubertal girls. (Pederast
derives from the Greek paed, meaning boy, and erastis, meaning lover). Self-defined “boy-lovers” who have formed
“children’s rights” organizations such as the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) in this country, and
who formed the Gemeinschaft der Eigenen in Germany, generally seem to focus their sexual attention on boys roughly
between the ages of 8 and 18 years, with an apparent preference for boys about 12 years old. Some sources quoted in this
study use the terms “pederast” and “pedophile” interchangeably. We hope to reestablish the distinction between these terms
(dubious as it may be) to facilitate a deeper understanding of homosexual ideology and the varieties of its expression.
English translation of German words using the umlaut (two dots above the vowel) result in different spellings of words
like Fuehrer and Roehm (Fuhrer and Rohm). In this book we have chosen the form of spelling in which the vowel is
followed by an “e.” Spelling of German words varies among the authors we quote but we have taken the liberty of
harmonizing the spelling in this book.