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'''David Thorstad''' (born 1941), is a United States  communist, LGBT activist, pederast and historian of the [[gay rights movement]].   

'''David Thorstad''' (born 1941), is a United States  communist, homosexual rights activist, pederast and historian of the [[gay rights movement]].   

In the early 1970s Thorstad was president of the Gay Activists Alliance in New York. He was also a member of the Socialist Workers' Party, a  Trotskyist group, for more than six years, and a staff writer for its newspaper, ''The Militant''. He left the SWP in December 1973, citing the organization's lack of enthusiasm for the “gay” liberation movement and failure to develop a “Marxist materialist analysis” of it. In 1976 he self-published a collection of internal party documents relating to its discussion of the “gay” liberation movement, under the title ''Gay Liberation and Socialism: Documents from the Discussions on Gay Liberation Inside the Socialist Workers Party (1970-1973)''.  

In the early 1970s Thorstad was president of the Gay Activists Alliance in New York. He was also a member of the Socialist Workers' Party, a  Trotskyist group, for more than six years, and a staff writer for its newspaper, ''The Militant''. He left the SWP in December 1973, citing the organization's lack of enthusiasm for the “gay” liberation movement and failure to develop a “Marxist materialist analysis” of it. In 1976 he self-published a collection of internal party documents relating to its discussion of the “gay” liberation movement, under the title ''Gay Liberation and Socialism: Documents from the Discussions on Gay Liberation Inside the Socialist Workers Party (1970-1973)''.  

==Connections with Pedophilia==

==Connections with Pedophilia==

   

   

In 1978 Thorstad was a founding member of [[North American Man-Boy Love Association]]NAMBLA. He served as a member of the Steering Committee until September 1996 and was one of a group of NAMBLA members who were sued in 2000 for the wrongful death of a ten-year-old boy in a long-running court case Curley v. NAMBLA in Boston.

In 1978 Thorstad was a founding member of [[North American Man-Boy Love Association]] (NAMBLA). He served as a member of the Steering Committee until September 1996 and was one of a group of NAMBLA members who were sued in 2000 for the wrongful death of a ten-year-old boy in a long-running court case Curley v. NAMBLA in Boston.

==Attitude to present-day LGBT Movement==

==Attitude to present-day LGBT Movement==