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.
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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.