Walter Breen

Walter Henry Breen, (1930-1993) writer, numismatist and homosexual activist. A hero of the LGBT movement, he is regarded as a gay icon and celebrity. His book Greek Love, published in 1964 under the pseudonym J. Z. Eglinton, advocated and glorified homosexual relations between men and boys. Breen objected to the "adultification" of homosexuality in 20th-century definitions and maintained (correctly ) that historically, homosexual relations had always been between a man and a much younger boy. Though married to Marion Zimmer Bradley he was a lifelong pedophile who raped both of his own children, a son and a daughter, the latter from when she was aged five. He also raped, assaulted and molested many other children, mainly boys, and was jailed on the testimony of his daughter, Moira Greyland Peat, in 1989.

Breen remembered being molested himself by a priest when aged about eight and his life history provides an example of the classic pattern of child sex abuse > homosexuality > child sex abuse.