He took three native brides – aged 13, 14 and 14, for those keeping score – infecting them and countless other local girls with syphilis. (Anthony Birley, pp. Direct information from some of his young friends has been available.Ph ilip Cummings (see the Wikipedia article on him).The Stanton boy, from Poet in New York . 2, In 1889, aged 23, Dowson fell in love with the eleven-year-old Adelaide “Missie” Foltinowicz, daughter of a Polish restaurant owner; in 1893 he unsuccessfully proposed to her.
In The book of God’s madness (1928) he declares his love of boys in a long poem, while Water-cherubs (1937) contains a poem in rhyming couplets about boys bathing, as well as an introduction and postscript on boy-love. McKenna exhaustively documents Wilde’s relationships both with young men who were his social equals, and with the teenage working-class boys or “chickens” who were to his taste.

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Bishop did express remorse for his crimes. [6][10] During science fiction fandom’s “Breendoggle” of 1963–1964, Breen was banned from attending Pacificon II and briefly blackballed from the subculture’s main amateur press association after allegations of further pedophilic acts surfaced. Wren was particularly fond of boys and tennis and sponsored several young Nigerian tennis players from secondary school through college. It later developed into the “International Enclave Movement” where people from various countries joined. [10] Nevertheless, many prominent fans of the era (including John Boardman), perhaps unaware of Breen’s prior conviction, dismissed the allegations as hearsay and “character assassination,” and the scandal blew over. A full documentary about Tom O’Carroll is available on YouTube. One reason people say Charlie Chaplin was a pedophile was because his next major relationship was with 15-year-old actress Lita Grey, whom he met on the set of The Gold Rush. He was also one of the editors of Sex met kinderen (1972), the first attempt in the Netherlands for a public discussion of pedophilia. His first boylove poems appeared in 1905 in Der Eigene edited by Adolf Brand. He later became an officer in the First World War. In 1994, Ginsberg rushed to the defense of the North American Man/Boy Love Association when the International Lesbian and Gay Associationattempted to expel decade-old ties to NAMBLA in a political move to gain consultative status in the United Nations.

Although they remained friends for almost forty years, until Lear’s death, the disparity of their feelings for one another constantly tormented Lear. In January 1999, he was acquitted of the charge of possession of child pornography by the British Columbia Supreme Court and, in May 1999, the British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld the ruling by a 2-1 vote. While homosexual, I found nothing to support  the rumor of him being a pedophile. [4] In the following year, he met Margarethe Kellner (1768–1848). Of his several “kids,” as he called them, the most important was Kenneth O’Connor, aged fifteen in 1895, when Stoddard unofficially adopted him and took him home to his Washington “Bungalow.” His experiences with Hawaiian and Tahitian youth provided the backdrop for his stories in South-sea idyls (1874, 1892) and The island of tranquil delights (1904).


Between 1979 and 1981, 29 children and young black men were killed in a series of homicides that terrorized a community and came to be known as the "Atlanta Child Murders."