... plays on the impression people have always had of homosexuals as being child molesters." He described opposition to NAMBLA as "... [similar] to one waged by 'lesbian feminists who jumped right on the bandwagon' of what he called the anti-gay male/child pornography scare", according to The Advocate. He also likened being a pederast in the United States to being "a Jew in Nazi Germany" and criticized the mainstream LGBT community for its assimilationist approach towards capitalist and heterocentric society. He said that the label LGBT is "the most absurd one of all" and is "far too fixed an identity, eliding the fluidity of sexuality and sexual behavior ... in that sense[,] Kinsey's scale is valid." He also maintained that "assimilationist homosexual groups[,] ... the psychiatric profession and the bourgeois media, such as the New York Times ... all nowadays blur distinctions by lumping everything under the rubric 'pedophilia,' an absurdity apparently intended to criminalize love and force very different behaviors into one negative pigeonhole." Summaries of Thorstad's views appear in his essays "Man/Boy Love and the American Gay Movement" and "Homosexuality and the American Left: The Impact of Stonewall". Later views and legacy With the turn of the millennium, Thorstad became a critic of the way in which the sexual liberationist goals of gay politics were replaced by the identity politics that came to dominate the movement. David Thorstad's archival papers are now held at the University of Minnesota. Writings Israel: a colonial-settler state? by Maxime Rodinson New York, Monad Press; distributed by Pathfinder Press, 1973 (translated from the French) The Early Homosexual Rights Movement (1864-1935) New York; Times Change Press, 1974 with John Lauritsen Gay Liberation and Socialism : Documents from the Discussions on Gay Liberation Inside the Socialist Workers Party (1970-1973) pt.2, pt.3 editor, [New York] : Thorstad, [introd. 1976] No apologies: the unauthorized publication of internal discussion documents of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) concerning lesbian/gay male liberation. Part 2, 1975-79 editor, [New York : D.Thorstad] ; New York (415 W. 23rd St., Box 11F, New York 10011) 1980 Le Gay Voyage: Guide et regard homosexuels sur les grandes métropoles interviewee, [New York : D. Thorstad]; Paris (22 rue Huyghens, 75014): Albin Michel, 1980 A Witchhunt foiled: the FBI vs. NAMBLA New York : North American Man/Boy Love Association, 1985 (introduction) Man/Boy Love and the American Gay Movement by David Thorstad (1991, Haworth Press, Inc.) Homosexuality