Boston Magazine Writer Resurfaces in NY Times About Gays

Remember the Boston magazine staffer who threatened to sue MassNews when we reported he was searching the country for "homosexual" children in middle schools and junior highs to write about (up to age 14)?

That staffer, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, surfaced again last month in the NY Times Magazine in an article about transgendered teenagers. He was identified only as a "writer living in Boston." For some reason, the Times did not reveal he is a writer about gay causes and a winner of the "National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association's Excellence in Journalism Award."

At the time, MassNews received a threatening letter from the prestigious firm of Hill & Barlow, threatening suit. But, of course, they didn't do so because we pointed out that they had nothing to sue about, whereas we did have a libel action against Boston magazine.

The Traditional Values Coalition describes Denizet-Lewis' latest article in the Times this way.

"This is yet another effort to normalize the abnormal and to position so-called 'transgendered teenagers' as individuals in need of 'safety' in our nation's public schools.

"The author describes the life of 'M,' a 13-year-old girl who has secretly lived as a boy for four years. Denizet-Lewis repeatedly refers to 'M' as a boy even though she is a girl. 'M' is being aided and abetted in her deceit and sexual confusion by a school teacher who shields her from exposure in gym classes. The teacher says that he's only providing a 'safe' environment for 'M' at school - and notes that in a more 'understanding and accepting world,' this seriously disturbed girl could 'come out' as a transgendered teen.

"This puff piece for sexual confusion is simply one in a growing number of propaganda efforts to actively promote the notion that there's no such thing as 'male' or 'female' and that if you think you're the opposite sex, you really are. This is pure insanity. A person may think he's Napoleon or a German Shepherd but that doesn't make him either.

"A girl who thinks she's a boy is suffering from a serious Gender Identity Disorder and needs long-term therapy. She doesn't need to be aided and abetted in her mental disorder by pro-homosexual teachers and a school system that will allow her to remain in such a sadly delusional state.

"Unfortunately, groups like the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) [who gave us Fistgate in Massachusetts] are aggressively promoting the notion that our nation's schools need to protect 'transgendered' students from violence and ridicule. No, parents need to get their sexually confused teens into therapy as quickly as possible to help them overcome delusional thinking - and schools must not use their influence to keep teens in a mentally confused state.

"Traditional Values Coalition has published a report on the goals of the transgender movement. A 'Gender Identity Goes Mainstream' describes this effort to encourage troubled teens to seek sex-change operations. This movement must be opposed by parents and by ethical school officials. Girls like 'M' must not be condemned to lives of despair and frustration. They need emotional healing, not cultural approval and protection."

Liberals in Lincoln Don't Like "Anti-Snob" Law Either

Even the picturesque town of Lincoln, where many rich liberals live, is attempting to get around the state's anti-snob law. It allows developers to override local zoning regulations if the town doesn't have at least 10% "affordable housing."

The EPA has warned the state that "sprawl" is the worst environmental hazard in Mass. -- but no one has the courage to change our laws.

After MassNews wrote about the woes of the pristine town of Grafton in our February 2001 issue and mailed it to 250,000 homes across the state, the Boston Globe took notice. It immediately reported many stories about how wonderful the state law is. But Senate Pres. Tom Birmingham told the Globe in the fall of that year, "I have heard more complaints about [the affordable housing law] in the last year than in my last nine years in office."

The rich liberals in Lincoln are now trying to solve their problem by buying 30 acres that have just come up for sale in their town.

The town's administrator told the Globe, "There is a real threat of developers coming to Lincoln with large-scale projects, going against what the community wants and needs. This is a really good opportunity for the Town of Lincoln to take control."

No one disagrees with the town's desire to keep out the sprawl that the state demands.

But where were those rich liberals when tiny Grafton was trying to take control of their environment?

Is Globe Agreeing that Country Used to be Better?

Even the Boston Globe seems to agree that our country used to be better when we had higher values and morals. Their cartoon on last Saturday's Editorial Page, which was taken from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, showed a man at a newsstand looking at the headlines and saying, "I miss the days when the only people you couldn't trust were in government." The headlines he was looking at were:

- Insider trading
- Enron scandal
- Athletes on steroids
- Is your neighbor a terrorist?
- Drug companies gouge patients
- Arthur Andersen case
- Catholic priest scandal

Is the Globe really telling us that when old-timers say they can remember a time when people were more honest and decent, they may be right?

Owner of NY Times Approves Slur of Jesus Christ

The Chairman of the NY Times, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., apparently approves the use of the names of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ as attempted humor by a Boston Globe columnist.

Sulzberger has failed to respond to a letter which was sent by MassNews via Federal Express on May 16.

The columnist, Alex Beam, used both of those names in a story about minivans. He wrote on May 9, "With hindsight, we see that the very profitable minivan was the John the Baptist for Detroit's version of Jesus Christ - the criminally profitable SUV."

Lawyers at Palmer & Dodge Silent About Horse Fraud; Not Concerned About Reputation

The lawyers at Palmer & Dodge remained strangely silent last month about their apparent fraud of horses and the Marriage Amendment.

Two of their lawyers, Neil P. Arkuss and George Ticknor have been behind the slander and libel of the sponsors of the Protection of Marriage Amendment with a spurious suit about horses.

Hopefully, they will remain silent, but everyone knows that the opponents of marriage will not. This fraud will be brought up again and again as this matter is debated during the next two years.

The lawyers claimed that "thousands of signatures" were "fraudulent[ly] diverted" to the petition for marriage and that they have received written responses from over 1,000 voters who say they were tricked.

But when challenged last month to produce the mysterious box they carry with them and to let a disinterested party examine those responses, they failed to respond.

Their lawsuit has been dismissed by Judge Thomas E. Connolly in Boston's Superior Court.

Chuck Colson Credits MassNews

Chuck Colson gave a credit to MassNews yesterday on his daily Breakpoint program.

He mentioned Fistgate when saying that parents ought to know "precisely what their kids are learning in school." He continued with that theme and said, "Parents definitely ought to make nuisances of themselves when schools are secretive about what they're teaching students."

He cited the Weekly Standard as the source for his information on the radio show (the Standard obtained their information from reading MassNews), but in the Internet version, Colson linked to our story on Fistgate with this line, "Read a full report on GLSEN's controversial 2000 conference."

Will Wellesley, Smith and Holyoke Be Forced to Admit Gay Men?

Falling Behind Other Progressive Schools

MassNews Staff
June 5, 2002

Wellesley, Smith and Holyoke colleges will soon be admitting gay men or they will begin falling behind progressive colleges from other parts of the country.

This results from the announcement by Swarthmore and Haverford (this is not a joke, this is absolutely serious) that they will allow gay students to live with straight females because gay men feel uncomfortable when forced to live with strange men.

The student who started all this was Josh Andrix at Haverford, who says, "When I looked for housing, all the people it made sense for me to live with were women."

The Director of Residential Housing at Swarthmore agrees, "We may be on the forefront right now, but in three to five years, co-ed housing will be an option on most campuses."

She didn't comment whether gays at her school will increase after the men discover that becoming gay allows them to live with straight women. Or will the opposite happen because some of the gay men succumb to the feminine attraction that is so blatantly displayed? What will bisexual men be allowed to do? How will they be made to feel comfortable?

Meanwhile, this all leaves our Massachusetts girls in a quandary. It demonstrates that many of our female students, whether lesbian or straight, now are uncomfortable living with strange girls. The only way to cure this problem is provide them with men as roommates. But the only men who would be absolutely safe would be gay men. (Unless of course, they turn out to be bisexual men, in which case there might be some confusion.)

If our female colleges in Massachusetts are not to fall behind, they must begin recruiting gay men immediately and create some test to determine whether these guys really are gay. That test would be an excellent project for the 28 researchers that our tax dollars pay for at the Wellesley Centers for Women.