The premiere at the New York Underground Film Festival was met with fanfare and covered by national news organizations as well as shock jocks like Howard Stern. The film was released to critical acclaim.
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Poet and free speech advocate Allen Ginsberg, NAMBLA's most famous member and defender, appears in the documentary and reads a "graphic ode to youth". In other scenes, photographs from the NAMBLA Bulletin are shown depicting shirtless or otherwise sexually positioned boys, as well as drawings of winged boys without clothes Leyland Stevenson recounts a sexual encounter in which he received oral sex from a boy as nothing less than a "religious experience" an unremarkable interaction occurs between Stevenson and a random boy, after which Stevenson expresses his certainty that the boy was "flirting" with him a schoolteacher admits to recently losing his job due to his membership in NAMBLA several threatening messages are left on another member's answering machine. The documentary describes the organization and recounts its history by way of outspoken NAMBLA members Leyland Stevenson, Renato Corazza, Peter Melzer, and Chuck Dodson, who expound upon and offer justifications for their feelings toward boys.Įarly in the film, a cadre of NAMBLA members attends the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation to argue for inclusion in the gay rights movement, a demand which is met with strong disapproval from parade-goers. The term " chickenhawk" is used in gay slang to refer to an older man who chases after younger males. Since its release, the film has been screened for the FBI, university criminology departments and other law enforcement agencies. It has drawn attention for its unique approach: letting its subjects, the NAMBLA members, incriminate themselves in a public forum. Sideman's evenhanded approach provides the audience with an insight into the group members' psyches.
The film is an exposé of the group's controversial beliefs and its members' clandestine lifestyles. The film profiles members of the pedophile/ pederasty organization North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) who discuss sexual relationships between men and boys below the age of consent. Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys (also known as simply Chickenhawk) is a 1994 American documentary film produced, written and directed by Adi Sideman, who founded YouNow in 2011.