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Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys

Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys is a 1994 American documentary film produced, written, and directed by Adi Sideman, who founded YouNow in 2011. 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.

Synopsis
The documentary describes the organization and recounts its history by way of outspoken NAMBLA members Leland Stevenson, Renato Corazza, Peter Melzer, and Chuck Dodson, who expound upon and offer justifications for their feelings toward boys. Early 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 initially met with disapproval from parade-goers. 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; 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 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. 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". ==Release and reception==
Release and reception
The film was released to critical acclaim. According to New York Newsdays reviewer, "It would have been too easy to become strident, had he [Sideman] set out to make an agitprop piece about the evils of pedophilia. So he lets NAMBLA bury itself. And the organization obliges." Since its release, the film has been screened for psychology, sociology, and criminology departments throughout the US and for the FBI. The film's distributor, Stranger than Fiction, was run by Todd Phillips, who founded the New York Underground Film Festival and later went on to produce The Hangover films, Due Date, and Joker. ==See also==
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