But, but… he’s a Gay Rights icon!
The gay rights advocate and former member of the San Francisco Human Right Commission who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography was sentenced Wednesday and will be required to register as a sex offender for life, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Larry Brinkin, 67, agreed to a plea deal in January with prosecutors, who dropped a second charge of distributing child pornography.
Brinkin was sentenced Wednesday to a year’s detention, with six months served in county jail and six months home detention where he will have to wear an ankle monitor.
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Brinkin is well-known in San Francisco as being a vocal advocate for gay rights. He was a member of the Human Rights Commission for 22 years before retiring in 2010. In December of that year, the Board of Supervisors declared the first week of the month “Larry Brinkin Week” because of his work on gay rights issues.
Maybe Hillary will make him ‘Safe School Czar’ after he completes his sentence.
Update: Also, he gets to keep his city pension.
Yeah…and it also took HOW many years for the New York City Gay Pride Parade to finally kick NAMBLA out of the parade?
Geez! No wonder so many people think gays are sick. My partner of 38 years and I run from these gay
loonies!
May I ask, is the gay left or are any other organizations running to his defense? If they aren’t then this is a non-issue. Let the courts handle this. Too many try to conflate that NAMBLA is part of the Gay Rights Movement. It isn’t.
My guess is the gay activist left will sit on the sidelines and say nothing to support or condemn him. If they support him, it’s bad PR. If they condemn him, it’s conceding a point to their opponents.
Call me an insensitive straight guy, but that punishment needed to be more harsh.
If memory serves, Brinkin’s porn wasn’t just kiddie porn, but violent kiddie porn; children being damaged and possibly even maimed. His thrill was seeing what he called “n*gg** kids” (who were still toddlers) raped by white men.
He should be in prison for life. And, damn it, I want to see at least 50 arrests from his list of contacts!
This guy should have the decency to shoot himself.
I think it would do gays more good to demand Barch treatment for these cases.
Too many people unfairly view gay men as potential predators of their children-it only makes the association worse when a guy like this gets essentially a slap on the wrist.
He should be shunned by all Gay Rights groups.
The gay Left’s problem is that they have spent so long saying “I’m okay, I’m fine” about their sexuality that they are applying it to parts of themselves that are most certainly not okay. Unlike some people, I don’t rule out the possibility that homosexuality is a psychological disorder. The APA has all but admitted that the decision to take homosexuality out of the DSM was based more on political pressure than evidence, so the idea has to be at least entertained.
Now, before anybody clutches pearls, keep in mind that most people probably have some form of mild psychological disorder. A disorder is only a problem if it interferes with your life. My personal theory is that, if homosexuality is a disorder, then it has a chance to be comorbid with other disorders, like Addictive Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Gender Dysphoria, and depression. We all know the sort.
Fortunately, our understanding of mental disorders has come a long way since the days of poor Alan Turing. A person can have a mental disorder and still live a happy and productive life; we don’t ostracize a person with OCD for their behavior, we help them learn to manage their condition so that it doesn’t consume their lives. In the same way, some of us have learned to divorce our sexuality from some of the “symptoms,” and have embraced safe sex and monogamy. In this sense, the normalization of homosexuality can’t be taking gay culture as it is, but bringing it more in line with typical heterosexual behavior.
Again, I’m not sold that the negative aspects of the gay lifestyle are psychological in origin. They could certainly be cultural in origin, in which case, my point still stands.