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Article: The model Boy Scout. (James Dale)(includes a related article on Boy Scout pro-gay activist Steven Cozza)(Interview)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- April 14, 1998
- Author:
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Sitting across from James Dale, you can't help feeling you are in the presence of an archetypal Boy Scout. Earnest, polite, handsome, charismatic, and well-spoken are all words that immediately spring to mind.
And, indeed, the 27-year-old Dale spent 12 years of his life tirelessly serving the Boy Scouts of America, eventually rising to the rank of assistant scoutmaster until the organization expelled him in 1990 after learning he was gay. For the past eight years, Dale has turned the same moral righteousness that he learned from the Scouts against the group in court.
Initially Dale lost his case to a judge who called him a "sodomite." But on March 2 a ...