# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-thorstad
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:34:50.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-thorstad"
name: "David Thorstad"
slug: "david-thorstad"
description: "David Thorstad was an American political activist who co-founded or ran a number of gay rights groups in the 1970s, including as a former president of New York's Gay Activists Alliance. He later engaged in pro-pedophilia and pederasty activism with the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), of which he was a founding member."
tagline: "American activist and historian"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/David_Thorstad.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-06-06"
deathDate: "2021-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.77
  momentum:             4.005563282336577
  historical:           6.183533333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B8%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "டேவிட் தோர்ஸ்டாத்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AB%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "ديفيد ثورستاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad"
    title: "David Thorstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad"
    title: "David Thorstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad"
    title: "David Thorstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad"
    title: "David Thorstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Thorstad"
    title: "David Thorstad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5240419"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump