10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• PREDATORY GAY
• THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?
• THE PREDATORY PART OF GAY CULTURE
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• LGB ALLIANCE FOUNR SAYS THERE SHOULDN’T BE LGBT CLUBS SCHOOLS BEE OF ‘PREDATORY GAY TEACHERS’
• CABET MISTER SAYS ‘PREDATORY’ MPS TARGETG YOUNG GAY MEN IS A ‘REAL PROBLEM’
• AGEG PREDATORS AND ASEXUAL OLD QUEENS: CHALLENGG STEREOTYP OF CROSS-GENERATNAL GAY RELATNSHIPS BEGNERS AND GERONTOPHILIA

PREDATORY GAY

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The Dwayne Johnson and Kev Hart (a top repeat offenr this annual survey) buddy edy is scribed as “a near two-hour gay panic joke that reli on the long-nng homophobic ‘sissy’ stereotype for most of the lm’s tend punchl.

THE GAY ONE OM GLEE – POSIVE ROLE MOL OR DANGERO CLICHé?

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In seri one, Kurt relentlsly pursued his straight classmate Fn, a dangero storyle that rerced to a young dience that gay men are predatory, won't take no for an answer and will do anythg to sce any straight boy sight. The bad-taste footage om a BBC documentary featur the edian a Ltle Bra stage show clip which n still be seen on YouTube shows Walliams as predatory gay former children's entertaer 'D Kaye' gropg three mal said to be aged 16-18 on stage a game of 'hi the ssage' crge-worthy vio featur him vg the dience members on stage where he simulat buggery and appeared to kiss their bare buttocks.

THE PREDATORY PART OF GAY CULTURE

Even though Walliams supports the LGBT+ muny, his pictn plays to the hands of those who wrongly equate homosexualy wh the exploatn of young people, ' he clip was filmed as part of a BBC documentary narrated by ic Rob Brydon, lled Ltle Bra Down Unr, which followed the show's tour of Atralia 2007. Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society. But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia.

Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people. Others have ced a group lled the Amerin College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) to claim, as Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council did November 2010, that "the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a [moltatn] danger to children. Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men.

The Amerin Amy of Child & Adolcent Psychiatry affirmed 2013 that “[c]urrent rearch shows that children wh gay and lbian parents do not differ om children wh heterosexual parents their emotnal velopment or their relatnships wh peers and adults” and they are “not more likely than children of heterosexual parents to velop emotnal or behavral problems. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics (AAP) a 2002 policy statement clared: "A growg body of scientific lerature monstrat that children who grow up wh one or two gay and/or lbian parents fare as well emotnal, gnive, social, and sexual functng as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

” Schumm, who has also argued that lbian relatnships are unstable, has ti to discreded psychologist and anti-LGBT fabulist Pl Cameron, the thor of numero pletely basels “studi” about the alleged evils of homosexualy. The Amerin Psychiatric Associatn noted a 2000 fact sheet available on the Associatn of Gay and Lbian Psychiatrists, that alg wh gay, lbian and bisexual issu, that sexual abe do not appear to be any more prevalent among children who grow up and intify as gay, lbian or bisexual than children who grow up and intify as heterosexual.

LGB ALLIANCE FOUNR SAYS THERE SHOULDN’T BE LGBT CLUBS SCHOOLS BEE OF ‘PREDATORY GAY TEACHERS’

Siarly, the Natnal Organizatn on Male Sexual Victimizatn not on s webse that "experts the human sexualy field do not believe that premature sexual experienc play a signifint role late adolcent or adult sexual orientatn" and add that 's unlikely that anyone n make another person gay or heterosexual.

CABET MISTER SAYS ‘PREDATORY’ MPS TARGETG YOUNG GAY MEN IS A ‘REAL PROBLEM’

Anti-LGBT anizatns, seekg to promote heterosexualy as the healthier "choice, " often offer up the purportedly shorter life spans and poorer physil and mental health of gays and lbians as reasons why they shouldn't be allowed to adopt or foster children. On the basis of the same obuari, Cameron also claimed that gay men are 18 tim more likely to die r accints than heterosexuals, 22 tim more likely to die of heart attacks than wh, and 11 tim more likely than blacks to die of the same e. Anti-LGBT anizatns have also tried to support this claim by distortg the work of legimate scholars, like a 1997 study nducted by a Canadian team of rearchers that alt wh gay and bisexual men livg Vanuver the late 1980s and early 1990s.

AGEG PREDATORS AND ASEXUAL OLD QUEENS: CHALLENGG STEREOTYP OF CROSS-GENERATNAL GAY RELATNSHIPS BEGNERS AND GERONTOPHILIA

Anti-gay activists, who have long opposed addg LGBT people to those protected by hate crime legislatn, have repeatedly claimed that such laws would lead to the jailg of relig figur who preach agast homosexualy — part of a bid to ga the backg of the broar relig muny for their posn. Anti-gay groups have been adamantly opposed to allowg gay men and lbians to serve openly the armed forc, not only bee of their purported fear that bat reads will be unrmed, but bee the ary has long been nsired the purt merocracy Ameri (the armed forc were succsfully racially tegrated long before Amerin civil society, for example).

At the same time, gays and lbians have served openly for years the armed forc of 25 untri (as of 2010), cludg Bra, Israel, South Ai, Canada and Atralia, acrdg to a report released by the Palm Center, a policy thk tank at the Universy of California at Santa Barbara. Dpe the fact that gay men and lbians have been servg openly the ary sce September 2011, anti-LGBT groups ntue to claim that openly gay personnel are g problems the ary, cludg claims of sexual abe by gay and lbian soldiers of straight soldiers.

Though is te that LGBT people tend to suffer higher rat of anxiety, prsn, and prsn-related illns and behavrs like alhol and dg abe than the general populatn, that is due to the historil social stigmatizatn of homosexualy and vlence directed at LGBT people, not bee of homosexualy self.