10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET
• "WE'RE DISGTED WH QUEERS, NOT FEARFUL OF THEM": THE INTERRELATNSHIPS AMONG DISGT, GAY MEN'S SEXUAL BEHAVR, AND HOMONEGATIVY
• WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.
• ALL OF THE 'EVIL AND DIRTY' THGS THAT THE GAYS DO
• I THK GAYS ARE DISGTG, BUT STILL TREAT THEM AS NORMAL PEOPLE. AM I A BAD PERSON?
• LARGE STUDY DIT DISGT SENSIVY IS LKED TO PREJUDICE TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN
• “GAY PRI” PARAS, NUDY, AND NIHILISM
• EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• DISGTG SMELLS E CREASED LIKG OF GAY MEN
• OKLAHOMA GOP SENATE NDIDATE RANTS AGAST “DISGTG” GAY MEN
•  MIKE SOLAN SEATTLE UNN PRINT SLAMS CAPOL HILL PRI BAN ON PS BIGOTED DISGTG GAY
• I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD
• TEA PARTY HERO CARL PALADO RAG AGAST 'DISGTG' GAY PRI PARAS
• DISGUSTING! GAY COUPLE BASHED OVER THE HEAD WH A CHAIR AT NEW YORK RTRANT!
• PARIS HILTON: GAYS ARE ‘DISGTG’
• ‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

GAY CULTURE HAS GROWN TOXIC WH UNCHECKED PRIVILEGE. IT'S TIME FOR TO RET

But even though the nversatns that muted this lumn for six weeks are nowhere close to beg over, I do feel like some thgs that me up durg that time of ntemplatn are worth sayg now — particularly to my fellow whe gay cis out more stori on LGBTQ+ ins and activistsHowever, the ghost of Larry Kramer very much remaed my own head as I ma my way through a Pri month unlike any other.

Followg a man his late 30s (based on Kramer himself) who is seekg out a lovg, long-term relatnship a sea of hedonism, the novel has a clear msage: gay men need to start lovg each other stead of beg so obssed wh gettg fucked up and (lerally and figuratively) fuckg each other.

"WE'RE DISGTED WH QUEERS, NOT FEARFUL OF THEM": THE INTERRELATNSHIPS AMONG DISGT, GAY MEN'S SEXUAL BEHAVR, AND HOMONEGATIVY

In mastream gay media, the phrase almost always refers to a fairly specific subset of the LGBTQ "muny" largely ma up of whe gay cis men — even though many of the battl won around queer rights were fought by people of lour, trans and genr-nonnformg folks, and queer women, and fact the morn Pri movement self was large part iated by Black trans women. If an imprsn of a monolhic "gay culture" fed by such a homogeneo mographic exists, is bee whe gay cis men have until very recently domated mastream reprentatn unr the LGBTQ umbrella and have, general, been hand a level of privilege the last that is wildly disproportnate to any other mographic unr said umbrella. Queeri5 pneerg LGBTQ Canadian films you n watch for ee right nowI've seen many of my fellow whe gay cis men seemgly rise to the ocsn by retweetg Black and Indigeno voic, gog to ralli and vowg to te themselv on how to tly be anti-racist (though how performative that is some s is unclear).

WHAT’S WRONG WH BEG “GAY”? HERE’S WHAT THEY DON’T TELL YOU -- AND ’S REALLY DISTURBG.

Many other notable diseas and trmas are associated, at elevated levels, wh the gay liftyle, cludg anal ncers, hepatis A and B, syphilis, gonorrhea, and Chlamydia (all of which are STDs), proctis, anal fistula, perirectal abscs, anal fissure, anorectal trma, anorectal ntence, rectal ulcers and lymphogranuloma venerm. Basilly, there are at least three documented lks between homosexualy and pedophilia: 1) the percentage of male homosexuals among nvicted child molters is 6-20 tim higher than the percentage of male homosexuals the general populatn, ditg a direct rrelatn between homosexualy and pedophilia; 2) the velopment of both homosexualy and pedophilia is strongly fluenced by some factor related to birth orr, ditg that homosexualy and pedophilia have a mon etlogy (i.

Although the AIDS epimic among male homosexuals prompted the creased practice of protected sex among gay men for a time, was not long before many of them threw utn to the wd and returned to their former practice of unprotected sex: “There were so many AIDS aths that survivg homosexuals panicked and voluntarily rced risky sexual practic. As a rult, HIV fectns and rectal gonorrhea soared among homosexuals…”; “At the same time, rapid progrs the velopment of new antiretroviral therapi rulted an announcement at the 11th World AIDS Conference Vanuver that batn therapy guid by viral load measurements uld potentially prevent HIV disease progrsn fely, if not cure the fectn outright. Sce 1991 and ntug through the middle of the first of the twentyfirst century, there has been a steady crease the rate of unprotected anal terurse among homosexuals who largely scribe themselv as “burned out” on safer sex or rigned to the fact that they will eher bee fected or fect their primary partners.

ALL OF THE 'EVIL AND DIRTY' THGS THAT THE GAYS DO

The differenc clu ferr performance school, a much lower graduatn rate, poor impulse ntrol, prsn, suicidal thought, requirement for mental health therapy, habatn, unfahfulns to sexual partners, ntractn of sexually transmted diseas, sexual moltatn, lower e levels, dnkenns, tobac and marijuana e and a very strong tenncy for the adult children of homosexuals to self-intify as homosexual.

I THK GAYS ARE DISGTG, BUT STILL TREAT THEM AS NORMAL PEOPLE. AM I A BAD PERSON?

While is not possible om the studi to nclu that the homosexual orientatn of the parents directly or directly ed most of the negative out found their children, the rults strongly suggt the possibily that homosexual parentg may not be equivalent to heterosexual parentg after all. ” [Aga, this uld be done by partners of any genr batn, but apparently Urban Dictnary has not yet heard of strap-ons; As a gay man, I also thk (and this is jt my opn) that this is somethg gay upl are more likely to do than straight upl bee dus are gross and also sometim we do hilar sh bed. Rotello also said, “A stranger to gay culture, unaware of the realy of AIDS, might believe om much of the gay prs that HIV fectn was a sort of elixir that produced high self-teem, solved long-standg psychologil and substance abe problems, and enhanced physil appearance … creatg the subnsc imprsn that fectn—the ‘penalty’ of unsafe sex—is really not so bad after all.

- Fay Rearch Council s accurate brief "Homosexualy and Child Abe" Yet gays "ntrol" the culture: Homosexual activists many ways, drive our culture, they ci what's gog to be a movie, we see all the portrayals, homosexuals are the most posively portrayed the movi and on televisn. - Bter Wilson, Amerin Fay Associatn Through a refully crafted, s-old propaganda mpaign, homosexuals have succsful st homosexuals - many of whom enjoy posns of fluence and affluence - as a disadvantage mory - Matt Barber, Unmaskg the "Gay" Agenda And while generatg all of this mayhem, gays still manage to fd time to have all sorts of md-bogglg wild sex wh multiple partners:Homosexual activists claim their liftyle, which some s clus thoands of sexual partners, should be sanctned, protected, and granted special rights by society.

LARGE STUDY DIT DISGT SENSIVY IS LKED TO PREJUDICE TOWARD GAY MEN AND LBIAN WOMEN

“In short, we found the same relatn as prev work — people who are more disgt sensive are also more prejudiced toward gay men and lbian women — and this relatn do not seem to differ much across untri, ” Van Lewen told study ntrolled for variabl such as polil iology, participant sex, and religsy. And what mak the suatn plited is the fact that, although many people hold the explic belief that ’s okay for gay people to be affectnate wh one another public (that is to say, if you were to ask them whether ’s okay for gay people to kiss public, they’d say of urse is), the same people neverthels hold implic negative attus on the subject. It was strsed to participants both ndns that the director knew the vio was likely to duce public French–kissg but this was not his primary goal makg the participants were then asked the followg qutns: (1) Did the director tentnally enurage homosexual men [or straight upl] to French–kiss public?

“GAY PRI” PARAS, NUDY, AND NIHILISM

Intrigugly, however, rponse to the first qutn, participants viewed the director’s actns as beg more tentnal when he enuraged gays to kiss public than peculiar fdg is terpreted relatn to the well-documented “Knobe Effect, ” a phenomenon first disvered by Yale philosopher Joshua Knobe whereby people are more cled to say that a behavr was performed tentnally when they regard that behavr as beg morally wrong. ) To Inbar and his thors, this ngo fdg regardg the director’s tentns therefore reflects a visceral, tuive and largely unnsc moral judgg of homosexualy by otherwise open- and fair-md what mak the thors’ posn even more pellg is the fdg that participants who were easily disgted (as measured by the Disgt Sensivy Sle, which asss dividual differenc aversn to thgs such as fec, rottg meat, bodily secretns, blood, gore and rps) were pecially likely to see the director’s actns as tentnal—but only the gay-kissg ndn.

However, bee the implic (often unnsc) moral judgments are often nflict wh social prcriptns of fairns and equaly for gay upl, such dividuals are ually pletely unaware of their own prejudiced specific lk between disgt sensivy and tuive attus toward gays, however, isn’t entirely unrstood at prent. 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.

EQUAL RIGHT TO KISS? WHY YOU MAY BE DISGTED BY GAY BEHAVR WHOUT KNOWG IT

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.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

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. 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.

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. 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).

DISGTG SMELLS E CREASED LIKG OF GAY MEN

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. A report prented by the Council on Scientific Affairs to the AMA Hoe of Delegat Interim Meetg wh regard to reparative (“ex-gay”) therapy noted that most of the emotnal disturbance gay men and lbians experience around their sexual inty is not based on physlogil , but rather on “a sense of alienatn an unacceptg environment. Mark Hatzenbuehler, a socmedil scienc profsor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia Universy, said that the data gathered the study suggts that “sexual mori livg muni wh high levels of anti-gay prejudice have creased risk of mortaly, pared to low-prejudice muni.

OKLAHOMA GOP SENATE NDIDATE RANTS AGAST “DISGTG” GAY MEN

Qazi Rahman, study -thor and a leadg scientist on human sexual orientatn, said: "This study puts ld water on any ncerns that we are lookg for a sgle 'gay gene' or a sgle environmental variable which uld be ed to 'select out' homosexualy — the factors which fluence sexual orientatn are plex. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics stated 1993 (updated 2004) that “homosexualy has existed most societi for as long as rerd scriptns of sexual beliefs and practic have been available” and that even at that time, “most scholars the field state that one’s sexual orientatn is not a choice … dividuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual. It's not jt about the right to want to be able to be open about who we are whout fear that our iends and fay will thk of want to be able to be public wh our signifint other whout the siways glanc and nscendg want to be able to accept who we are whout worryg that we won't be accepted by want to be treated like 's ridiculo to assume that a heterosexual is attracted to every member of the oppose sex, why should homosexuals be treated that way?

Southern’s vio, posted Augt 7, clus explic and disturbg clips of some of the worst excs of “Pri” paras: lewd dancg, simulated homosexual acts, a “twerkg” eight-year-old, and the shockg clip of the ltle girl watchg a man unrwear dancg while off-mera voic lgh and mock, “Oh, where is mom and dad?

On the first pot: “We spent forever, forever lghg at old nservativ who would go on rants about the slippery slope of legislatg homosexual marriage, and now we’re here the current year wh state-enforced pronouns and 52-year-old dads abandong their fay and children to bee six-year-old girls, ” Southern says. “As liberals s around and endorse and create pri paras that endorse and celebrate twerkg 8-year-olds gimp gear and fend the ia of genr reassignment surgery for children, fend the ia of pedophilia, fend the ia of state enforced pronouns and all of this ridiculo overreach, they are dog more for homophobia than Islam and the far-right ever uld, ” says Southern.

 MIKE SOLAN SEATTLE UNN PRINT SLAMS CAPOL HILL PRI BAN ON PS BIGOTED DISGTG GAY

Southern, who left The Rebel March, has 305, 000 Twter followers, is the thor of a btsellg book, “Barbarians: How The Baby Boomers, Immigratn and Islam Screwed My Generatn, ” has appeared on several proment TV talk shows, cludg the Rub Report, hosted by openly homosexual Dave Rub, and is endorsed by Ann Coulter.

Furthermore, given that signifint relatnships have been unvered between disgt sensivy and attus toward homosexualy, and that moral foundatns have been found to be closely lked to disgt sensivy and attus toward homosexualy, is reasonable to hypothize that moral foundatns (pecially sancty) may mediate the relatnship between disgt sensivy and attus toward homosexualy. (2018) suggted that negative attus toward gay men may be rived om four wily held beliefs: (1) gay men’s engagement anal terurse is filthy; (2) gay men have been lked to AIDS; (3) gay men threaten tradnal sexual moraly; and (4) gay men monstrate lack of pury on the basis of sacred scripture.

I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD

Given that explic attus toward gay men and lbians are ually more posive than implic attus (Breen and Karpski, 2013), future rearch should exame the mediatg role of moral foundatns on the relatnship between disgt and implic attus toward homosexuals, or other groups that threaten tradnal sex-related moraly. William Friedk had to cut a legendary 40 mut of footage om “Cisg” before uld get a pass om the MPAA, but that was mostly graphic sexualy and not the non-stop strg of slurs and rtoonish pictns of what the filmmakers tried to emphasize was a look at one subset of gay culture, but not the entire culture.

There's ltle doubt that the hostile reactns om characters the film are perd-appropriate and shouldn't be taken as the POV of the film, but the film's POV on both the leather bar subculture, and on any gay characters who exist outsi the subculture ss somewhere between disgted and horrified.

TEA PARTY HERO CARL PALADO RAG AGAST 'DISGTG' GAY PRI PARAS

But 'd be equally silly to ny that a goodly percentage of the 115 precedg mut — Y, this movie is obscenely long — are mostly about Kev Jam and Adam Sandler's characters makg clear that orr for Chuck and Larry to do some silly thg volvg life surance, they have to lower themselv the most huiatg way they n image, by pretendg to be a gay uple.

DISGUSTING! GAY COUPLE BASHED OVER THE HEAD WH A CHAIR AT NEW YORK RTRANT!

Gawker did a great mashup of homophobic asis Michael Bay films 2014, cludg an extend “gay panic” scene “Bad Boys II” where Mart Lawrence and Will Smh realize that their nversatn about Lawrence's character beg shot the butt — which sounds like anal sex out of ntext (hilar! "SPOG also nmns the strongt language possible any enty volved schlg events for Seattle’s Gay Pri Week that has already cid to ban Seattle Police officers om participatg", addg that banng Seattle Police om pri is "disgtg, bigoted, discrimatory and ntradicts our muny’s betiful clive LGBTQ msage.

Buffalo bomb-thrower Carl Palado brand gay pri paras "disgtg" on Monday - and took a shot at rival Andrew Cuomo for brgg his dghters to Tea Party blowhard sisted he has nothg agast homosexuals, he jt don't want himself or children exposed to their said he was appalled by havg seen Toronto gay pri para marchers wearg "ltle Speedos and they grd agast each other. "He lled "absolutely spible" the recent attacks the Bronx by ne gang members on a gay man and two gay lnaire bsman said his nephew is gay - and that he'd actively hire gays for his admistratn if elected if he believ beg gay is a choice, Palado admted, "I've had difficulty wh that.... Palado was smacked around for his homosexual tira by gay rights groups and Democrats participatg the para - and he later took a few shots om fellow Mayor Rudy Giuliani, speakg California, lled Palado's rants "highly offensive" and lled on him to apologize, GOP's attorney general ndidate, Dan Donovan, and ntroller hopeful, Harry Wilson, sharply cricized Palado's statements on homosexualy.

Among the people ad om jectg silin were Dovak who died last November, a Miami trans woman who died om jectns to her butt (Oneal Ron Morris, the woman who jected her, was sentenced to 10 years for practicg medice whout a license), and last month, Tumblr gay celebry Tank Hafertepen — the partner of the man Dovak allegedly went to for advice — died of a lung hemorrhage ed by, part, silin jectn syndrome, acrdg to his ath certifite obtaed by Rollg Stone. While those events have been gog full steam ahead, so has the porn circu for gay porn, wh the Str8UpGayPorn Awards, Cybersocket Web Awards, and the GayVNs all havg recently taken place -- the Grabby's, which are referred to as the "Goln Glob of Gay Porn, " happen May Chigo, takg place on the same weekend as Internatnal Mr.

PARIS HILTON: GAYS ARE ‘DISGTG’

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I bated whether to engage a post that is jt as disturbg as the tle suggts, but after speakg wh an edor and several wrers at The Gospel Coaln, as well as some of my gay and lbian iends, I’ve cid ’s important to offer an alternative to the attu prented this post and, perhaps more importantly, to explore/discs how Christians ought to rpond when we enunter homophobia our own fah muni.

‘PUMPG’ IS DANGERO NEW FAD AMONG GAY MEN

” Meanwhile, a source poted out to Gothamist that Fieri’s late sister was homosexual and that his longtime bs partner and close iend is also now, only time will tell how the Tmp photos will affect Fieri’s brand: Will this tank the goodwill he built durg the panmic, or n he ri out by keepg quiet?