10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• "O BOTICáR" é CRIDO NAS RES SOCIAIS APóS ERCIAL SAIS GAYS
• A MPANHA DO BOTICáR E OS GAYS. CUIDADO! NEM TUDO O QUE é REACNáR STUMA PARECER REACNáR!
• PROPAGANDA O BOTICáR GAYS GERA POLêMI E CHEGA AO CONAR
• VEJA MARS QUE Já LANçARAM PROPAGANDAS SAIS GAYS
• RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS
• FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• LHUANIA'S 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW LOOMS OVER FIGHT FOR SAME-SEX UNNS
• RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

"O BOTICáR" é CRIDO NAS RES SOCIAIS APóS ERCIAL SAIS GAYS

A mpanha da mar smétis "O Boticár" que mistura sais heterossexuais e gays tá ando polêmi na vío do ercial no Youtube, até a noe sta segunda-feira (1º) a quantida "não curtir" passava 120 , o dobro das avaliaçõ posivas (pou mais 60 ). A maria afirmou que vai parar nsumir produtos da dos entárs registrados afirma que a mpanha vai enaquecer a mar entre evangélis:"Achei ridículo e srpeoso a nova Campanha da Boticár que timula o homossexualismo, o se não bastasse todos os ataqu que a família tradicnal vem soendo através das novelas da Globo, polítis o Jean Wyllys, eis que surge a Boticár para mentar as fileiras aonta para a família brasileira, se fosse para rpear a proporcnalida, por que lor 02 sais gays e 02 sais héteros, e isso em qualquer horár, tenhamos filhos ou não! Quando um publicár ci fazer uma peça propaganda sobre uma mar popular, no veículo unição mais peração nos lar brasileiros, mostrando cenas relacnamento gay, vamos ser claros: ele tá querendo, o diz a menada, “ar”.

A mpanha Dia dos Namorados do Boticár que mostra diferent tipos sais, heterossexuais e homossexuais, trondo prent, virou alvo prottos e ameaça boite à mar nas res sociais e até núncia ao Conar (Conselho Nacnal Autorregulamentação Publicária). No filme 60 segundos são mostrados um sal idosos, um bran e uma negra, uma gtante e s marido, um homem em uma ira rodas e uma mulher sentada em s lo e também um sal homossexuais do sexo femo. Rsian lawmakers agreed to toughen the untry’s discrimatory law agast so-lled same-sex “propaganda, ” movg to ban all Rsians om promotg or “praisg” homosexual relatnships or publicly suggtg that they are “normal.

“Above all, by adoptg such laws the urt found that the thori had rerced stigma and prejudice and enuraged homophobia, which was patible wh the valu – of equaly, pluralism and tolerance – of a mocratic society, ” the urt document said. BUCHAREST -- Romania is nsirg a bill that would ban mors om beg exposed to so-lled "gay propaganda" schools and public life, spe warngs om rights groups that would "fuel Rsian propaganda and disrmatn mpaigns" and restate censorship the former munist untry.

A MPANHA DO BOTICáR E OS GAYS. CUIDADO! NEM TUDO O QUE é REACNáR STUMA PARECER REACNáR!

"If a child is on the street and se a Pri march, or if he or she se a story about gay issu on televisn, or watch a film approved by the Romanian thori that has LGBT issu, " the would all be illegal unr the law, Ion-Rotar said. One article of the proposed law says that a child "has the right to be protected agast the spreadg of ntent through any means about the viatn om sex which is tablished at birth (by a doctor) or the popularizatn of sex change or homosexualy.

In Romania, marriage and civil partnerships for same-sex upl are already banned, but supporters of the referendum hoped that by changg the wordg of the nstutn to say that marriage uld only be between a man and a woman rather than "partners, " as currently stands, they would prevent gay marriage om ever beg enshred law. BUCHAREST, April 29 (Rters) - Romanian human rights groups on Friday nmned a bill approved by the Senate which bans so-lled gay propaganda schools, sayg would legimise discrimatn agast the LGBT muny, mirrorg measur seen Hungary and groups urged parliament's lower hoe, which has the fal say, to reject the bill that bans the e of materials seen as promotg homosexualy and genr change at schools. Fally, 1936 SS lear and Chief of the German Police Herich Himmler tablished the Reich Central Office for the Combatg of Homosexualy and Abortn (Reichszentrale zur Bekämpfung r Homosexualät und r Abtreibung).

A few years later, May 2008, the Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted unr Nazism (Denkmal für die im Natnalsozialism verfolgten Homosexuellen) was unveiled nearby Tiergarten park central Berl.

PROPAGANDA O BOTICáR GAYS GERA POLêMI E CHEGA AO CONAR

VILNIUS (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - As the target of nstant homophobic abe as a teenager, Rimas Prokopovici rarely heard anythg posive about gay people when he was growg up a provcial cy northern many young LGBT+ people the Baltic state, a member of the European Unn sce 2004, he blam the untry’s “gay propaganda” the 2009 legislatn has not been enforced recent years, LGBT+ rights mpaigners say legimis homophobic attus, curbs ee speech and is hamperg their fight for same-sex civil partnerships to be legalised.

I was bullied a lot, ” he told the Thomson Rters Foundatn the pal, Vilni, where he studi molecular the “gay propaganda” law by crics, the Lhuanian legislatn bans sharg rmatn wh unr-18s that “exprs ntempt for fay valu (or) enurag... A ernment spokperson uld not immediately be reached to ment on the European urt applitn or the stat of the law, which officials have said has not been implemented sce 2014 and was beg discsed wh LGBT+ year, Hungary was nmned by the European Unn for banng the dissematn of ntent emed to promote “genr change and homosexualy” to unr-18s, while Rsia’s 2013 “gay propaganda” law regularly mak ternatnal headl. ‘CHILLING EFFECT’In Vilni, LGBT+ stunt activists said they also thought the 2009 law had ntributed to the wispread homophobia they enuntered when growg up, makg harr to e to terms wh their genr inty and sexualy.

VEJA MARS QUE Já LANçARAM PROPAGANDAS SAIS GAYS

Nobody talks about or talks about only negatively, ” Balciunae said, durg a party to celebrate the LGBT+ society’s third other ex-Soviet Baltic stat, Lhuania crimalised gay sex the early 1990s on beg pennt, but at the same time banned same-sex marriage by fg marriage as solely between a man and a woman s 1992 natn of 2. Long-lastg tradns and fay valu, ” he for the untry’s LGBT+ muny ntu to have a “chillg effect” on their stggle for equal rights, cludg the ph for civil unns, said Tomas Raskevici, the first Lhuanian MP to e out as gay before standg for parliament.

”(The story has been refiled to clarify par 24 that Raskevici was the first to e out as gay before standg for parliament)Reportg by Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage; Edg by Helen Popper and Hugo Greenhalgh. MOSCOW -- A new law banng "homosexual propaganda" Rsia is raisg ncerns about the state of human rights a untry already notor for silencg legislatn is vague but s tent is clear: It is now "illegal to spread rmatn about non-tradnal sexual behavr" to mors (unr 18), and there are hefty f for those who disobey. Although was lifted after the fall of the Soviet Unn, homophobia still ns rights march are routely broken up and scen of police tag activists, sometim before monstratns even beg, are monplace.

"Many gay people want to immigrate and they ask me to help [them] get polil asylum, fearg for their safety, " he May, a 23-year old man was allegedly murred the cy of Volgograd on the Victory Day holiday. In June, Rsian vtigators said another man Kamchatka was also murred bee he was officers watch gay rights activists kiss near the State Duma, Rsia's lower parliament chamber, Mosw, Rsia, on June 11, 2013. Protters attempted to rally outsi the Rsian State Duma before a fal vote on the bill banngIvan Sekretarev / APAs for the new law, a whoppg 88 percent of the natn supports , even though most have never seen such "homosexual propaganda, " the state-owned All Rsian Center for Public Opn reported.

RSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO TOUGHEN ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW, BANNG ALL ADULTS OM ‘PROMOTG’ SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS

Put has embraced the Rsian Orthodox Church, and his ernment has troduced var social programs to promote young upl havg more a week after the "propaganda" law was passed, Put phed through another law banng gay foreign upl om adoptg Rsian children.

FIRST RSIA, THEN HUNGARY, NOW ROMANIA IS CONSIRG A 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW 

A monstrator holds up a picture pictg Rsian Print Vladimir Put wh make-up durg a prott by the gay muny Amsterdam on April 8, Toala Oivar / RtersAnd wh one year until the Sochi 2014 Wter Olympics, Human Rights Watch urged the Internatnal Olympic Commtee "to send a clear signal to Rsian thori that discrimatn of people based on their sexual orientatn and genr inty is sharply at odds wh Rsia's human rights and Olympic mments. "Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT advocy group, sent a letter to NBC Universal, the exclive broadster of the Olympics and owner of, askg the work to highlight the anti-gay laws Rsia durg verage of the gam.

Rsia's parliament has unanimoly passed a feral law banng gay "propaganda" amid a Kreml ph to enshre eply nservative valu that crics say has already led to a sharp crease anti-gay law passed 436-0 on Tuday, wh jt one puty abstag om votg on the bill, which bans the spreadg of "propaganda of non-tradnal sexual relatns" among law effect mak illegal to equate straight and gay relatnships, as well as the distributn of material on gay rights.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Mut after passg the anti-gay legislatn, the Duma also approved a new law allowg jail sentenc of up to three years for "offendg relig feelgs", an iative lnched the wake of the trial agast the anti-Kreml punk band Psy two laws were wily cricised by Rsia's margalised liberal and human rights muni and e amid a wir crackdown agast pennt civil activy the untry. Put, who often mak a show of his fah, has creasgly lled upon the church to fill his own iologil vacuum followg a ntted printial electn last year, acpanied by unprecented protts agast se agast Psy Rt – which three members were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by relig hatred" after performg an anti-Put anthem si a Mosw church – was wily seen as the lnch of an ultra-nservative 's anti-gay law, whose text was softened to remove explic referrals to "homosexual propaganda", troduc f of up to 100, 000 roubl (£1, 975) for dividuals who have ed the media or ter to promote "non-tradnal relatns".

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. The fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori.

LHUANIA'S 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW LOOMS OVER FIGHT FOR SAME-SEX UNNS

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.

RSIA PASS LAW BANNG GAY 'PROPAGANDA'

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.

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. Siarly, the Child Welfare League of Ameri's official posn wh regard to same-sex parents is that "lbian, gay, and bisexual parents are as well-sued to raise children as their heterosexual unterparts.

A 2013 prelimary study Atralia found that the children of lbian and gay parents are not only thrivg, but may actually have better overall health and higher rat of fay hn than heterosexual fai. A si effect of this argument is the monizatn of parents of gay men and lbians, who are led to wonr if they failed to protect a child agast sexual abe or failed as role mols some important way.