Milo Yiannopoulos rurrected a dangero old myth about gay men and pedophilia

MILO YIANNOPOULOS AND THE MYTH OF THE GAY PEDOPHILE

The journalist’s ments suggt gay men enjoy sex wh children—an ia that has been wily bunked. * filip inaros gay *

The journalist’s ments suggt gay men enjoy sex wh children—an ia that has been wily Miami 1977, monstrators rry signs of Ana Bryant, send om the left, a sger and anti-gay activist who promoted the ia that gay people are a threat to children. ”In the vio, a clip of an old podst episo that was tweeted this weekend by the group Reagan Battaln, Yiannopoulos says he isn’t fendg pedophilia, before addg that “ the gay world, some of the most enrichg... @Mschlapp — The Reagan Battaln (@ReaganBattaln) Febary 20, 2017Among the many reasons Yiannopoulos’s ments are beg cricized, as Vox’s German Lopez pots out, is that he lends support to a claim, ma by some anti-gay activists, that many gay men harbor a secret sire to molt children.

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For example, a 2002 document that’s still live on the webse of the Fay Rearch Council reads that “Male homosexuals m a disproportnate number of child sex abe s.

” It lls those who don’t acknowledge this fact “homosexual apologists. ”The spected (and wily bunked) lk to child moltatn has been ed to suggt that gay people shouldn’t be allowed to work wh children.

In 2005, jt 49 percent of poll rponnts told Gallup they thk gay people should be allowed to be clergy members, and jt 54 percent said they should be elementary-school to the 1970s, gays the U.

The thk-of-the-children angle, meanwhile, was spearhead by Ana Bryant, a Christian sger who succsfully lobbied for the repeal of a 1977 Miami ordance barrg anti-gay discrimatn.

Bryant claimed that if gays were granted equal stat society, they would molt children schools or rec them to their liftyle, acrdg to news reports at the time. “The ordance ndon immoraly and discrimat agast my children’s rights to grow up a healthy, cent muny, ” Bryant told reporters that name of Bryant’s advocy anizatn unrsred her pot: Save Our cint is now nsired, by some, to be the begng of anized, nservative-Christian opposn to gay rights.

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MILO YIANNOPOULOS AND THE MYTH OF THE GAY PEDOPHILE

MILO YIANNOPOULOS DPERATELY DECLAR HIMSELF ‘EX-GAY,’ SAYS HIS NEW MISSN IS CONVERSN THERAPY