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

Contents:

• MILO YIANNOPOULOS AND THE MYTH OF THE GAY PEDOPHILE
• MILO YIANNOPOULOS DPERATELY DECLAR HIMSELF ‘EX-GAY,’ SAYS HIS NEW MISSN IS CONVERSN THERAPY
• 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 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. 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.

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

”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. Both gay and straight people are attracted to other adults, while pedophil target children.

“The important pot is that many child molters nnot be meangfully scribed as homosexuals, heterosexuals, or bisexuals ( the ual sense of those terms) bee they are not really pable of a relatnship wh an adult man or woman, ” wr Gregory Herek, an emer profsor of social psychology at the Universy of California at Davis, on his scribed a number of studi which scientists tried to fd a lk between homosexualy and pedophilia—and me up short:Dr.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS RURRECTED A DANGERO OLD MYTH ABOUT GAY MEN AND PEDOPHILIA

The molter was a gay or lbian adult fewer than 1% of s which an adult molter uld be intified – only 2 of the 269 s (Jenny et al., 1994).

Some Canadian rearchers observed how homosexual and heterosexual adult men rpond to slis of mal and femal of var ag (child, pubcent, and mature adult). The rearchers found that homosexual mal rpond no more to male children than heterosexual mal rpond to female children (Frnd et al., 1989) ncln, Herek wr, “The empiril rearch do not show that gay or bisexual men are any more likely than heterosexual men to molt children. ”Neverthels, the child-moltatn qutn still mak s way to important policy discsns about gay rights.

As late as 2010, Fay Rearch Council print Tony Perks was quoted cg the lk between homosexualy and pedophilia as a reason not to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.