Lhuania's 'gay propaganda' law looms over fight for same-sex unns | Rters

Contents:

• DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
• PROPAGANDA (FECHADO)NOTTGHAMMENUHOTéISBARRASMAPA GAYREO UNIDO · SNA E CZEIROÍNDICE DO REO UNIDOPROPAGANDA (CLOSED)
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• EXGAY CALLG
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• RSIAN LAWMAKERS VOTE TO TIGHTEN BAN ON ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’
• LHUANIA'S 'GAY PROPAGANDA' LAW LOOMS OVER FIGHT FOR SAME-SEX UNNS

DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS

Every Pri month, nsumers see their favore brands add rabow strip to their logos, fly flags om their headquarters buildgs and add attractive gay and lbian upl to their ads.

PROPAGANDA (FECHADO)NOTTGHAMMENUHOTéISBARRASMAPA GAYREO UNIDO · SNA E CZEIROÍNDICE DO REO UNIDOPROPAGANDA (CLOSED)

All of them voted to nfirm anti-gay members of the Tmp bet, voted to ny healthre to transgenr troops, and wouldn't sponsor or -sponsor any legislatn support of LGBTQ rights.

It is unclear how many of the men publicly or privately intified as gay or were part of gay muni and works that had been tablished Germany before the Nazi rise to power.

In ntrast, the work of gay men that veloped around thor Adolf Brand and his anizatn Gemeschaft r Eigenen (The Communy of Kdred Spirs) took a different approach. Gay newspapers and journals, such as Die Frndschaft (Friendship) and Der Eigene (translated varly, but this ntext implyg “his own man”), ntributed to the growth of gay works. 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).

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

Unverg the histori of gay men durg the Nazi era was difficult for much of the twentieth century bee of ntued prejudice agast same-sex sexualy and the ongog enforcement of Paragraph 175. For the first time, gay men who had suffered at the hands of the Nazis beme eligible for moary pensatn om the German ernment for jtic perpetrated agast them. 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.

EXGAY CALLG

We observe how gay activists the Amerin Psychologil Associatn who are uned Divisn 44 (the “LGBT” sectn) have ed gnive dissonance to lu dienc to ncludg that therapy for unwanted same-sex attractns is highly unsirable, harmful even. The rear n eher alter gnn #1 to make sound as follows: ‘no therapy is appropriate for homosexualy bee is normal’ or he n alter gnn #2 to make sound: ‘there are distct mental or velopmental disorrs to be found spe of what this Task Force sets out to assert and wre. He liberately let them thk for example “crash occurs at 45 km/hour”, the Task Force liberately lets you thk “homosexualy has been proven to be merely a normal variant, therefore therapy nnot possibly be appropriate”.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

“When asssg the appropriatens of therapy, to what extent is homosexual behavr nsistently associated wh forms of ternal disfort, and to what extent n unrlyg ternal be intified and nsired to be problems worth tacklg, if they exist at all. Durg the procs of “g out gay” which is an iatn procs to a newly found imagary tribe, or “LGBT-muny”, we see how LGBT activists liberately e gnive dissonance.

Unr the circumstanc, acrdg to the gnive dissonance theory, the dividual will change his attu about his/her group membership and will not pla about the shallowns, empts, falsens or major health hazards of the gay inty. The grassroots group Massristance has published an outstandg document 2018 on the darker si of the ‘gay g-out’ procs terms Health-hazards (download).

RSIAN LAWMAKERS VOTE TO TIGHTEN BAN ON ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’

The mechanism is actively utilized by the gay members of Divisn 44 of the Amerin Psychologil Associatn who are everywhere to be found advisory mte of other anizatns. In 2019, they even generoly advised lay and gay activists how to fool Amazon to letg all books by Nilosi and others, as long as the letn self is not done unr their profsnal name. In an op-ed (opn article) the New York Tim January 2018, he prented gnive dissonance the tle of his say: “I was tortured Gay Conversn Therapy, and ’s still legal 41 stat”.

The aim of radil gay-lib is to prevent younger generatns om fdg opposg thoughts and facts, thereby makg sure that the unsubstantiated world-view of APA Divisn 44 will reign supreme. 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.

For the former Florida bety queen and her Save Our Children group, was the alleged plans of gay men and lbians to "rec" schools that provid the fodr for their csa. 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.

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

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. 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.

Dpe havg been bunked repeatedly and very publicly, Cameron's work is still wily relied upon by anti-gay anizatns, although many no longer quote him by name. 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.