10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• ANTI GAY QUOT
• THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• THE 10 MOST ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS FROM THE REPUBLIN NOMEE FOR LT. GOVERNOR OF VIRGIA
• 7. ON MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH STEPPG DOWN BEE OF HIS SUPPORT FOR PROPOSN 8
• ANTI GAY QUOT & SAYGS
• ANTIGAY
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• SYNONYMS FOR ANTI GAY
• ANTI-GAY SLOGAN

ANTI GAY QUOT

Maybe they should terrogate their own prient terts other people’s love, get at the root and figure out why the ia of male timacy ril the past few weeks, several rappers have ma sensive — or full-on homophobic — statements about gay people. About a week after DaBaby’s rant, Boosie Badazz, a hip-hop artist who me up the 1990s, went after Lil Nas X, one of the rare rappers who are openly, unapologetilly, explosns-of-glter gay, threateng to asslt me say first that the untry has quickly evolved on the acceptance of gayns, and that clus an evolutn among Black people. I have always ntend that all of the -isms and -phobias are s, that a society that creat a hierarchy of humany wh whe, straight, cisgenr men at the apex, every person who is not whe or straight or cisgenr or male gets assigned a lower orr of that sense, racism and sexism, homophobia and transphobia all branch om the same one bias n fluence and amplify a society that treats racism as a sport, which each racial group is jockeyg agast the others, all of them shadowed by a culture of whe supremacy laced wh misogyny, anythg that rc your percentage of straight mal or “femiz” them is seen as weakeng the Black people bee agents agast Black power and Black liberatn, a weight on the this dulent this is adopted, traracial terror picks up where terracial terror left off.

It is not the gay Black person who be an stment of a whe supremacist attack on Black masculy; is the Black homophobe who be the stment of opprsn agast his own is important to pot out that the racist and the homophobe often employ the same tactics.

Homophob often e the same tactic, claimg that they are protectg children om is precisely the fense Boosie Badazz ed when appearg on “The Breakfast Club” rad show, at one pot seemgly exprsg a fear that if rappers didn’t speak out agast certa exprsns of gayns, an entire generatn of children uld be aga, to clarify: There is no amount of exposure that n make a straight man prefer a penis or a gay one prefer a vaga.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

Sexual attractn and sexualy jt don’t work that this simplistic notn of sexualy oms is that there are also gay children who have known they were different for as long as they have known anythg, and those children serve reprentatn and visibily; they need to know that there is nothg wrong, broken or evil about them, so that they, too, n feel normal and seen. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups like Foc on the Fay morate their views, a hard re of smaller groups, most of them religly motivated, have ntued to pump out monizg propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual mori. The book mak a seri of claims that virtually no ser historian agre wh: that Hler was gay, that “the Nazi Party was entirely ntrolled by aristic homosexuals, ” and that gays were pecially selected for the SS bee of their nate btaly.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

Takg a page om the anti-gay fabulist Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), Fischer claimed a blog post last May 27 that “[h]omosexualy gave Adolph Hler, and homosexuals the ary gave the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war mache and 6 ln ad Jews. A one-time reporter for the nservative Washgton Tim, LaBarbera has been an energetic mpaigner agast “the radil homosexual agenda” sce at least 1993, when he lnched The Lambda Report, which claimed to do first-hand reportg to expose s gay enemi. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet.

It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag. Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai.

” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance. In 2002, before jog CRM, Knight wrote that gay marriage “entic children to experiment wh homosexualy” and that acceptg homosexualy leads to “a loss of stabily muni, wh a rise crime, sexually transmted diseas and other social pathologi. Both Dailey and Sprigg have phed false accatns lkg gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has wrten that most men who engage same-sex child moltatn “intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, ” and Dailey and Sprigg voted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Gettg It Straight to siar material.

THE 10 MOST ANTI-GAY STATEMENTS FROM THE REPUBLIN NOMEE FOR LT. GOVERNOR OF VIRGIA

In a 1999 publitn (Homosexual Behavr and Pedophilia) that has sce disappeared om s webse, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of nsent laws and to eventually regnize pedophil as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual orr, ” acrdg to unrefuted rearch by AMERICAblog. 30, 2010, bate on MSNBC’s “Hardball wh Chris Matthews” between Perks and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, Perks fend FRC’s associatn of gay men wh pedophilia, sayg: “If you look at the Amerin College of Pediatricians, they say the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a danger to children. ” AMERICAblog also reported that then-FRC official Yvette Cantu, an terview published on Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy’s webse, said, “If they [gays and lbians] had children, what would happen when they were too by havg their sex parti?

7. ON MOZILLA CEO BRENDAN EICH STEPPG DOWN BEE OF HIS SUPPORT FOR PROPOSN 8

Started 1987 by psychologist Pl Cameron, the Fay Rearch Instute (FRI) has bee the anti-gay movement’s ma source for what Cameron claims is “cuttg-edge rearch” — but is, fact, pletely discreded junk science phed out by a man who has been nmned by three profsnal anizatns.

In 1985, the Amerin Soclogil Associatn adopted a rolutn sayg Cameron “has nsistently misterpreted and misreprented soclogil rearch on sexualy” and “repeatedly mpaigned for the abrogatn of the civil rights of lbians and gay men”; the followg year, the same group formally nmned Cameron for that misreprentatn of rearch. They clu the Amerin Fay Associatn, Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, Concerned Women for Ameri, Coral Ridge Mistri, the Fay Rearch Council (see above for all five) and, until recently, the Illois Fay Instute (see below).

ANTI GAY QUOT & SAYGS

In 2006, then-Executive Director Peter LaBarbera (see Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above), told a relig-right gatherg hosted by Visn Ameri that homosexualy was "disgtg" and mand the closg down of all "homosexual tablishments.

In 2009, Higgs pared homosexualy to Nazism, likeng the German Evangelil Church’s weak rponse to fascism to the “Amerin church’s failure to rpond appropriately to the spread of radil, heretil, stctive views of homosexualy. Matt Barber, formerly wh Concerned Women for Ameri and Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (see above for both), joed Liberty Counsel as director of cultural affairs (also beg Liberty Universy’s associate an for reer and profsnal velopment). A year earlier, Barber had argued that given “medil evince about the dangers of homosexualy, ” should be nsired “crimally reckls for tors to teach children that homosexual nduct is a normal, safe and perfectly acceptable alternative.

” Later, MassRistance charged that groups like the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), which support school anti-bullyg programs, actually want to lure children to homosexualy and, very possibly, sadomasochism. Camenker, who has long foced on the purported “homosexual agenda” the schools and equently claimed gays are dangero to kids, has repeatedly ced discreded claims om anizatns like the Natnal Associatn for Rearch and Therapy of Homosexualy that lk homosexualy and pedophilia.

ANTIGAY

Former Prbyterian mister Lou Sheldon has been warng Amerins about the “gay threat” sce 1980, when he found the Tradnal Valu Coaln (TVC), which also is ncerned wh abortn and natnal secury and tak on liberal activists on a range of issu. ” Wh regard to LGBT teen suicis, TVC, unr the headle “Homosexual Urban Legends, ” claims that “[t]he ld, hard fact is that teens who are stgglg wh homosexual feelgs are more likely to be sexually molted by a homosexual school unselor or teacher than to m suici over their feelgs of spair. The TVC also mak assertns on s webse about disproportnate homosexual pedophilia and attacks the ia that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggts the real purpose of marriage equaly is to stroy the ncept of marriage and ultimately replace altogether wh group sex and polygamy.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Interviewer: If the media red more, if people actually red more about the people, they would actually associate the behavr wh the problem, but is like the elephant the room, is the one thg you n't talk about, we see young Ain-Amerin men ntractg HIV at astonishg rat and yet 's not talked about at all as a problem of homosexual behavr, that's the astonishg thg. I have been reluctant to lobby on other issu I most re about - nuclear weapons (agast), relign (atheist), pal punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) bee I don't want to be forever spoutg, dilutg the impact of addrsg my most urgent ncern - legal and social equaly for gay people worldwi. "Anti Gay NounsGather ias g anti gay nouns to create a more tchy and origal nouns: soul, someone, dividual, mortal, person, somebodyGay nouns: homophile, soul, homosexual, dividual, mortal, homo, person, someone, somebodyAnti Gay AdjectivList of anti gay adjectiv to help modify your adjectiv: pro (antonym), opposed, opposgGay adjectiv: homophile, cheerful, jocund, jolly, merry, joyo, dulgent, jovial, cheery, queer, ftal, sunny, brave, braw, joyo, merry, ftive, lorful, homosexual, mirthful, lourfulAnti Gay RhymSlogans that rhyme wh anti gay are easier to remember and grabs the attentn of ers.

Challenge yourself to create your own rhymg that rhyme wh Anti: nt i, slant-eye, thanh thai, nty, man t, plant t, santi, snty, gran t, transplant i, shantey, ranty, n t, kant he, than t, mantey, anti-, chianti, khanty, chant i, fanti, nty, plant tea, ante-, grantee, plant e, slant eye, van thai, than tea, van t, pantie, nt tee, janty, vigilante, brandt t, ntey, nt he, kant i, grant e, lasanti, shanti, disanti, plantae, galanti, santy, dan t, span t, quant i, tran thai, grant ai, ntie, plant he, plant i, jan t, grant high, san t, nt t, santi e, began t, plan t, grant i, pan t, japan t, grant he, panty, antae, lisanti, tan t, arsanti, shanty, tettamanti, nt i, mantei, briganti, plant high, ant he, ypsilanti, chant he, xtran t, crisanti, grant t, san tee, van te, nan t, ferranti, n tie, chanty, mann t, ante, tan tai, van tai, ant i, japan tea, vanti, grisanti, penny ante, chanteyWords that rhyme wh Gay: sachet, ballet, slay, heyday, lay, spray, melee, disarray, they, fey, yay, unrway, holiday, quay, ay, cliche, day, protege, everyday, bray, overlay, jay, sunday, dossier, portray, bouquet, weigh, x-ray, gourmet, che, clay, astray, halfway, grey, betray, display, play, yea, dna, railway, anyway, say, gasay, way, ray, sobriquet, lgerie, stray, may, lay, obey, re, iday, mastay, pay, survey, gray, lei, waylay, repay, fiance, a, nvey, fillet, vertebrae, hey, splay, array, stay, pray, soiree, hay, today, ok, passe, entree, say, sway, j, okay, bay, relay, latte, leeway, k, tray, lay, fe, nay, rume, y, prey, buffet, away, gateway, birthday, allay, asea, valet, dismay. “The ncept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the ia that really sps their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifyg of all human notns, one n love another of the same genr, that is what the homophobe really nnot stand.

SYNONYMS FOR ANTI GAY

“The roots of sexism and homophobia are found the same enomic and polil stutns that serve as the foundatn of racism this untry and, more often than not, the same extremist circl that flict vlence on people of lor are rponsible for the eptns of vlence spired by sexist and homophobic bias.

ANTI-GAY SLOGAN

Compared to the Amerin public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, bee of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, ls ightened of them.