10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?
• TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH
• ARE HOMOPHOB REALLY GAY?
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• GAY HOMOPHOBE
• HOMOPHOBIC MEN ARE AROED BY GAY MALE PORN
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

ARE HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE REALLY GAY AND NOT ACCEPTG IT?

Isve, and both said that at some pot, they thought that the sexual activy was part of the therapy and an attempt to cure them of homosexualy by engagg the acts, rather than fantasizg about them, " a disciplary panel wrote s report.

The pastor left the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri over a cisn by the nomatn 2009 to orda "practicg homosexuals, " and even said God sent a tornado to strike the Mneapolis Conventn Center durg an ELCA nference over the cisn. The founr of Glory Hoe Internatnal Pentestal Church cried homosexualy as "at odds wh my relig beliefs, " even as he admted to he fondled a younger preacher and a teenage boy durg separate trips where he stayed the other men's hotel beds. Once the most senr Catholic clergyman Bra, O'Brien also had a reputatn for homophobia and opposed marriage equaly, adoptn by gays, and other civil rights protectns for LGBT people, earng him the tle "Bigot of the Year" om the Stonewall chary.

Self-scribed as a tradnal nservative, this mayor of Mississippi town Southaven got exposed as gay durg his fourth term office after state dors revealed he purchased $67 worth of toys om a gay sex shop Toronto and billed to the taxpayers.

TOM HOLLAND’S THE CROWD ROOM GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS APPALLG HOMOPHOBIC BACKLASH

Those participants who reported their heterosexualy spe havg hidn same-sex sir were also the most likely to show hostily toward gay dividuals, cludg self-reported anti-gay attus, endorsement of anti-gay polici and discrimatn such as supportg harsher punishments for homosexuals. A seri of studi recently published the prtig Journal of Personaly and Social Psychology found higher levels of homophobia dividuals wh unacknowledged attractns to the same sex, particularly when they grew up wh thorarian parents who also held homophobic attus.

In the Universy of Rochter's prs release, Netta Weste, the study's lead thor, said, "Individuals who intify as straight but psychologil tts show a strong attractn to the same sex may be threatened by gays and lbians bee homosexuals remd them of siar tennci wh themselv. Acrdg to the team of rearchers, this study is the first to document the role that both parentg and sexual orientatn play the formatn of anti-gay attus, cludg self-reported homophobic attus, discrimatory bias, implic hostily towards gays, and endorsement of anti-gay polici.

ARE HOMOPHOB REALLY GAY?

This ngence between implic and explic measur of sexual orientatn predicted a variety of homophobic behavrs, cludg self-reported anti-gay attus, implic hostily towards gays, endorsement of anti-gay polici, and discrimatory bias such as the assignment of harsher punishments for homosexuals. "Most notor among chiefs was Los Angel's Ed Davis, who once pared gay people to lepers and opposed the cy's first pri para 1970, sayg, "As far as I'm ncerned, grantg a para perm to a group of homosexuals to para down Hollywood Boulevard would be the same as givg a perm to march to a group of thiev and murrers.

So when a member of Parliament told those attendg an opposn party's rally 2011 that Mugabe had multiple gay affairs, Mugabe proved his heterosexualy by lockg her jail for a was followed by an awkward pronouncement before the Uned Natns 2015 when Mugabe shouted, "We are not gays!

‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

6, the iative targetg gay teachers, is terviewed by newsmen a block om San Francis's famed Polk Street San Francis, November 1, was so worried that gayns would spread om San Francis -- which he lled the untry's "moral garbage dump of homosexualy" -- that he proposed barrg gays and lbians om teachg public schools. If he's really Bh's bra, then we n safely cred Rove wh cynilly tryg to stir his right-wg base 2004 wh 11 antigay November ballot measur and an endorsement of a nstutnal amendment to ban same-sex marriage by Print Gee W. It was supposed to ensure that women n't be discrimated agast, but Schlafly waved the specter of same-sex marriage and other rights for gays and lbians as a sre tactic that assured the amendment fell three stat short of ratifitn at the adle 1982.

GAY HOMOPHOBE

But Exod's primary activy sce the late '70s -- when was found by Jim Kaspar and Mike Bsee, both of whom claimed to be "ex-gay" -- has been hostg nferenc hop of openg the wallets of gays and bisexuals wantg to stunt their sexualy.

When a North Carola pastor reacted to Print Obama's support for marriage equaly by suggtg a quarante of gays and lbians behd an electrified fence, harkened back to the days of failed third-party printial ndidate Lyndon LaRouche and his nutty band of followers. A 1992 Sissy honoree for sayg he'd like to wipe all HIV-posive people off the face of the earth, the California ngrsman had a mouth that put him the pag of The Advote wh a regulary rerved for only the biggt homophob.

When the actor was ught an anti-Semic meltdown and arrted a 2006 DUI or embarrassed 2010 by tape rerdgs of a vlent, racist rant agast his ex-girliend, gay media were quick to pot out neher was his first offense. Perks has said kids are ma gay bee of immoral parents, that the Secret Service prostutn sndal was a rult of the admstratn's repeal of "don't ask, don't tell, " and that JCPenney should've been boytted bee after chose a lbian spokwoman Ellen DeGener. Rglear of all rad shock jocks Howard Stern (pictured above) was shamed 1990 wh a Sissy Award for jokg that lbians would turn for him -- "Probably cure 'em forever, " he said -- and claimg gay men actually like beg h, tortured, and bised.

HOMOPHOBIC MEN ARE AROED BY GAY MALE PORN

But his homophobia will be remembered forever thanks to the numero fictnal portrayals he spired after he died 1986 of AIDS plitns, such works as Tony Khner's Angels Ameri and the award-wng ble movie Cizen Cohn.

Mormon lears later tweaked the baptism policy -- barely -- to say that applied to children whose "primary rince" is wh a same-sex uple, and that kids of gay upl who are already baptized needn't be exclud om church activi.

ISIS has cheered the Orlando attack, even if the FBI says never ordated wh Mateen on planng FBI said on Monday 's still vtigatg accatns that Mateen himself might have secretly been gay or bisexual, followg up on leads by several Florida men who said they'd seen Mateen on gay datg apps, or the nightclub as long as several years earlier.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Needls to say, the arrt was a suprise sce Szajer had prevly been known as the -founr of the notorly anti-LGBTQ+ Fisz party and a key ally of the equally homophobic Orban, but now he'll be forever remembered as the man who shimmied down a dra pipe to pe arrt while other party-goers thought the police burstg to the apartment were part of the entertament and tried to unzip the arrtg officer's pants. Dpe recent gas gay civil rights, cludg the recent US Supreme Court lgs on marriage, the overturng of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ” as well as the legalizatn of same-sex marriage many foreign untri, homophobia is alive and well both here and abroad.

Recently Print Vladmir Put signed an anti-propoganda law that rulted the recent arrts of several gay Dutch tourists and may give police the right to arrrt anyone who portrays homosexuay posively cludg LGBT teachers and parents ().