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Contents:

• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY TUCSON

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

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GLAADGLAAD builds support for equaly by amplifyg the voice of the #LGBT muny and holdg the media acuntable for the words and imag they Rights CampaignThe Human Rights Campaign is Ameri's largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Rights FirstHuman Rights First is an pennt advocy and actn anizatn that challeng Ameri to live up to s ials. Human Rights First believ Amerin learship is…Lambda LegalLambda Legal is a natnal anizatn mted to achievg full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and those wh HIV through…Massachetts 5BAGLY (Boston Alliance of GLBT Youth)The Boston Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth (BAGLY) was formed 1980 and is a youth-led, adult-supported anizatn mted to social jtice, and creatg, stag and…Fenway HealthFenway Health advot for and livers novative, equable, accsible health re, supportive servic, and transformative rearch and tn. We center LGBTQIA+ people…Gay & Lbian Advot & Defenrs (GLAD)Through strategic ligatn, public policy advocy, and tn, Gay & Lbian Advot & Defenrs works New England and natnally to create a jt society ee of…Massachetts Transgenr Polil CoalnFound 2001, the Massachetts Transgenr Polil Coaln (MTPC) is an advocy, tn, and muny learship anizatn that works to ensure the wellbeg…MassEqualyMassEqualy is the leadg Massachetts grassroots advocy anizatn workg to ensure that everyone across Massachetts n thrive om cradle to grave whout…Washgton 4Odyssey Youth MovementOdyssey Youth Movement promot equy for LGBTQ+ youth the Inland Northwt through youth-driven programs and muny tnMnota 4OutFront MnotaOutFront MnotaProject 515Project 515 was found 2006 wh a sgle, achievable missn to create a state where marriage laws did not discrimate agast LGBT persons.

We are…Texas 3Rource CenterRource Center is a tsted lear that empowers the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muni and all people affected by HIV through improvg health and…Rource Center of DallasRource Center is a tsted lear that empowers the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muni and all people affected by HIV through improvg health and…Utah 3Transgenr Edutn Advot of UtahTEA of Utah is a statewi transgenr (trans) advocy anizatn.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

Stonewall Democrats supports ndidat and elected officials iendly to the LGBTQI muny who are support of rights, equaly and mon sense…Alaska 1Alaskans Together For EqualyAlaskans Together for Equaly (ATE) is AlaskaNew York 1Anti Vlence ProjectAVP empowers lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and HIV-affected muni and alli to end all forms of vlence through anizg and tn, and supports…Oregon 1Basic Rights OregonBasic Rights Oregon aims to ensure that all lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Oregonians experience equaly by buildg a broad and clive polilly powerful movement…Alabama 1Equaly AlabamaEqualy Alabama's missn is to advance equaly for LGBTQ Alabamians where they live, work, learn and play through tn and advocy. Florida 1Equaly FloridaEqualy Florida is the largt civil rights anizatn dited to securg full equaly for FloridaHawaii 1Equaly Hawai'iEqualy Hawaii is dited to securg equaly for Hawaii's lbian, gay, bisexual & transgenr muny. Illois 1Equaly IlloisThe missn of Equaly Illois is to secure, protect and fend equal rights for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people 1Equaly KansasEqualy Kansas is a US anizatn whose missn is to end discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty.

IE Actn foc on amendg IndianaNew Hampshire 1New Hampshire Freedom To Marry CoalnNew Hampshire Freedom to Marry is New Hampshire's statewi lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) tn and advocy anizatn. Colorado 1One ColoradoOne Colorado is a statewi advocy anizatn dited to securg and protectg equaly and opportuny for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) Coloradans and…Missouri 1PROMOA proment Missouri-based LGBTQ+ advocy and lobbyg Carola 1SC EqualySC Equaly is the statewi LGBTQ rights anizatn South Carola. The Gay Officers Actn League (GOAL), is a first-of-s-kd anizatn that was formed 1982 to addrs the needs, issu, and ncerns of gay and lbian law enforcement personnel and has sce expand to a nonprof tax-exempt civil rights anizatn.

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

(Augt 5, 1943–May 5, 2008) a sergeant of the New York Cy Police Department, who after liverg a public ttimony on anti-gay discrimatn legislatn pendg before the New York Cy Council, beme the first openly gay officer of the NYPD. Eventually, one ntracts productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Disverg Love - the good, the bad, and the uglySome viewers, unfortunately, will pass on this film as the ver of the DVD mak appear to be a gay sexploatn waste of time. It is 1984 and a gay high school lad Frank (Layke Anrson) p his rigid parents by movg to Amsterdam where he lands a job as a bar boy a gay dance club, the Hoe of Boys n by a man referred to as Madame (Ugo Kier) who keeps everyone tow as well as performg drag on stage.

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. 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.

GAY TUCSON

In a 2010 “actn alert, ” the AFA warned that if homosexuals are allowed to openly serve the ary, “your son or dghter may be forced to share ary showers and barracks wh active and open homosexuals.

Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy (AFTAH) was formed as a part-time venture 1996 by long-time gay-basher Peter LaBarbera, who reanized 2006 as a much more ser and fluential, if often vic, operatn. 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. The same year, he posted an open letter to the Lhuanian people om long-time gay-basher Stt Lively (see Abidg Tth Mistri, above), who has ma a seri of false claims about gays nng the German Nazi Party.

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.

In 2001, she hired proment anti-gay propagandists Robert Knight (now wh Coral Ridge Mistri; see below) and Peter LaBarbera (now wh Amerins for Tth About Homosexualy, above) to lnch CWA’s Culture and Fay Instute. CWA long relied on and displayed Knight’s articl and talkg pots, cludg claims that “homosexualy rri enormo physil and mental health risks” and “gay marriage entic children to experiment wh homosexualy.

” 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 one recent say on the CRM webse, he argued agast allowg homosexuals to serve openly the ary, sayg that “Bible-believg Christians would quickly fd themselv unwele Barney Frank’s new pansexual, cross-drsg ary. 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.

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?