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Contents:
- CON GAM: RH LIMBGH IS SO GAY
- FACT CHECK: DID RH LIMBGH READ A LIST OF GAY MEN WHO DIED AS AN 'AIDS UPDATE'?
- DID RH LIMBGH'S 'AIDS UPDATE' MOCK THE DEATHS OF GAY PEOPLE?
- GAY COMMUNY UPDATE: THREE-WAY
- MY DAD LISTENED TO RH LIMBGH ATTACK GAY PEOPLE LIKE ME, AND ECHOED HIS NTEMPT
- THE PARENTS WHO LISTENED TO RH LIMBGH — AND THE GAY CHILDREN THEY DIDN’T KNOW THEY HAD
- RH LIMBGH CELEBRATED THE ATHS OF GAY MEN OM AIDS ON HIS RAD SHOW
- DAYS AFTER CONTROVERSIAL PRINTIAL AWARD, RH LIMBGH GO AFTER PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR BEG GAY
CON GAM: RH LIMBGH IS SO GAY
Con Gam: Rh Limbgh Is So Gay * rush limbaugh gay *
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FACT CHECK: DID RH LIMBGH READ A LIST OF GAY MEN WHO DIED AS AN 'AIDS UPDATE'?
This was at a time when homosexualy was still Thursday, the word "AIDS" was the third-most searched term on Google alongsi Limbgh's Limbgh had a segment lled "AIDS update" set to mic where he mocked dyg gay people so I don't really want hear about 'speakg ill of the ad' today— Jsi Valenti (@JsiValenti) Febary 17, 2021. The ClaimMany high-profile people on Twter have been mentg to say that Limbgh once had a segment on his show, The Rh Limbgh Show, lled "AIDS Update" that mocked the aths of gay example, lumnist Jsi Valenti went viral wh her tweet that claimed: "Rh Limbgh had a segment lled 'AIDS update' set to mic where he mocked dyg gay people so I don't really want hear about 'speakg ill of the ad' today.
"Another viral tweet me om Pl Elltt Johnson, an assistant profsor at the Universy of Ptsburgh, who tweeted: "Rh Limbgh had a regular rad segment where he would read off the nam of gay people who died of AIDS and celebrate and play horns and bells and stuff. "Brish polil mentator Ash Sarkar tweeted: "In the 1980s, Rh Limbgh hosted a regular rad segment lled 'AIDS Update', where he celebrated and mocked the aths of gay and bisexual men.
"Actor Harry Cook add: "Rh Limbgh had a rad segment lled "AIDS Update" where he'd read out the nam of gay people who had died and celebrate wh horns and bells. A passage reads: "He chastised 'ant homosexuals' for their disrpectful behavr and shortly thereafter began broadstg irreverent and tastels 'AIDS Update' segments troduced by Dnne Warwick's "I'll Never Love This Way Aga.
DID RH LIMBGH'S 'AIDS UPDATE' MOCK THE DEATHS OF GAY PEOPLE?
"The Los Angel Tim published an article 1998 about what was scribed as the "popular" feature of Limbgh's publitn stated that Limbgh even said, "Gays served their fate. ""The homosexual muny was offend by the segment and Limbgh's appearance on The Pat Sajak Show was dispted by ACT UP, a group of AIDS activists, " the book stat.
Rad host Rh Limbgh had an "AIDS Update" segment that mocked the aths of gay people. As nservative fans mourned the ath of the rad pneer, many on social media poted to Limbgh's history of makg sexist, homophobic, and bigoted remarks.
Author Jsi Valenti, for example, posted a msage on Twter statg that Limbgh once had a segment on his show lled "AIDS Update" that mocked the aths of gay people:.
GAY COMMUNY UPDATE: THREE-WAY
Limbgh, who do not enjoy ntretemps, has cut some of his material, pecially on homosexuals. While Limbgh would e to regret the segment, that didn't stop him om airg other homophobic ntent. Limbgh, for stance, had another segment that ed former Congrsman Barney Frank, a proment gay polician, as fodr.
Limbgh also spread the unfound claim that gay men practiced "gerbillg" (you n read more about the unfound urban legend here) and once said, acrdg to Jam Retter's book "The Anatomy of a Sndal, " that gay men "served their fate.
The Media Matters se has noted that Limbgh has a history of homophobic remarks. Tmpet fanfare means ’s time, ladi and gentlemen, for yet another update, gay muny update time. And, as always, we go back to the Grooveyard of Fotten Favor, gay muny update theme song portrayed volly here by Kls Nomi.
MY DAD LISTENED TO RH LIMBGH ATTACK GAY PEOPLE LIKE ME, AND ECHOED HIS NTEMPT
RUSH: Oh, y, Kls Nomi om the Grooveyard of Fotten Favor our gay muny update theme and You Don’t Own Me. And here is: Three gay men om Bangkok, Thailand, three men have tied the knot, thought to be the world’s first three-way same-sex marriage. Bee the only way to tly pay our rpects to the rad host, who reached more than 15 ln listeners durg his 30-year talk rad reer, is to remember exactly who he was and the legacy he left behd— one of divisivens, celty, racism, homophobia, bigotry, and sexism.
”Limbgh equently attacked the LGBTQ+ muny, at one pot sayg, “When a gay person turns his back on you, is anythg but an sult; ’s an vatn. ” In 2020, he turned his sights on then-printial ndidate Pete Buttigieg, claimg then-print Donald Tmp uld “have fun” batg “a gay guy kissg his hband on stage.
THE PARENTS WHO LISTENED TO RH LIMBGH — AND THE GAY CHILDREN THEY DIDN’T KNOW THEY HAD
C., workg as a field anizer for natnal anizatns that supported civil rights and sought to unt and punish hate crim agast what we then lled the gay muny. I was also eply volved the 1993 mpaign Ccnati agast a measure, Issue 3, to amend the cy charter to forbid any law that grants “mory or protected stat … or other preferential treatment” to gay men, lbians or bisexuals.
RH LIMBGH CELEBRATED THE ATHS OF GAY MEN OM AIDS ON HIS RAD SHOW
Was unnamed, imaged bulli who might target me on a siwalk or a gas statn or parkg lot and lash out wh homophobic vlence? Or was me, for fyg notns of relig piety and nformy she held ar and beg unaaid to ll myself a gay man? At the time, fear of AIDS and transmissn of adly HIV was terwoven wh gay inty, like the double helix of DNA that rearchers were then untanglg.
But the language he ed — “I don’t want a gay agenda forced on me” — ma clear his ntempt. Sthg cricism of “homosexuals” was Limbgh’s nsistent textual preference for on-air treatment of LGBT people.
He mocked gay men who died of AIDS. He promoted the false narrative that gay men rec children for sex, tellg Playboy, “I do thk that if you get hold of people young enough and attempt to sway them, that homosexualy n be steered to them.
DAYS AFTER CONTROVERSIAL PRINTIAL AWARD, RH LIMBGH GO AFTER PETE BUTTIGIEG FOR BEG GAY
Limbgh’s attempt at reversal of victimhood — that was heterosexual people, not gays, who were the subjects of reprsn bee their thory to lash out at people they spised was limed by law— uld be read the language of the Ccnati policy self. Limbgh repeated the false accatn ed to w passage of the law: that by tryg to stop discrimatn, gay people sought privilege, or “special rights. ”Paful qutns for my parentsIn one of Limbgh’s most dangero turns, he qutned whether Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man whose assailants went to jail for his killg, was the victim of a hate crime.
“He is sayg gay people like me serve vlence. Durg the 2020 electn season, he mocked Democratic printial hopeful Pete Buttigieg for beg gay.
Democratic lears, he claimed, had to be "sayg, 'OK, how's this gog to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissg his hband onstage next to Mr. '" As happened, Buttigieg never appeared next to Tmp, but now Tmp is out of office and Buttigieg is a member of Print Joe Bin's Limbgh's many other anti-LGBTQ+ statements, he has asserted that when a gay man turns his back, "'s an vatn"; said the movement for equaly is succeedg only "by virtue of force"; blamed marriage equaly for ct; said a photo of a distrght gay child was faked; urged the Republin Party to nounce Calyn Jenner, a Republin herself, for beg transgenr; and predicted that photos of Melania Tmp nu and embracg another woman, which were leaked durg the 2016 printial mpaign, would lead LGBTQ+ people to vote for her hband. Early on, his show briefly had a segment lled "AIDS Update" which he mocked gay men who died of AIDS plitns and blamed them for the disease.