Fally the great Gay Agenda is workg! Twice as many of now intify as LGBTQ+ | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024
• THE GAY AGENDA
• FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+
• THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI
• THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA
• NETFLIX LNCH 'THE GAY AGENDA,' A PODST CELEBRATG LGBTQ MUNY
• TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
• GAY AGENDA SWITZERLAND
• GAY AGENDA SCHWEIZ
• GAY AGENDA BASEL
• BASEL GAY SNAS

GAY PRIS 2023 AND 2024

As the LGBTQ agenda has been ont and center durg Pri Month June, the Amerin Fay Associatn (AFA, ) is alertg parents about the ncerted effort to normalize homosexualy, same-sex marriage and the transgenr liftyle to the untry's youngt cizens. "AFA is potg to several exampl of an agenda-driven asslt on young Amerins:This sprg, the tax-fund PBS Kids aired a gay marriage on the Arthur rtoon. Ratburn, was gay and gettg partment stor are not only offerg clothg and accsori for both adults and children to celebrate the gay liftyle, but the pany has also pledged to donate $100, 000 to the Gay, Lbian Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), an anizatn whose primary foc is stctg school-aged stunts about how to create "gay" clubs public schools across the natn.

A gay character was seemgly shoe-horned to a scene the blockbter Marvel film Avengers: Endgame to satisfy the LGBT agenda and reach a younger Queen Story Hours have been planned at lol public and school librari natnwi over the past year. The Gay Agenda: Claimg Space, Inty, and Jtice claims and reclaims the language of «agenda» and turns the rhetoric of the relig right on s ear.

THE GAY AGENDA

The ntributors provi sightful and sharp mentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage and fay, cultural fluenc, schoolg and tn, and polics and law. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSI would like to thank the Christian fundamentalists, extremists, and social nservativ, particularly those my home provce of Brish Columbia, whose attus, bigotry, and polil activism pelled me to break ee of the “ex-gay” dtry, and 20 years later, engage this book project. ”The notice clud a sentence that spelled out their exact meang: “History provis abundant evince of ci and natns stroyed by ternal moral y, ” of which they nsired homosexualy to be one form.

As a member of a fundamentalist Christian church at the time, I heard plenty of worryexprsed by fellow ngregants the leadup to the Gay Gam. I learned another signifint lson om the fundamentalist Christian rpons to the Gay Gam and pecially om the paid public notice the Vanuver Sun.

FALLY THE GREAT GAY AGENDA IS WORKG! TWICE AS MANY OF NOW INTIFY AS LGBTQ+

Referrg to queer visibily and activism more broadly, the late Baptist pastor and televangelist Jerry Falwell clared that a “homosexual steamroller” is nng roughshod over Ameri. Acrdg to Rick Santom, a Uned Stat senator, failed Republin nomee for the 2012 printial electn, and spiratn for Dan Savage’s stologil rebrandg of “santom, ” a “homosexual bal” stole the printial electn by ployg “homosexual dirty tricks. Soldiers Iraq and Afghanistan, 11 the massacre of Dutch troops Srebreni 1995, 12 makg children gay through anti-bullyg programs schools, 13 and, ultimately, Judgment Day self.

In 1994, the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD) stated that, “advocy for sex between adult men and boys and the removal of legal protectns for children…nstute a form of child abe and are repugnant to GLAAD. ” This is a perennially favore term ployed by Christian activists to pict as one-dimensnal, meang preoccupied by our rnal and satiable lt for gay sex.

In addn to the mands that Christian activists fd so objectnable and outrageo and that they ntually and willfully misreprent as “special rights, ” we supposedly want everyone else to bee obssed wh homo sex, too, or at least to not be straight. The Gay Agenda, Spelled OutIn addn to the social, polil, and environmental chaos that ensu at our biddg (well, technilly, rults om God’s wrath, but we seem to get the cred for ), we also ploy our power to brg about the end of the world and we will stop at nothg to fulfill our agenda. From the vantage pot of relig zealotry, the gay agenda tak the shape of evil that is embodied by the guise of mon, normal people wh whom unspectg, God-fearg people and their children teract every day.

THE GAY AGENDA BLUEPRT: A PLAN TO TRANSFORM AMERI

Be ever vigilant; the agenda is one of gay ce, wickedns, sexual pravy, child moltatn, and erosn of beloved godly stutns such as marriage and proper genr rol for boys, girls, men, and women as ← 4 | 5 → God tend them to be. Michael Swift blabbed the secrets of our anizatn’s plans for world domatn an article om 1987 that was published Gay Communy News, which ran Boston om 1973 to 1992.

Consir the dark and forebodg excerpts:That Swift’s text is male-centered dit how sexism is at play gay agenda rhetoric om Christian activists, startg wh the phrase “gay agenda, ” as though “gay” unproblematilly clus lbians, bisexuals, and other sexual mori.

THE ANTI-GAY AGENDA

The logic seems to be that, sce men have more social privilege and power, Whe men particular, efforts to migate or elimate the gay agenda need to foc primarily on gay men and gay male activists.

The sexism and Whe foc of gay-agenda polics, then, margaliz lbians, queers of lour, and trans people, among others, and prum that the terts of Whe gay men reprent the terts of all sexual and genr mori.

NETFLIX LNCH 'THE GAY AGENDA,' A PODST CELEBRATG LGBTQ MUNY

Genr and Whens are not the ncern of Christian activists bee their aim is to homogenize ’s text, and rpons to , certaly did not attempt to explite issu of genr and race, implyg that all queers are unanimo their support of the gay agenda. As a rd-rryg member of the Internatnal Society for the Advancement of Homosexual Liftyl (ISAHL), I n assure you that the Gay Agenda explicly prohibs the e of bweapons.

I me out 20 years ago when “gay” was still an acceptable sult, you uld unt the number of out celebri on one hand and if you saw an LGBTQ+ character on TV there was a 99% chance they were a psychopath or a predator. ” There Kirk, a rearcher nropsychiatry, and Madsen, a public relatns nsultant, laid out a blueprt to fundamentally change Amerins’ attus toward homosexuals and homosexualy. Gallup polls 1989 showed that only 19 percent of Amerins believed people were born homosexual, wh 48 percent believg was due to environmental factors such as upbrgg.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

By 2015 those numbers had dramatilly shifted to 51 percent believg homosexuals were born that way and only 30 percent attributg to other factors. (This is spe of the fact that extensive geic rearch and many studi of intil tws where only one was homosexual have disproven geic termism. Well-rearched surveys (as opposed to some wh markedly skewed sampl and/or methodology) have nsistently placed the homosexual populatn of Ameri at around 2 to 3 percent—yet the fluence of homosexuals on Amerin culture is vastly out of proportn wh their actual numbers.

Constant talk builds the imprsn that public opn is at least divid on the subject, and that a sizable segment accepts or even practic homosexualy. In the early stag of any mpaign to reach straight Ameri, the mass should not be shocked and repelled by premature exposure to homosexual behavr self. A USA Today article last year reported 32 regularly appearg bisexual or homosexual characters primetime work scripted seri for the 2014-15 televisn season, wh another 64 appearg ble TV shows (Bill Keveney, “Y, You Really Are Seeg More LGBT Characters on TV, ” Oct.

This means publicizg support for gays by more morate church, raisg theologil objectns of our own about nservative terpretatns of biblil teachgs, and exposg hatred and nsistency. This they have certaly acplished—enlistg liberal scholars to expla away biblil teachgs about homosexual practic, reterpretg their pla meang.

GAY AGENDA SWITZERLAND

They ntued: “Send, we n unrme the moral thory of homophobic church by portrayg them as antiquated backwaters, badly out of step wh the tim and wh the latt fdgs of psychology. Those who hold to biblil teachgs about homosexualy and marriage are nmned as bigots, homophob and backward thkers who are a threat to progrs.

GAY AGENDA SCHWEIZ

Some who have stood up have been fed, orred to attend pro-homosexual “sensivy trag, ” lost jobs or had their bs sued out of existence by ernment agents and agenci that support the homosexual agenda.

GAY AGENDA BASEL

“If gays are prented, stead, as a strong and priful tribe promotg a rigidly nonnformist and viant liftyle, they are more likely to be seen as a public menace that jtifi ristance and opprsn. This means that jnty mtached mclemen would keep very low profile gay mercials and other public prentatns, while sympathetic figur of nice young people, old people, and attractive women would be featured.

They then add this utn for those who would want to ph the gay agenda too far: “It almost go whout sayg that groups on the fartht marg of acceptabily such as NAMBLA [the North Amerin Man-Boy Love Associatn, which as s name suggts promot adult-child homosexual sex] mt play no part at all such a mpaign: spected child-molters will never look like victims... The gay muny should no longer be nsired victims the Uned Stat—and realy those the gay movement have bee aggrsive challengers of tradnal valu and biblil beliefs on many onts.

“A media mpaign that sts gays as society’s victims and enurag straights to be their protectors mt make easier for those to rpond to assert and expla their new protectivens. But an addnal theme of the mpaign should be more aggrsive and upbeat: to offset the creasgly bad prs that the tim have brought to homosexual men and women, the mpaign should pat gays as superr pillars of society.

BASEL GAY SNAS

Send, we tend to make the anti-gays look so nasty that average Amerins will want to dissociate themselv om such typ” (emphasis add throughout).