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Disparaging term used by opponents of gay rights activism

Marchers at Prague Pride 2017 carry a satirical "Homo Lobby" sign

Marchers at Prague Pride 2017 carry a satirical "Homo Anteroom" sign, a phrase used as a slur by right-wing populist movements in the Czech Republic.

"Gay agenda" (or "homosexual calendar") is a term introduced by sectors of the Christian religious right as a disparaging way to describe the advancement of cultural acceptance and normalization of non-heterosexual sexual orientations and relationships. The term originated amongst social conservatives in the United States and has been adopted in other nations with active anti-LGBT movements such as Republic of hungary and Uganda.

The term refers to efforts to alter government policies and laws on LGBT rights–related problems. Additionally, it has been used by social conservatives and others to describe alleged goals of LGBT rights activists, such every bit recruiting heterosexuals into what conservatives term a "homosexual lifestyle".

Origins and usage

Origins

Embrace of DVD The Gay Agenda: March on Washington

In the Usa, the phrase "the gay agenda" was popularized by a video serial produced by the evangelical religious group, Springs of Life Ministries in California, and distributed by many Christian correct organizations, the showtime video of which was called The Gay Calendar and was released in 1992.[1] : 80–81 The video was widely distributed and propelled Springs of Life Ministries into the national spotlight. Tens of thousands of copies of the video were sold. It was distributed in the US Congress, and Commandant of the Marine Corps Full general Carl Mundy Jr. gave information technology to the other members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.[two] It was used in political campaigns, for case, by the Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA), a conservative Christian political activist system. OCA used the video as part of their entrada for Ballot Measure 9 to amend the Oregon Constitution to prevent what the OCA chosen special rights for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals.[3] [ page needed ]

Paul Cameron—co-founder of the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality in Lincoln, later renamed the Family Research Institute—appeared in the video, wherein he asserted that 75 percent of gay men regularly ingest feces and that lxx–78 percent have had a sexually transmitted affliction.[4] The Gay Agenda was followed past three other video publications; The Gay Agenda in Public Pedagogy (1993), The Gay Agenda: March on Washington (1993) and a characteristic follow-up Stonewall: 25 Years of Deception (1994). The videos contained interviews with opponents of LGBT rights, and the series was made available through Christian right organizations.[5]

After the Ball, a 1989 book on gay rights past Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, despite being poorly received past the LGBT community, was cited past members of the Christian right as emblematic of the "stealth techniques" supposedly used past gay activists.[6]

Usage in the United States

The term "gay calendar" or "radical gay calendar" has been used by members of the Christian correct to refer to efforts to alter government policies and laws on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) bug, for case, same-sexual practice marriage and civil unions, LGBT adoption, recognizing sexual orientation as a protected civil rights minority classification, LGBT military participation, inclusion of LGBT history and themes in public education, introduction of anti-bullying legislation to protect LGBT minors—besides equally non-governmental campaigns and individual actions that increase visibility and cultural acceptance of LGBT people, relationships, and identities. The term has besides been used past some social conservatives to describe declared goals of LGBT rights activists, such every bit supposed recruitment of heterosexuals into a "homosexual lifestyle".[7]

The term has been used in response to efforts to include protections for LGBT people under local and country anti-discrimination laws,[eight] likewise as U.S. Supreme Court cases that granted new rights to LGBT individuals, such as Lawrence v. Texas and Obergefell 5. Hodges, which respectively held that private acts of consensual sex activity betwixt same-sex activity couples and the right of same-sexual activity couples to marry were fundamental rights guaranteed under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution.[9] U.S. Supreme Courtroom Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his 2003 dissent in Lawrence:

Today's opinion is the production of a Court, which is the production of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the then-chosen homosexual calendar, past which I mean the agenda promoted past some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual carry.[10]

Conservative Christian groups such as the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the Cosmic Family & Homo Rights Establish (C-Fam), and the World Congress of Families (WCF) accept used the term in their literature.[11] : xv–18 According to its website, ADF has litigated numerous anti–gay rights cases in countries outside the US, in society to combat the "homosexual agenda" which information technology claims will "destroy spousal relationship and undermine religious freedom".[eleven] : 9 ADF president Alan Sears published a book in 2003 titled The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Chief Threat to Religious Liberty Today, which argues that overturning anti-sodomy laws would lead to the legalization of pedophilia, incest, polygamy, and bestiality.[11] : 15

In 2004, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn called the "gay agenda" the "greatest threat" to Americans' freedoms.[12] In 2005, James Dobson, director of Focus on the Family, said the goals of the "homosexual activist movement" were:

universal acceptance of the gay lifestyle, discrediting of scriptures that condemn homosexuality, muzzling of the clergy and Christian media, granting of special privileges and rights in the police, overturning laws prohibiting pedophilia, indoctrinating children and time to come generations through public education, and securing all the legal benefits of marriage for any ii or more people who claim to have homosexual tendencies.[13] [ third-party source needed ]

American conservative Christian groups such every bit the Family unit Inquiry Quango (FRC) have cited fears of a "homosexual agenda" in lobbying against extending hate-offense legislation to cover acts motivated by bias confronting a person's sexual orientation or gender identity,[fourteen] likewise every bit public-school curricula nigh homosexuality introduced in an effort to reduce bullying.[15] In 2010, the FRC produced a graphic labelled "Homosexual Agenda" which consisted of the phrases "Innocence", "Family", "Local Community", "Public Health" and "Parental Say-so" struck out with red lines.[16] [ third-political party source needed ]

Usage exterior the United States

Africa

In Africa, fright of a "Western gay agenda" is frequently used by opponents of LGBT rights.[17]

In 2021 the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference called for LGBT rights organizations to exist kicked out of their office space in Accra because of the belief that they promote the homosexual agenda.[xviii]

American Christian correct organizations that are losing credence among Americans have had more success promoting the notion of a gay calendar in Africa. Examples include Man Life International, American Center for Law & Justice and Family Watch International. Zambian scholar Kapya John Kaoma considers these organizations colonial powers, working to expand American potency of Africa.[nineteen]

Uganda borrowed from the anti-gay rhetoric and influence of the American religious right to influence public opinion, and eventually persuade parliament to pass the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Human activity (previously called the "Kill the Gays bill").

In 2009, a workshop entitled "Seminar on Exposing the Homosexuals' Agenda" was held in Kampala, Uganda organized by the Family Life Network, and led by Ugandan Stephen Langa.[20] The workshop featured three American evangelial Christians: Scott Lively, author of several books opposing homosexuality; Caleb Lee Brundidge, an ex-gay human being who conducts sessions to heal homosexuality; and Don Schmierer, a lath member of Exodus International, an organization devoted to promoting "freedom from homosexuality through the ability of Jesus Christ".[21] [22] The theme of the conference was the "gay agenda": the threat posed to Bible-based values and traditional American family. They discussed conversion therapy, how gay men oftentimes sodomized teenage boys and how "the gay motion is an evil institution" whose goal is "to defeat the union-based society and replace information technology with a culture of sexual promiscuity".[23] According to Ugandan Kappy Kaoma who was in attendance, "[The parliament] feels it is necessary to typhoon a new police that deals comprehensively with the issue of homosexuality and ...takes into business relationship the international gay agenda. ... Right now there is a proposal that a new police be drafted."[20]

Inside a month, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill of 2009 was introduced in Parliament with penalties upwardly to capital punishment. That did not succeed, but by 2013 Parliament passed a law which was so signed into law by President Museveni with penalties up to life imprisonment for "the offense of homosexuality".[24]

Europe

In Hungary, László Toroczkai, president of the far-correct political party Jobbik, has complained of the perceived "homosexual agenda."[25] Toroczkai introduced a police force banning public displays of affection by gay people in 2017.[26]

Central America

Earlier decriminalization of homosexuality in Belize, the LGBT and anti-AIDS organization United Belize Advancement Motion (UNIBAM) was lambasted in the Amandala newspaper and past American evangelicals who accused the grouping of trying to bring the "gay 'agenda'" to the land.[11] : 19

International organizations

In 2019, two prominent Roman Cosmic cardinals - Raymond Leo Burke and Walter Brandmuller wrote an open up letter to Pope Francis calling for an end of "the plague of the homosexual agenda" which they blamed for the sexual abuse crisis engulfing the Catholic Church. They claimed the agenda was spread by "organized networks" protected by a "conspiracy of silence".[27]

Speakers from many nations inveigh against the perceived homosexual calendar at the World Congress of Families almanac tiptop, a focal point of the worldwide "pro-family" move.[28]

Responses

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) describes the term "gay agenda" or "homosexual agenda" as a "rhetorical invention of anti-gay extremists seeking to create a climate of fear by portraying the pursuit of civil rights for LGBT people every bit sinister".[29]

Some writers take described the term every bit debasing.[30] [ unreliable source? ] Commentators take remarked on a lack of realism and veracity to the idea of a gay agenda per se.[31] [32] Such campaigns based on a presumed "gay agenda" have been described as anti-gay propaganda by researchers and critics.[ who? ] [33] [34]

In a press conference on Dec 22, 2010, U.S. Representative Barney Frank said that the "gay calendar" is

to be protected against violent crimes driven by discrimination, it's to exist able to get married, information technology'due south to exist able to become a job, and it'south to be able to fight for our country. For those who are worried about the radical homosexual agenda, let me put them on notice. Two downward, two to go.[35]

Satire

A satirical article by Michael Swift which appeared in the Gay Community News in February 1987 entitled "Gay Revolutionary" describes a scenario in which homosexual men dominate American club and suppress all things heterosexual. This was reprinted in Congressional Tape without the opening line: "This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, roughshod fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor."[36]

The term is sometimes used satirically as a counterfoil past people who would unremarkably find this term offensive, such as the spoof agenda found on the Betty Bowers satirical website,[37] and as the name of a stand-upwardly comedy show in Prague that is a fundraiser for AIDS relief efforts.[38] American rapper Lil Nas Ten thanked the gay calendar in his acceptance oral communication at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.[39]

Bishop Gene Robinson declared that "Jesus is the calendar, the homosexual agenda in the Episcopal Church".[40] [41] On an episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart defined the gay calendar as "gay marriage, civil rights protection, Fleet Week expanded to Fleet Year, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance for when information technology'south raining men, Kathy Griffin to host everything and a nationwide ban on pleated pants".[42]

See also

  • Anti-LGBT rhetoric
  • Culture war
  • GLAAD
  • Human Rights Campaign
  • LGBT social movements
  • Rainbow capitalism
  • Russian gay propaganda law
  • Societal attitudes toward homosexuality

References

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  5. ^ Herman (1997), pp. 80–81.
  6. ^ Herman (1997), p. 86.
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  37. ^ "Cheers to Betty Bowers, homosexuals' sneaky little secrets are at present revealed to the godly: THE HOMOSEXUAL Agenda!". world wide web.bettybowers.com. 2000. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved ten May 2017.
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Further reading

  • Adler, Libby (2009). "The Gay Agenda". Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. sixteen (one): 147–216. ISSN 1095-8835.
  • Kirk, Marshall; Madsen, Hunter (1989). After the Ball: How America Volition Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s . New York: Doubleday. ISBN0-385-23906-8.
  • Warner, Michael (ed.); Social Text Collective (1993). Fearfulness of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory. Academy of Minnesota Printing. ISBN978-0-8166-2333-four. OCLC 28634756. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

External links

  • "The 1972 Gay Rights Platform Platform created at the National Coalition of Gay Organizations Convention held in Chicago in 1972". rslevinson. Archived from the original on xiii April 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2009. (Historical text cited by social conservatives every bit bear witness of a "gay agenda")

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