Homosexual agenda

{{bronze}}[[File:GayAgenda.jpg|thumb|right|165px|A copy of ''[[Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion|Protocols of the Learned Gay Elders of the Rainbow]]'']]{{homophobia}}
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{{cquote|YOU — "But why do you convene, what do you ''do''?"<br/>SMOKER ON THE BALCONY — "Oh we're ambitious, we want to destroy the last vestiges of meaning, the last things people in Revachol have to hold on to, the true symbols of security the meaning of man and woman, mother and father, their marriage."<br/>"''Everything'' will be constantly shifting and moving under our rule, the future will belong to a circus of identities, just spinning around, surreal and unreal... You won't even know who you are anymore."|||Homosexual Underground, from ''Disco Elysium''}}
{{cquote|[[Faithful|You]] place the [[Bible]] in every hotel room, [[Westboro_Baptist_Church|hold signs up on street corners]], have churches on nearly every corner, insist "[[God]]" be on [[United States dollar|money]] and [[Evangelism|knock on the doors of strangers]] to spread the [[Gospel|good word]]. Tell me again about the gay agenda.|||Atheism: We-Think-More<ref>http://atheismwethinkmore.tumblr.com/post/115793613755</ref>}}

The '''homosexual agenda''' (sometimes '''gay agenda''') is a [[homophobia|homophobic]] [[conspiracy theory]] originally created by the [[Religious Right]] in the [[United States]], which alleges that homosexuals are trying to infiltrate and corrupt 
[[Dr. Strangelove|all of our precious bodily fluids]]
 every facet of [[tradition]]al American culture, most notably: [[family values]]. The primary purpose of this claim is to give the [[LGBT rights]] movement a shady and vicious (yet [[Bullshit|fictional]]) purpose (usually rooted in anti-[[Christianity]], anti-[[Islam]],<ref group=note>[http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rios-will-not-affirm-obama-s-muslim-only-his-priorities-are-islam-first-and-homosexuality-pr Sometimes ''pro''-Islam], when the fantasy is in the mind of a [[Christian fundamentalist]] (a group of people which tends to be [[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]]), which only goes to show how [[delusion]]al these ideas actually are.</ref> and/or pro-[[communist]] conspiracies) and to keep it dehumanized, because the faceless "agenda" is much easier to convince fence-sitters to stand against than the individuals seeking basic [[civil rights]] themselves.

Those who believe in the homosexual agenda often cite Michael Swift's [[satire|satirical]] essay, "Gay Revolutionary," as evidence for their views. In doing so, they generally [[Quote mining|omit the first line]], which reads:
"This essay is an outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor."<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/swift1.html Michael Swift: "Gay Revolutionary"], Fordham University</ref> 

''Brokeback Mountain'' is also apparently a centerpiece of the agenda, being a clever [[propaganda]] piece by which [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]] can brainwash unsuspecting [[Jesusland|red-blooded Americans]] into going along with the homosexual agenda!<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071119121440/http://www.cbn.com/media/browse_videos_info.aspx?s=/vod/pst2 Homosexual agenda pushed in movies like Brokeback Mountain!]</ref>

The "Queer Agenda" is an updated version of the "Gay Agenda" conspiracy theory that has evolved to reflect broader LGBTQ+ activism in the 21st century.

==Exposing their fabulous plot==
{{cquote|You see mysterious strangers in the night. Leaning against unlit doorways, engaged in hushed conversation. A shadowy cabal exchanging looks, whispering in dark alleys and unmarked locales. A radical cell conspiring against the state — and perhaps even against man and woman. Was that a secret handshake? What’s going on? Who are these secretive people? How will they accomplish their sinister and world-altering goals?|||Homosexual Underground, from ''Disco Elysium''<ref>https://discoelysium.fandom.com/wiki/Homo-Sexual_Underground</ref>}}
According to ''The Christian Post'', the homosexual agenda consists of:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090510143430/http://sg.christianpost.com/dbase/editorial/330/7%7C15/1.htm Understanding the Homosexual Agenda], ''The Christian Post'' ([[Singapore]] edition)</ref>
{{quotebox|
#Decriminalisation of [[sodomy]]
#Equalization of age of consent for [[heterosexual]] [[sex]] and homosex
#Anti-[[discrimination]] laws, e.g. [[equality]] in [[sex education]] which should cover heterosexual sex and [[anal sex]]
#[[Same-sex marriage]] or [[civil union]]
#Homosexual parenthood and [[gay adoption|adoption rights]].}}

To others, this might be known as "being treated like a [[human]] being" — the horror!

Use of this term may indicate [[paranoia]], a [[persecution complex]], and an obsession with everything gay.<ref group=note>And once someone is shown to be obsessed with gay people, [[Haggard's Law|the wisecracks that they themselves are gay are inevitable]].</ref>

==Stealing ''our'' rainbows!==
{{cquote|'''Rainbow:''' Sign of the Covenant with [[Noah|Noe]].<!-- This spelling is used in the original text and appears not to be a typo --> Its 7 colors (from the top down: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet) recall the 7 Sacraments (7 is the sign of Covenant and completion). In St. John's vision of Heaven, a rainbow makes an appearance – over the head of the angel who gives John a book to eat (ch. 10), and surroudning<!-- typo in original --> {{sic}} the throne of God.|||Fisheaters.com<ref>[http://www.fisheaters.com/symbols.html Christian Symbols]</ref>}}

Everyone's favorite [[Insanity|nutjob]], [[Scott Lively]], created a video trying to reclaim the rainbow as a [[Christian]] symbol, in a delightful little ditty, ''The Rainbow Belongs to God'', which goes: "Who is the one that dares to defy God's covenant truth with lies?"<ref group=note>That's not even the craziest part; [http://www.queerty.com/the-rainbow-belongs-to-god-is-the-best-antigay-music-video-youll-ever-see-20140701 see the full video here, ''please''!]</ref> Answer: The Gays™ and the gay agenda.

==In schools==
{{cquote|If you pay tuition, you're sponsoring the militant homosexual agenda. If you pay taxes, you're sponsoring the militant homosexual agenda. If your child majors in English, you're sponsoring the militant homosexual agenda. Tell Billy to major in math.|||Excerpt from [[Ben Shapiro]]'s [[Townhall]] editorial "Militant gay English on the rise"<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150417002549/http://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2003/08/20/militant_gay_english_on_the_rise/page/full Militant gay English on the rise] ''Townhall''. August 20, 2003</ref>}}

Some modern and fundamentalist conservative movements, particularly in America, believe that public schools are "indoctrinating" students to promote, convert to, or generally accept homosexuality as "normal".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090610174856/http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3660 Traditional Values] website regarding homosexuality.</ref><ref group=note>Oh no, our children are becoming ''tolerant''! Oh, the agony! Oh, the horror!</ref> This view has become more prominent towards the end of the 20<sup>th</sup> century following the sexual revolution of the 1960s, after which homosexuals became more accepted by mainstream society. However, the evidence to support the claim that homosexuals are trying to ''convert'' students (let alone the existence of an ideological justification for doing so) is <S>scarce</S> non-existent. This idea is largely a result of the growing acceptance towards homosexuality by mainstream society, as well as schools teaching about homosexuality. However, the teaching about homosexuality has been interpreted by anti-LGBT groups as an attempt to convert and indoctrinate, rather than educate.

This idea has frequently been rehashed by notable [[right-wing]] politicians and lawmakers who claimed during 2022 that schools provided litter boxes in student bathrooms to accommodate those that identified as [[Furry fandom|furries]] or [[Otherkin|non-humans]] to serve as both a political [[scapegoat]] and a [[slippery slope]] argument to justify their attacks on the rights of [[transgender]] people and the larger [[LGBT]] community.

While there has been a noticeable lack of teaching gayness in schools, there has been a statistical spike in scared, closeted LGBTQ kids committing suicide, to the point where former US President [[Barack Obama]] made a YouTube video about it.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzcAR6yQhF8</ref>  Evangelicals responded by saying their kids were [[Blaming the victim|bullied first]] by the kid "being gay" at school.

==Homosexual recruitment==
[[File:Reuterdahl Navy recruitment poster 2.jpg|thumb|165px|right|"Cheers for queers and muscle men's rears!"]]

{{cquote|They want you! They want you! They want you as a new recruit!|||{{wpl|Village People||,}} ''{{wpl|In The Navy}}''<ref group=note>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081007120907/http://www.metrolyrics.com/in-the-navy-lyrics-village-people.html This ''almost'' counts as proof. <small>But not really.</small>]</ref>}}

{{cquote|[[Argument from authority|As a mother]], I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.|||[[Anita Bryant]],<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20221003041721/https://pridesource.com/article/17348/ Parting Glances: Oranges & lemons sliced]'' (February 2, 2006).</ref> completely ignoring [[pregnancy|how gay people]] [[genetics|come about]]}}

Homosexual recruitment is the working title of a [[conspiracy theory|conspiratorial]] [[moral panic]] spun into existence by some rather creepy [[wingnut]]s.<ref group=note>They are [[not gay]] themselves, for the record.</ref> It posits that there is a concerted effort by the [[gay]] population to place large numbers of gay teachers in schools. Then, drawing from their [[Bullshit|idea]] that homosexual tendencies are acquired in youth, it then goes on [[Non sequitur|to claim that said gay teachers are trying to seduce children and turn them gay.]] Among proponents of the theory, homosexual recruitment is typically considered part (and likewise ''indicative'') of a larger homosexual agenda. Various wingnuts have also found homosexual recruitment lurking in a number of other areas as well. [[Pat Robertson]], for example, "discovered" that [[feminism]] is actually a front for turning women into [[lesbian]]s.<ref>''[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pat-robertson-feminist-agenda/ Did Pat Robertson Say Feminism Encourages Women to “Kill Their Children”? - Snopes]''</ref> (Along with [[socialism|socialists]], [[Paganism|pagans]], and other sundry bogeymen.)

It also draws on pseudo-[[psychology|psychological]] [[quackery]] regarding [[pedophilia]]. This form of [[bullshit]] posits the notion that gay men are all pedophiles and molest little boys. They allegedly practice this molestation because they know that such abuse will turn the children gay later in life; thus, the gay man "recruits" because he cannot reproduce.<ref group=note>Statistically, the overwhelming majority of [[child sexual abuse]] cases involve heterosexual abuse by adult men of little girls. An exception is [[Priest molestation scandal|the priest molestation scandal]], where the vast majority of cases are [[priest]] on boy. What makes the RC priests so gay?</ref> For this reason, [[religious right|fundamentalist wingnuts]] often support quack psychotherapies such as [[repressed memory|repressed]] or [[confabulation|recovered memory]] therapy to find "proof" of child sexual abuse in gay people, and [[reparative therapy]] to "cure the gay".

This panic led to the {{wpl|Briggs Initiative}} in 1978, a proposition to ban not only gays, but also anyone who supported gay rights, from working in California public schools. However, [[Stopped clock|even]] [[Ronald Reagan]] went against this measure,<ref>Reagan, Ronald (1978-11-01). "Editorial: Two Ill-advised California Trends". Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. p. A19.</ref> and it was defeated at the polls. Britain's infamous {{wpl|Section 28}} law was also passed into law, partly out of fear of gay "recruitment".<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3120924.stm Section 28 to be repealed], BBC News</ref>

In 2013, the [[Russia|Russian]] government unanimously passed a law banning promotion of "homosexual behaviour among minors",<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22862210 |title=Russian Duma passes law banning 'gay propaganda' |date=11 June 2013}}</ref> which was met with protests in Russia and abroad. Proponents of this law try to claim that it is a complete coincidence that its passage was accompanied by a large spike in violence against Russia's LGBT population.

An earlier iteration of this [[conspiracy theory]] was referred to as "Homintern," a play on the [[Red-baiting|Soviet Comintern]]. This theory posited that gays controlled the [[art]]s and [[media]] and used them for the purposes of propagandizing and recruitment.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Mallon-t.html The Homintern], ''[[New York Times]]''</ref> More recently, the term "[[Sexual Bolshevism]]" has been preferred by [[Metapedia]]ns (probably because "Homintern" was too subtle), although this phrase has its history in Weimar Germany (because ''of course'' it does).

==Making our games gay==
[[File:Nexus Mods homophobia.png|thumb|160px|right|The nerve of some people.]]
In 2022, a [[troll]] by the name of Mike Hawk uploaded a mod for the Windows release of ''{{wpl|Spider-Man (2018 video game)|Marvel's Spider-Man}}'' replacing the rainbow flag with the flag of the United States,<ref name="wp">[https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/08/19/spider-man-remastered-pride-flag-mod-nexus/ ‘Spider-Man’ modification scene turns into Pride flag battlefield]</ref><ref name="judy">[https://www.gamesradar.com/mod-site-deletes-anti-pride-mod-for-spider-man-encourages-angry-users-to-delete-their-accounts/ Mod site deletes anti-Pride mod for Spider-Man, encourages angry users to delete their accounts]</ref> along with the description "changes the stupid pride flags with american flags"{{sic}} in an apparent effort to sow controversy over the perceived gay agenda by the game's creators. The mod was taken down soon after, but not without outcry from some users who were butthurt by the ban; Nexus later stated "we are for inclusivity, we are for diversity. If we think someone is uploading a mod on our site with the intent to deliberately be against inclusivity and/or diversity then we will take action against it," also frankly advising users who disagreed with the ban to "move on".<ref name="judy"/> A similar announcement was also made by ModDB when a [[Twitter]] user informed the site that the flag modification was also mirrored on ModDB, which the site's moderators promptly removed.<ref name="garland">[https://www.spieltimes.com/news/spider-man-remastered-anti-lgbtq-controversy-explained/ Spider-Man Remastered: Anti-LGBTQ controversy explained]</ref>

The mod's removal did not keep [[edgelord]]s and possible sockpuppets of the previously-banned troll from uploading similarly questionable if not outright inflammatory content on the site, however, as shitpost mods such as the so-called "Extra Progressive Pride Mod" was submitted by a presumed Mike Hawk sockpuppet (or a copycat account) which juxtaposes both the gay and transgender flag colours with the [[Nazi]] [[swastika]], only for it to be deleted not long after for obvious reasons (along with a thinly-veiled mirror thereof by another troll<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20220912024019/https://www.nexusmods.com/marvelsspidermanremastered/mods/1883 They Live New York (archived)]</ref>), as well as the [[Joe Rogan]] Podcast t-shirt texture mod which edits the Empire State University shirt into a sardonic design of Sonic the Hedgehog and Shadow kissing each other and "THE JOE ROGAN PODCAST" scrawled on the shirt, likely as a veiled reference to Rogan's homophobic views in an effort to dodge censorship by the site's moderators.<ref>[https://www.nexusmods.com/marvelsspidermanremastered/mods/744 Joe Rogan Podcast T-Shirt] [https://archive.ph/J2uq3 (archive)]</ref>

==The typical gay agenda...==

===Perceived Agenda...===

*'''8:00am''' - Wake up.
*'''8:30am''' - Go to gym lusting after locker-room genitals.
*'''12:30pm''' - Light a scented candle and moan over its lusciousness.
*'''1:30pm''' - Inspire schoolboys to be transgendered ballerinas.
*'''5:00pm''' - Take cocktail of AIDS pills.
*'''5:10pm''' - Take cocktail of ecstasy, xanax, oxycontin, and paint thinner.
*'''6:15pm''' - Glory hole.
*'''7:00pm''' - Send mixed signals with strange beard and ironic masculine clothes.
*'''7:30pm''' - Work in cliché fashion job making tons of money.
*'''8:00pm''' - Donate money to fake news.
*'''9:30pm''' - Fill hole in soul with gross unprotected gay-man-sex.
*'''11:10pm''' - Drag reluctant [[pregnant]] friend to [[abortion]] clinic.
*'''11:20pm''' - Send text message to secret [[DAESH|ISIS]] boyfriend in Syria.

===Actual Agenda===

*'''8:00am''' - Wake up.
*'''8:30am''' - Go to work.
*'''9:00am''' - Work.
*'''12:30pm''' - Quick lunch with some workmates.
*'''1:30pm''' - Work some more.
*'''3:00pm''' - Buy groceries at the local market.
*'''5:30pm''' - Call parents for a bit.
*'''6:00pm''' - Make dinner for/with partner
*'''7:00pm''' - Eat.
*'''8:30pm''' - Watch episode of ''Grey's Anatomy''.
*'''10:30pm''' - Go to bed.

==Queer Agenda==
The "Queer Agenda" is an updated version of the "Gay Agenda" conspiracy theory that has evolved to reflect broader LGBTQ+ activism in the 21st century. It is often cited by contemporary anti-gender movements as a supposed threat to traditional social structures, making it a favorite bogeyman of reactionary groups. Like the earlier "Gay Agenda", the "Queer Agenda" is a [[conspiracy theory]] rather than an actual movement. Common accusations made by anti-gender reactionaries include:
*Education panic: Claims that LGBTQ+ inclusion in school curriculums is a form of "indoctrination" or "grooming."
*Legal alarmism: Fears that anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people infringe upon religious freedom.
*Gender essentialism: Assertions that non-binary and transgender identities are a threat to "biological reality" and traditional roles.
*[[Declinism|Moral decline narratives]]: Linking increased LGBTQ+ visibility to the decline of societal morality and stability.

==See also==
*[[Gender ideology]]

==External links==
{{fun|Gay agenda}}
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20091024040510/http://geocities.com/WestHollywood/Village/9299/speech.html Iowa House representative reveals the non-existence of the homosexual agenda!]
*[[Barney Frank]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0h5Vtke3OA admits the agenda and codifies it!]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100512172046/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-id4GKsaQk Lewis Black: Gay Banditos]
*[http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,015.htm The Heterosexual Agenda: Exposing the Myths]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110703074722/http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/06/28/the-gays-are-coming-a-short-history-of-homophobic-documentaries/ The Gays are Coming: A Short History of Homophobic Documentaries]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CstD6O95L-o& LZ Granderson: The Myth of the Gay Agenda (TED Talk)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20000511082052/http://www.bettybowers.com/homoagenda.html The Homosexual Agenda Revealed!] on [[Betty Bowers]]
*[https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/10-anti-gay-myths-debunked/ 10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked], [[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEl1ye_OPJs Boys Beware], a short 
propaganda piece
 PSA film from the 1960s.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081027141520/http://www.aim.org/media-monitor/homosexual-recruitment-in-schools/ Homosexual recruitment in schools], [[Accuracy in Media]]
*[https://theonion.com/98-homosexual-recruitment-drive-nearing-goal-1819564785/ 1998 Homosexual Recruitment Drive Nearing Goal], from [[The Onion]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3fD5FPQBtI The Real Gay Agenda. (PARODY)] Makes just as much sense as [[Fred Phelps]] does.

==Notes==
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