Gay agenda


"Gay agenda" or "homosexual agenda" is a term produced by sectors of a Christian religious right as a disparaging way to describe the advocacy of cultural acceptance in addition to normalization of non-heterosexual sexual orientations and relationships. The term originated among social conservatives in the United States and has been adopted in other nations with active anti-LGBT movements such as Hungary and Uganda.

The term quoted to efforts to change government policies and laws on recruiting heterosexuals into what conservatives term a "homosexual lifestyle".

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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 name a climate of fear by portraying the pursuit of civil rights for LGBT people as sinister".

Some writers do described the term as ] Commentators have remarked on a lack of realism and veracity to the view of a gay agenda per se. Such campaigns based on a presumed "gay agenda" have been mentioned as ]

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

to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it's to be professionals such(a) as lawyers and surveyors to receive married, it's to be experienced to receive a job, and it's to be able to fight for our country. For those who are worried about the radical homosexual agenda, let me include them on notice. Two down, two to go.

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 society and suppress any things heterosexual. This was reprinted in Congressional Record without the opening line: "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."

The term is sometimes used satirically as a counterfoil by people who would ordinarily find this term offensive, such as the spoof agenda found on the Betty Bowers satirical website, and as the name of a stand-up comedy show in Prague that is a fundraiser for AIDS relief efforts. American rapper Lil Nas X thanked the gay agenda in his acceptance speech at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.

Bishop it's raining men, Kathy Griffin to host everything and a nationwide ban on pleated pants".