e Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s
"After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s" is a book published in 1989 by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen. The book is an extended version of the "Overhauling of Straight America" essay. It argues that after the gay liberation phase of the 1970s and 1980s, gay rights groups should adopt more professional public relations techniques to convey their message.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) describes the term 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 as sinister", and commentators have remarked on a lack of realism and veracity to the idea of a gay agenda per se. Such campaigns based on a presumed "gay agenda" have been described as anti-gay propaganda by researchers and critics. GLAAD describes the association of homosexuality with pedophilia or child abuse as an attempt to "insinuate that lesbians and gay men pose a threat to society, to families, and to children in particular." GLAAD considers assertions linking pedophilia and homosexuality to be defamatory, damaging and entirely inaccurate. Some writers have described the term as pejorative.
to be protected against violent crimes driven by bigotry, it's to be able to get married, it's to be able to get 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 put 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 all 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 normally find this term offensive, such as the spoof agenda found on the Betty Bowers satirical website, and when Bishop Gene Robinson declared that "Jesus is the agenda, the homosexual agenda in the Episcopal Church". On an episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart defined the gay agenda as "gay marriage, civil rights protection, Fleet Week expanded to Fleet Year, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assistance for when it's raining men, Kathy Griffin to host everything and a nationwide ban on pleated pants."
- Anti-LGBT slogans
- Culture war
- Gay Mafia
- Homosexual recruitment
- Human Rights Campaign
- Societal attitudes toward homosexuality
- Moulitsas, Markos (May 5, 2005). "Kissing the tarantula: US blogger Markos Moulitsas marvels at the Tories' attempts to woo the gay vote, in stark contrast to the stance of US conservatives". The Guardian.
To the newly elected Republican senator from Oklahoma, Tom Coburn, the "gay agenda" is a more pressing danger than terrorists flying planes into buildings and killing allied troops in Iraq. "The gay community has infiltrated the very centres of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power ... That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today," he said during the 2004 campaign. "Why do you think we see the rationalisation for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That's a gay agenda."
- Hate Group: 'Homosexual Activists' Try To 'Confuse Children' To 'Build Their Numbers' Think Progress July 9, 2012.
- Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues U.S. Evangelist
- Bryan Fischer Slams Gay Rights, Abortion And Environmentalism As 'The Work Of Satan Himself'
- Caiden Cowger, Conservative Teen Radio Host, Slams President Obama For "Making Kids Gay"
- Anti-gay Maryland legislator, Emmett Burns, moves again to cut off recognition of out-of-state gay marriages
- Yeh, Becky (June 16, 2011). "'Gay' indoctrination a reality". OneNewsNow. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
- Herman, Didi (1997 (ebook, 2007)