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[[Image:Hendricks-leboeuf.jpg|thumb|Extending marriage rights to [[Same-sex marriage|same-sex couples]] is considered by conservatives as part of the "Homosexual agenda"]] |
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"'''Homosexual agenda'''" (or "'''gay agenda'''") is a term used by [[social conservatism|social conservatives]] in the [[United States]] to describe the goal of increasing the acceptance and equality of [[LGBT]] ([[Lesbian]], [[Gay]], [[Bisexual]], and [[Transgender]]) people through public policies, media exposure, and cultural change. The term is most often employed by social conservatives in debates over [[LGBT rights in the United States]]. Some believe that this agenda is a secret one.<ref name="osten">Osten, Craig (2003). [http://www.citizenlink.org/CLFeatures/A000000562.cfm "Q&A: The Homosexual Agenda"]</ref> |
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The term is offensive to many,<ref name="glaad">{{cite web|url=http://www.glaad.org/media/guide/offensive.php|title=Offensive Terminology to Avoid|publisher=GLAAD}}</ref> particularly those who view the goals of the movement to be equal rights. Sometimes those who would be offended by a serious reference to this term still use it satirically or sarcastically.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gene-stone/finally-the-homosexual-a_b_20637.html Finally, the Homosexual Agenda, in Five Words or Less]</ref><ref>[http://www.bettybowers.com/homoagenda.html The Homosexual Agenda]</ref><ref>Bishop [[Gene Robinson]], addressing the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on [[14 June]] [[2006]], for example, declared that "Jesus is the homosexual agenda in the Episcopal Church".</ref> |
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Some issues often listed as included in the agenda are debated today in the United States, from [[same-sex marriage]], to [[LGBT rights in the united states#Anti-discrimination laws|anti-discrimination laws]], to [[hate crime]] legislation, and more. Arguments from [[sexual ethics|sexual morality]] and [[LGBT rights opposition#Religious and philosophical|religious objections]] to same-sex relations, as well as [[civil rights]] arguments, are common in these discussions. |
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== Use of the term == |
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The term "''the gay agenda''" was first used for political purposes in 1992 when the [[Family Research Council]] published a video series called ''The Gay Agenda'' as part of a pack of materials campaigning on [[homosexual]] issues and the "hidden gay agenda".<ref>(Herman 1997) page 67</ref> In the same year the [[Oregon Citizens Alliance]] used this video as part of their campaign for [[Oregon Ballot Measure 9 (1992)|Ballot Measure 9]] to amend the Oregon Constitution to prevent what the OCA called "special rights" for gays, [[lesbian]]s, and [[bisexual]]s.<ref>(Signorile 1993) page 337-339</ref> [[Paul Cameron]] (co-founder of the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality in Lincoln, later to be renamed the [[Family Research Institute]]) appeared as an expert in ''The Gay Agenda'' video, his claims including that 75 percent of gay men regularly ingest fecal material and that 70-78 percent have had a [[sexually transmitted disease]].<ref>(Herman 1997) page 78</ref> ''The Gay Agenda'' was followed by three other video publications; ''The Gay Agenda in Public Education'' (1993), ''The Gay Agenda: March on Washington'' (1993) and a feature follow-up ''Stonewall: 25 Years of Deception'' (1994). All these videos contain interviews with [[Anti-gay|anti-gay]] experts, and the series is widely available through [[Christian right]] organizations.<ref>(Herman 1997) page 80-81</ref> |
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The similar phrase "homosexual agenda" appears in many forums from political commentary to [[talk radio]], and even once in 2003 by the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] Justice [[Antonin Scalia]], who wrote in his dissent in the landmark case ''[[Lawrence v. Texas]]'' that the "law-profession culture... has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct."<ref>Scalia, Antonin (2003). "[http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=02-102#dissent1 John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner, petitioners v. Texas]". FindLaw: Lawrence et al. v. Texas (June 2003).</ref><ref>(Cobb, 2006) page 161</ref> |
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In 2005, [[James Dobson]], director of [[Focus on the Family]], a [[Christian]] non-profit organization based in the United States, and a social Christian conservative commentator in American popular media, described the homosexual agenda as follows: |
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<blockquote>Those goals include universal acceptance of the gay lifestyle, discrediting of [[Bible|scriptures]] that condemn homosexuality, muzzling of the clergy and Christian media, granting of special privileges and rights in the law, overturning laws prohibiting [[pedophilia]], indoctrinating children and future generations through public education, and securing all the legal benefits of marriage for any two or more people who claim to have homosexual tendencies.<ref>Dobson, Dr. James (2005). "[http://www.family.org/docstudy/bookshelf/a0032438.cfm Marriage Under Fire]".</ref><!--dead link?--></blockquote> |
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===''After the Ball''=== |
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In 2003 [[Alan Sears]] and Craig Osten, president and vice-president of the [[Alliance Defense Fund]], an American conservative Christian non-profit organization, offered another characterization: |
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<blockquote>It is an agenda that they basically set in the late 1980s, in a book called ''After the Ball''<ref name=Kirk>(Kirk 1989)</ref>, where they laid out a six-point plan for how they could transform the beliefs of ordinary Americans with regard to homosexual behavior — in a decade-long time frame.... They admit it privately, but they will not say that publicly. In their private publications, homosexual activists make it very clear that there is an agenda. The six-point agenda that they laid out in 1989 was explicit: Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible... Portray gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers... Give homosexual protectors a just cause... Make gays look good... Make the victimizers look bad... Get funds from corporate America.<ref name="osten" /></blockquote> |
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''After the Ball''<ref name=Kirk/> is a book published in 1989 by [[Marshall Kirk]] and Hunter Madsen. It argues that after the "[[gay liberation]]" phase of the '70s and '80s, gay rights groups should adopt more professional public relations techniques to convey their message. It was not a "private publication", but was publicly available, having been published by [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], one of the largest publishers in the world. |
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According to the [[Christian Broadcasting Network]], Sears and Osten argue that ''After the Ball'' follows from "a 1988 summit of gay leaders in [[Warrenton, Virginia]], who came together to agree on the agenda" and that "the two men [Kirk and Madsen] proposed using tactics on '[[heterosexual|straight]]' America that are remarkably similar to the [[brainwashing]] methods of [[Mao Tse-Tung]]'s [[Communist China|Communist Chinese]] -- mixed with [[Madison Avenue#Advertising industry|Madison Avenue]]'s most persuasive selling techniques."<ref>[http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/060113d.aspx Paul Strand, Homosexual Agenda Pushed in Movies Like Brokeback Mountain, CBN]</ref> The article goes on to claim that films such as ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' are part of this "well-planned [[propaganda]] campaign". |
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== Opposition to the term's use == |
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Groups such as the [[Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation]] (GLAAD), an American non-profit organization, deny the existence of any secret agenda. They state that their major goal is to end [[discrimination]] in housing, employment and public accommodations and to achieve [[social equality|equality]] for [[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[bisexuality|bisexual]] and [[transgender]] ([[LGBT]]) persons. These groups describe 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".<ref name="glaad" /> |
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Some members of the LGBT community consider their political goals to be too heterogeneous to be grouped together into one single agenda.<ref> |
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{{cite web |
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| last =Bouley II |
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| first =Charles Karel |
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| title =The gay agenda revealed! |
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| publisher =Advocate |
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| date =2005 |
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| url =http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail.asp?id=00818 |
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| accessdate =2007-08-26 }}</ref> |
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== Michael Swift's essay == |
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Some commentators allege a more radical "homosexual agenda", quoting a [[satire|satirical]] article authored by Michael Swift which first appeared in the ''[[Gay Community News (Boston)|Gay Community News]]'' in [[February 1987]]. Originally titled "Gay Revolutionary", the article describes a scenario in which homosexual men dominate [[American society]] and suppress all things [[heterosexual]].<ref>[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/swift1.html Fordham University: Michael Swift - Gay Revolutionary (the complete essay)]</ref> The article was reprinted in ''[[Congressional Record]]'' without an opening disclaimer in which the author states that the essay is intended as "outré, madness, a tragic, cruel fantasy, an eruption of inner rage, on how the oppressed desperately dream of being the oppressor", suggesting it is a satirical piece of literary [[hyperbole]], and is not intended by its author to be taken literally.<ref>[http://rainbowallianceopenfaith.homestead.com/GayAgenda.html Rainbow alliance, ''The Gay Agenda: How The Conservative Religious Right Created a Lie'']</ref> |
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Nonetheless, the essay has been repeatedly cited by the [[Religious Right]] and others who describe themselves as socially [[Social conservatism|conservative]] or [[Traditionalist School|philosophically traditional]] in their [[world view]], as evidence that some (or most) members of the [[gay community]] seek to dominate and destroy traditional [[United States|American]] [[family values]].<ref>Cindy Patton: ''"Tremble, Heteroswine!"'' in (Warner 1993) p143-177</ref> |
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==Footnotes== |
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==References== |
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| title = God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence |
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| publisher =NYU Press |
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| date =2006 |
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| pages =208 pages |
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| last =Herman |
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| first =Didi |
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| title =The antigay agenda: orthodox vision and the Christian Right |
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| publisher =University of Chicago Press |
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| date =1997 |
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| pages =242 pages |
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| isbn =0226327647 }} |
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*{{cite book |
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| last =Kirk |
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| first =Marshall |
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| authorlink =Marshall Kirk |
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| title = After the ball: how America will conquer its fear and hatred of gays in the '90s |
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| coauthors=Hunter Madsen |
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| publisher =Doubleday |
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| date =1989 |
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| pages =398 pages |
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| id = ISBN 0312023723 }} |
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*{{cite book |
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| last =Signorile |
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| authorlink =Michelangelo Signorile |
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| title = Queer in America: sex, the media, and the closets of power |
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| publisher =Random House |
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| date =1993 |
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| pages =378 pages |
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| isbn =067941309X }} |
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*{{cite book |
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| last =Warner |
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| authorlink =Michael Warner |
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| title = Fear of a queer planet: queer politics and social theory |
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| publisher =University of Minnesota Press |
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| date =1993 |
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| pages =334 pages |
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| id = ISBN 0816623341 }} |
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== See also == |
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{{Col-begin}} |
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{{Col-2}} |
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*[[Anti-LGBT slogans]] |
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*[[Culture war]] |
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*[[Declaration of Montreal]] |
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*[[Gay Mafia]] |
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*[[Heterosexism]] |
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{{Col-2}} |
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*[[Homosexual recruitment]] |
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*[[LGBT rights in the United States]] |
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*[[LGBT rights opposition]] |
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*[[LGBT social movements]] |
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[[Category:Discrimination in the United States]] |
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[[Category:Homophobia]] |
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[[Category:LGBT rights movement]] |
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[[Category:American political terms]] |
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[[Category:Conspiracy theories]] |
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[[pl:Propaganda homoseksualna]] |
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[[ru:Пропаганда гомосексуализма]] |
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