"Gay agenda" or "homosexual agenda" is a

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term for the normalization of

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sexual orientations. The term has been used to disparage advocacy for

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, rooted in the belief that LGBTQ activists seek to recruit heterosexuals into a "

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". The term "gay agenda" originated within the

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in the United States, and has been adopted in nations with active

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movements such as

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and

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Origins and usage

Origins

In the

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, the phrase "gay agenda" was popularized by a video series produced by a California evangelical religious group called Springs of Life Ministries. The first video of the series, ''The Gay Agenda'', was released in 1992 and distributed to hundreds of

Christian right The Christian right are Christian political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies. Christian conservatives seek to influence politics and public policy with their interpretation ...

organizations. It showed edited clips of San Francisco's

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parade with voice-over commentary alleging "an aggressive nationwide offensive" to force acceptance of the homosexual "lifestyle", alongside claims that 17 percent of homosexuals eat human feces and that 28 percent engage in

sodomy Sodomy (), also called buggery in British English, principally refers to either anal sex (but occasionally also oral sex) between people, or any Human sexual activity, sexual activity between a human and another animal (Zoophilia, bestiality). I ...

with over 1,000 partners. Tens of thousands of copies of the video were distributed nationwide, and it was shown by televangelist Pat Robertson on ''

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'' in 1993. Commandant of the Marine Corps

Carl Mundy Jr. Carl Epting Mundy Jr. (July 16, 1935 – April 2, 2014) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general who served as the 30th Commandant of the Marine Corps and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from July 1, 1991, until his retirement o ...

gave the video to the other members of Joint Chiefs of Staff, and copies were sent to the United States Congress. In 1992, the

Oregon Citizens Alliance The Oregon Citizens Alliance (OCA) was a conservative Christian political activist organization, founded by Lon Mabon in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was founded in 1986 as a vehicle to challenge then– U.S. Senator Bob Packwood in the Republican ...

(OCA) used the video in their campaign for

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in opposition to what the OCA called "

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" for gays,

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s, and

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s. ''The Gay Agenda'' was followed by three other video productions made available through Christian right organizations and containing interviews with opponents of LGBTQ rights, intended to expose the lesbian and gay movement's secret plans for America: ''The Gay Agenda in Public Education'' (1993), ''The Gay Agenda: March on Washington'' (1993), and a feature-length follow-up to the original, ''Stonewall: 25 Years of Deception'' (1994).

Usage in the United States

The term "gay agenda" or "radical gay agenda" has been used by members of the Christian right to demonize advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (

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) rights, such as

same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal Legal sex and gender, sex. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 38 countries, with a total population of 1.5 ...

and

civil unions A civil union (also known as a Civil partnership in the United Kingdom, civil partnership) is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, primarily created to provide legal recognition for Same-sex relationship, same-sex couples. Civi ...

LGBTQ adoption Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children or adults by same-sex couples. It may take the form of a joint adoption by the couple, or of the adoption by one partner of the other's biological child or adult (stepchild adoption). Joint adopti ...

, recognizing sexual orientation as a protected civil rights minority classification, LGBTQ military participation, inclusion of

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and themes in

public education A state school, public school, or government school is a primary school, primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation and operated by the government of the state. State-f ...

, introduction of

anti-bullying legislation Anti-bullying legislation is legislation enacted to help reduce and eliminate bullying. This legislation may be national or sub-national and is commonly aimed at ending bullying in schools or workplaces. According to one study, state-level anti-bu ...

to protect LGBTQ minors—as well as non-governmental campaigns and individual actions that increase visibility and cultural acceptance of LGBT people, relationships, and identities. The term has also been used by some

social conservatives Social conservatism is a political philosophy and a variety of conservatism which places emphasis on traditional social structures over social pluralism. Social conservatives organize in favor of duty, traditional values and social instit ...

to describe alleged goals of

activists, such as supposed

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of heterosexuals into a "homosexual lifestyle". Columnist

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writes that the idea of a "homosexual agenda" to subvert American cultural and family institutions largely replaced earlier panic over the "

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", an alleged gay conspiracy to undermine the U.S. government. The term has been used in response to efforts to include protections for LGBTQ people under local and state

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s, as well as U.S. Supreme Court cases that granted new rights to LGBTQ individuals, such as ''

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'' and ''

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'', which respectively held that private acts of consensual sex between same-sex couples and the right of same-sex couples to marry were fundamental rights guaranteed under the

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of the U.S. Constitution. In his 2003 dissent in ''Lawrence'', U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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said the court had become embroiled in a

culture war A culture war is a form of cultural conflict (metaphorical " war") between different social groups who struggle to politically impose their own ideology (moral beliefs, humane virtues, and religious practices) upon mainstream society, or upon ...

by seeking to protect homosexuals from discrimination, writing that the decision reflected a "law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda". Conservative Christian groups such as the

American Family Association The American Family Association (AFA) is a conservative and Christian fundamentalist 501(c)(3) organization based in the United States.

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(ADF), the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-Fam), and the

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(WCF) have used the term in their literature. According to its website, ADF has litigated numerous anti–gay rights cases in countries outside the US, in order to combat the "homosexual agenda" which it claims will "destroy marriage and undermine religious freedom". ADF president Alan Sears published a book in 2003 titled ''The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today'', which argues that overturning anti-sodomy laws would lead to the legalization of pedophilia,

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, and bestiality. American conservative Christian groups such as the

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(FRC) have cited fears of a "homosexual agenda" in lobbying against extending hate-crime legislation to cover acts motivated by bias against a person's

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring personal pattern of romantic attraction or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Patterns ar ...

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, as well as public-school curricula about homosexuality introduced in an effort to reduce bullying. American conservative Christian organizations have continued public screenings of videos alleging a homosexual agenda as of 2022.

Usage outside the United States

Africa

American

organizations that are losing acceptance among Americans have had more success promoting the notion of a gay agenda in Africa. Examples include

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American Center for Law & Justice The American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) is a politically conservative, Christian-based legal organization in the United States. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and associated with Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, ...

and

Family Watch International Family Watch International (FWI) is a fundamentalist Christian lobbying organization. Founded in 1999, the organization opposes homosexuality, legal abortion, birth control, comprehensive sex education, and other things that it regards as threats ...

. Zambian scholar

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considers these organizations colonial powers, working to expand American dominance of Africa. In Africa, fear of a "Western gay agenda" is frequently used by opponents of LGBTQ rights. The concept was used in a series of talks in 2009 by American evangelical Christians in

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. A speaker at one such workshop said, feels it is necessary to draft a new law that deals comprehensively with the issue of homosexuality and ..takes into account the international gay agenda." The eventual result of this campaign was the

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(nicknamed the "Kill the Gays Bill"), which imposed the

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for homosexual behavior; this was altered to life imprisonment after the loss of foreign aid was threatened by other countries including the U.S., and the law was later ruled invalid by the

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. In 2021, the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference called for LGBTQ rights organizations to be kicked out of their office space in

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because of the belief that they promote the homosexual agenda.

Europe

In Hungary,

László Toroczkai László Toroczkai (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian politician, journalist, leader of the Far-right politics, far-right Our Homeland Movement political party, and former mayor of Ásotthalom. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly ...

, former vice president of the far-right political party

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, has complained of the perceived "homosexual agenda". Toroczkai introduced a law banning public displays of affection by gay people in 2017.

Central America

Before

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, the LGBT and anti-AIDS organization United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) was lambasted in the ''

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'' newspaper and by American evangelicals who accused the group of trying to bring the "gay 'agenda to the country.

International organizations

In 2019, two prominent

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cardinals –

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and

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– wrote an open letter to

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calling for an end of "the plague of the homosexual agenda" to which they in part attributed the sexual abuse crisis engulfing the Catholic Church. They claimed the agenda was spread by "organized networks" protected by a "conspiracy of silence". Speakers from many nations inveigh against the perceived homosexual agenda at the

annual summit, a focal point of the worldwide "

pro-family Family values, sometimes referred to as familial values, are traditional or cultural values that pertain to the family's structure, function, roles, beliefs, attitudes, and ideals. Additionally, the concept of family values may be understood as ...

" movement.

Responses

The

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(GLAAD) describes the terms "gay agenda" and "homosexual agenda" as a "rhetorical invention of

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extremists seeking to create a climate of fear by portraying the pursuit of civil rights for LGBT people as sinister". Some writers have described the term as

. Commentators have remarked on a lack of realism and veracity to the idea of a gay agenda ''

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''. Such campaigns based on a presumed "gay agenda" have been described as anti-gay propaganda by researchers and critics. At a press conference on December 22, 2010, U.S. Representative

Barney Frank Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is a retired American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, Frank served as chairman of th ...

said that the "gay agenda" is

Satire

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1987 essay by Michael Swift entitled "" appeared in '' Gay Community News'', describing a scenario in which homosexual men dominate

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and suppress all things heterosexual. The opening line, which read "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", was omitted when the essay was reprinted in ''

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'' and cited by later religious right publications. The essay has often been cited by conservative Christian authors as proof of a secretive conspiracy to corrupt American youth and subvert the

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, particularly the following paragraph: The term is sometimes used satirically as a counterfoil by people who would normally find the term offensive, such as the spoof agenda found on the

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website, and as the name of a stand-up comedy show in

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that is a fundraiser for AIDS relief efforts. On a 2007 episode of ''

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'',

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defined the gay agenda as "

gay marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 38 countries, with a total population of 1.5 billion people (20% ...

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' political freedom, freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and ...

protection,

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expanded to Fleet Year,

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(FEMA) assistance for when it's raining men,

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to host everything and a nationwide ban on pleated pants".

Reappropriation

Some LGBTQ activists seek to

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the term "gay agenda" for their own use. In 2008, openly gay Bishop

Gene Robinson Vicky Gene Robinson (born May 29, 1947) is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. Robinson was elected Coadjutor bishop, bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as bishop diocesan in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he se ...

declared that "Jesus is the agenda, the homosexual agenda in the Episcopal Church" and that the "homosexual agenda ..is Jesus". A

political action committee In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation. The l ...

(PAC) named Agenda PAC was inspired by the notion of the gay agenda. The PAC is led by LGBTQ politicians including

Malcolm Kenyatta Malcolm Kenyatta (born July 30, 1990) is an American politician from the North Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he serves as the Pennsylvania state representative for the 181st distric ...

and Megan Hunt, and advocates for greater LGBTQ political representation. American rapper

Lil Nas X Montero Lamar Hill (born April 9, 1999), better known by his stage name Lil Nas X ( ), is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. He rose to prominence with the release of his 2018 country rap single "Old Town Road," the longest-running nu ...

thanked the "gay agenda" in his acceptance speech at the 2021

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References

External links

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