Homosexual Agenda
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The Homosexual Agenda is an article authored by Michael Swift and first appearing in a February 1987 issue of GCN (Gay Community News). Originally titled Gay Revolutionary, it is also often referred to as The Homosexual Agenda. The article describes a scenario in which homosexual men dominate American society and suppress all things heterosexual.
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[edit] The First Line
[edit] Hyperbole or literally?
The essay's first line (which was added after the article was written and first published) 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...
suggesting it is a satirical piece of literary hyperbole, and is not intended by its author to be taken as literally. Nonetheless, the essay has been repeatedly cited by Christians, and others who describe themselves as socially conservative or philosophically traditional in their world view, as evidence that some (or most) of members of the gay community seeks to dominate and destroy traditional American family values[citation needed], and as such, the article has been inserted into the Congressional Record[citation needed].
[edit] See also
- Satire
- Hyperbole
- Literal vs figurative language.
- Socially conservative
- Philosophically Traditional
- Homosexual agenda as a cultural issue
[edit] Reference
- Cindy Patton: "Tremble, Heteroswine!" in Michael Warner (ed) Fear of A Queer Planet: Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press: 1993: ISBN 0-8166-2333-3
