Oh Noes! Gays In The Locker Rooms! Whatever Shall We Do? (thread)

This thread will contain examples of how modern transphobia recycles homophobia from years past

The Daily Utah Chronicle 1998-04-06
We Must Consider Who Works the Locker Room
Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) 1993-12-03
Bias against gays on the job often subtle, difficult to thwart
The Post-Crescent 1977-11-14

'There is the "lavender Martian myth," that gay people are avaricious, rapacious, not quite human. The "lavender plague myth" seems to hold that homosexualism is a disease, a sickness, a contagion and that young people are particularly susceptible.'
The Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, IL) 1977-06-14
Homosexuality influential

"It is not that we should condemn but it should be treated (medically if you like) just as we would treat any contagious disease, "
Philadelphia Daily News (Philly, Penn.) 1974-04-19

"I don't care what anyone says, I refuse to regard homosexuals and lesbians as normal people."
[...]
"Too much publicity and attention has already resulted in a lot of contagious homosexuality."
The Province (Vancouver, BC, Canada) 1973-02-01

"unrelated to the classical pattern"

"no early signs of homosexual attachment"

"I believe that social interaction played a large part in its development"

Must be Rapid Onset Homosexuality, right?
The Indianapolis News 1974-04-20
What About Rights Of Heterosexuals?

'[...] They proudly go public, as it were, and begin proselytizing, and in so doing invade the privacy of us benighted heterosexuals. And that's when I cry, "Whoa!" We have our rights, too. '
The Tennessean 1989-09-20

"A governmental task force report that blames fundamentalism for encouraging homosexual teen suicide should anger Southern Baptists that tax dollars are being used to "attack religion," Baptist leaders were told yesterday."
The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) 1997-07-20

'There's a certain Hollywood-style Inevitability about the case of Andrew Phillip Cunanan, the homosexual hustler who's believed to be America's newest and most lurid mass murderer. : Gay "rage," both real and bogus, directed...'
The Ottowa Journal 1979-08-13
Obviously unrepresentative homosexual extremists have strained sympathies by their demands that homosexuality be accepted as an alternative lifestyle, [...] demanding that homosexuals should have the right to explain their way of life in the schools.
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 1964-03-15

"Lesbians, or female homosexuals, are often arrested for assault when [...]. Homosexuals are intense, sometimes unstable, and often don't accept reality, according to Policewoman Mather."
The Daily Chronicle, 1977-04-12

"50 per cent of the suicides and murders in America's larger cities can be attributed to homosexuals. Even the most cursory examination of homosexual magazines reveals that seduction of children is part of the typical homosexual behavior pattern"
"But what about DESISTERS?!"

The Coos Bay Times, 1956-10-04

Since many of these youths are not "true homosexuals," they are misled by Kinsey statistics, [...] They revert" to healthy sexuality, he said, but they're forever after "burdened with damaging guilt and self-doubt."
Hat tip @mimmymum https://twitter.com/mimmymum/status/1101033136924827648

July 1990
“...so bad that young girl players were scared to go into tournament changing rooms...”
The Ottawa Citizen 2002-12-18

Locker room ban prompts lesbian to sue school
Los Angeles Times, 1992-04-06
"- No Drinking.
- No Drugs.
- No Lesbians."
The News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware) 1990-01-28

"These kids will grow out of it"
The Courier-Journal (Lousiville, KY) 1975-10-25

"A leader of a local women's rights group said yesterday that pickets will march outside the studios of WAVE-TV tonight to protest the airing of a movie they say gives a dangerous and unfair picture of lesbians and rape. "
Carrizozo Lincoln County News, page 4 1985-08-01

"Director Patrick Fagan noted that the Louisiana Chapter of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) recently withdrew from the national organization over the issue of lesbian infiltration"
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 1985-08-10

"...group representing most of the nation's 877 women's shelters...

The coalition has a lesbian task force that deals with such issues as discrimination against lesbian shelter workers and fear of homosexuals."
Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY, USA), 1975-12-07
ERA backers unfeminine

Too much here to unpack in a tweet. Let's just say it is hitting a lot of notes.
Chicago Tribune 1990-09-02

'Specifically, the admiral warned of a "predator-type environment," in which "more senior and aggressive female sailors" exert "subtle coersion" or "outright sexual advances" on their "young, often vulnerable" female colleagues. '
The Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL) 1986-04-24
"There are only two sexes male and female, of which there are no sub-groups. In essence, homosexuals have created homosexual and bisexual sub-groups. Hence we have demonstrations for homosexual rights under the euphemism, 'gay rights.'"
The Signal (Santa Clara, CA) 1996-08-13
"We are still man (XY) and woman (XX). They have found no chromosome for homosexuality."

"They have with physical violence, intimidation and threats caused the medical community to say homosexuality is not a deviant or perverted lifestyle"
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) 2003-05-25

"study...found that 75 percent of boys who at age 16 think they are homosexual will become permanently heterosexual by age 25"
The Salina Journal (Salina, KS) 1998-07-24

"Gay rights activists are out to silence anyone who disagrees with their radical agenda"
Enterprise-Journal (McComb, MI) 1998-10-11

"Towards an open debate on homosexual behavior"

"In defense of free speech"

"Just because we disagree doesn't make us homophobic"
The Daily Herald (Provo, UT) 1997-09-28

"Disagree with the American Psychological Association's latest resolution, and you can expect your name to become synonymous with ignorance, intolerance, hatred and homophobia."
The Age (Melbourne, Aus) 1999-05-28

"It is grossly unfair and misleading for those who work to win recruits to homosexual practice to blame those who discourage such recruiting for the suicide of homosexuals."
The Bee (Danville, VA) 1977-11-21

"Betty Friedan, considered the mother of the modern feminist movement, admitted she had been wrong in crusading to keep lesbians out of the movement for years, calling lesbians 'the lavender menace.'"
The Daily Utah Chronicle (SLC, UT) 1993-10-21

"It is ludicrous to compare the plight of homosexuals to that of other genuine fights for civil rights, such as blacks."
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 1973-02-04

"Some straight women fear that lesbians will take over their organizations"

"...ization for women conducted a purge of lesbians and lesbian sympathizers"

"But all they do is mock the male-female roles which are rigidly sexist."
Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home, AK) 1999-03-09
Don' t buy the lie about homosexuality

"Medically speaking we are born with a combinations of only two chromosomes, the "X" and/or the "Y," ....born either male or female...there is no medical proof of a homosexual propensity gene."
Calgary Herald, 1970-06-13
US Psychiatrist Warns of Homosexual 'Epidemic'
The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) 2000-10-11

'They are not homophobic or bigoted or intolerant. They are just concerned that public schools might be presenting "controversial issues to our children"'
The Guardian, 1990-05-28
"The gay community [...]feel helpless in the face of the daily barrage of hate [...] our complaints to the Press Council had been repeatedly rejected. The Council did not-and still does not-accept that press homophobia incites hatred against homosexuals."
The Guardian, 1998-11-02
How the Sun came out

'October 1990: [...] Islington Council's Woman's Therapy Centre "encourages confused women to become lesbians" says Caroline Graham.'
The Ithica Journal (Ithica, NY) 1996-08-24

"Homosexuals suffer from heterophobia."
The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), 2000-06-05

"homosexual invectives and threats have effectively shut down most attempts to expose bogus research or [...] so many of our politicians, our journalists, [... ] intimidated into passive assent, or cowed into silence."
Star-Phoenix (Saskatoon, Canada) 2000-05-17

"The well-funded and well-connected homosexual activist movement has become the McCarthyism of the 21st century. Opposition to any of its goals is tantamount to ... being Communist sympathizers. The topic is not open to de-ate."
1960s PSA "Homosexuals: The Terrible Truth"

"It used to be a rare thing for a juvenile...but look at these recent numbers"
The Observer (London) 1991-03-17

"Anna was speaking in a week that saw demands for an immediate ban on artificial insemination for virgins or women who were not in a stable heterosexual relationship."

"There have been articles talking about disgusting lesbian perverts"
The Signal (Santa Clarita, California). 1999-01-15

"I had experienced nothing but name-calling and hatred when expressing my concern as a parent. The homosexual cult demands tolerance but they do not return the same."
Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) 1994-03-05

"If any group in America displays tactics similar to those employed by the Nazis, it is the so-called gay rights movement"

"The mainstream homosexual lobby, in true Hitlerian style, has targeted our children..."
Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) 1994-10-20

"The OCA is sponsor of an anti-gay-rights measure on the Nov. 8 ballot and has used the alleged Nazi-homosexual connection in its campaign. [...] says, "Nazism was largely an outgrowth of Germany's gay rights movement."
The Capital Times (Madison, WI) 1998-07-14

"that the homosexual movement is a fascist one which tolerates no deviations from its philosophy and agenda,"
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) 2000-04-15

"we place a high premium on role models for confused kids. And we just don't believe that children, many of them who are sexually confused, should have a role model that's openly homosexual"
The Sentinel (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) 2006-05-26

'The ACP also states, "Children raised in homosexual households are more likely to experience sexual confusion, practice homosexual behavior, and engage in sexual experimentation'
The Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL) 1978-02-21

"The trial of Cathy Kinser, who fled the prison last fall and was captured less than a day later north of Normal, brought to light the fear of heterosexual women incarcerated in the state's only prison for women."
The Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) 1973-03-07

"You can't be a lesbian, ... We roomed together and you didn't do anything to me."

"Straight women are afraid of lesbians, agreed most of the 31 seminar participants, many of whom identified themselves as gay."
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) 1999-05-05

Gays

"Despite that, one woman, who asked to remain anonymous because...said she was referred elsewhere when she called local women's shelters. No one took her in, she said, so she had to spend a weekend in her car, hiding from her"
Lesbophobia in Feminist Organizations (1996)

"Belief in the stereotypical lesbian who had nothing more to do in her life than to "infiltrate" the women's movement was common. This exemplifies the lesbophobic belief that lesbians are not real women."

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22073.pdf
AUTHENTIC WOMEN, MENACING AUTHORITIES: THE RHETORIC OF LESBIAN POLITICS OF FEMINISM’S SECOND WAVE, 1966-1975

"In another way, these menaces threatened “straight” feminists with their sexual advances and desperate search for partners."

https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/poirot_kristan_a_200408_phd.pdf
The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) 2008-03-23

"Gay activists are quick to label anyone who opposes their agenda a "homophobe." It's a label used for political gain, a clever ruse to elicit support and silence opponents."
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) 1992-08-23

"Gay-rights opponents chafe at being labeled homophobes, bigots"
The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, SC), 2004-03-05

"Not because I am a "homophobe," a label unfairly applied to anyone who does not embrace the gay agenda."
The Vancouver Sun, (Vancouver, BC) 1992-12-17

'In contrast, Colorado anti-gay groups kept their message simple: "No special rights for gays and lesbians."'
Hartford Courant, 1997-06-14
"Gay activists manipulate confused students"

"homosexual activists are manipulating confused students to label themselves as gay or lesbian"

"Vulnerable students must not be influenced to label themselves as homosexual..."
Transgender activists...er...Homosexuals are lying about suicide stats to push agenda

Calgary Herald, Canada 1997-02-28
"Note the rhetoric. Parents are opponents. Safety is a debating ploy."
The Windsor Star
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
2015-02-27

"grooming them to change their identity to become homosexuals"
Hartford Courant (Harford, Connecticut) 1999-05-10
Trial Set Over Accusation of 'Homosexual Recruiting'
"Its not bigotry, its biological reality!"

The Independent-Record (Helena, Montana) 03 Sep 1995
The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) 23 Apr 2009
Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) 30 Oct 1992
"I'm not against trans people, I'm against trans *activists*"

The Observer (London, England) 1990-10-28
The Odessa American (Odessa, Texas) 2007-02-22

"why does it have to be a given that a homosexual being in a man's locker room shouldn't make heterosexual men uncomfortable?"

"Why does tolerance demand that we forfeit our rights?"
Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY) 1975-12-07

'Why are lesbians supporting a woman's bill?'
'Why are sexual misfits supporting a woman's bill?'
'Lesbians want to adopt "to enhance their marriage"'
The Kokomo Tribune (Kokomo, IA) 1999-05-04
Homosexual Adoptions Should Be Prevented

"we believe children would be the innocent victims of the choices their parents make for personal self gratification with homosexual relationships."
The Age (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) 2000-08-03
Pandering to adult cravings

"To want to have children should be something more than the desire to get the latest Britney Spears CD."
Police Oppose...Aid to Capital Rape Crisis Center (SacBee, CA) 1974-07-10
"victims would be using this facility at a time when they have been physically and emotionally abused by a man and they would possibly be vulnerable to suggestions from women regarding lesbian activities."
Red Deer Advocate (Red Deer, Alberta, Canada), 17 Jun 2002

"From kindergarten class on, our children, your grandchildren are being strategically targeted, psychologically abused and brainwashed by homosexual and pro-homosexual educators."
The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa), 02 Dec 2007

'They will call me a "homophobe" - a politically correct slur used by those who now consider common sense to be hate'
Why homosexual ‘marriage’ signals the end of heterosexual rights, (LifeSiteNews) Oct 31, 2012
The Vancouver Sun (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), 27 Jan 1996

"To this day many people maintain that homosexual behavior exists but that homosexuals, as such, do not."
"It's a Fetish!"

Davis County Clipper, Bountiful, UT) 1996-04-23

The Central New Jersey Home News (New Brunswick, New Jersey) 2005-03-28
"Homosexuals are narcissists!"

"Homosexuals suffer from AutoAndroPhilia/AutoGynePhilia!"

History and Psyche pp 49-67
The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9781137092427_4
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