The 100-Year-Old Myth of Gays “Coming for Your Children”

A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein

Matt Bernstein

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

I get called a “groomer” on Twitter every day — which is weird, because I want nothing to do with your kids. What is it with queers and kids that gets conservatives so livid? Today, we explore The Gay Agenda’s exhausting past — beginning with the present. First, UK drag queen Crystal tells us how she successfully sued a right-wing activist who defamed her as a “paed*phile.” Then, Chelsey Weber-Smith (of American Hysteria) takes us through the last century of American history, where myths about the Scary Queer Predator pop up again and again, and again. Support me on Patreon! Listen to Chelsey’s podcast, American Hysteria. Find more of Crystal. Huge thanks to Blueland for sponsoring this episode! Get 15% off a cuter, more sustainable way to clean at www.blueland.com/fruity Find more of A Bit Fruity. Find more of Matt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have had a lot of diva down moments this year as gay people, from George Santos to the Senate
0:08.7	Twinks to the return of the 1980s satanic panic but this time it's levied against
0:15.0	drag queens and transgender 13 year olds. But we are starting this year with a real
0:21.6	diva up moment because last week Crystal a drag queen from the first
0:27.5	season of RuPaul's Drag Grace UK successfully sued a guy who basically called her a pedophile on Twitter.
0:35.0	She sued him for defamation and she won.
0:38.0	The queers are getting litigious.
0:41.0	We will not take it anymore. Crystal, welcome to a bit fruity, Diva.
0:47.0	Thank you so much. What an intro. Also, it's been a while since I heard the American pronunciation of pedophiles, so that's refreshing.
0:54.8	Oh yeah, we might have to, one of us is going to have to meet the other on that one.
1:00.0	I can say pedophile if you want me to.
1:02.0	No, you know what, potato, patata.
1:04.4	Take me back to the beginning.
1:10.0	How did this all start?
1:12.0	And who is Lawrence Fox?
1:14.0	Oh God, how long you got?
1:16.0	uh, Lawrence Fox is a former actor turned
1:19.8	alt-right troll basically. He runs a political party here in the UK which has no members
1:26.4	No elected politicians and really no real purpose except to kind of shift the political dial to the right.
1:34.1	Using all of the tactics we all know and love like denying racism exists and
1:39.0	demonizing queer people and a lot of anti-immigrant rhetoric.
1:44.4	So he's an asky piece of work.
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