Turning frogs gay
What kind of nonsense is that? Donate as much as you can, and we will be here for the long haul. Donate today to keep queer voices alive. At that moment, nobody else had the courage to stand up to the Wall Street Journal.
The same neighbor who was 30 years older than me and watched me occasionally when my mom had to work late.
He was convinced that gay men are especially prone to being pedophiles and that schools are showing kids gay porn to turn them gay—an orchestrated attack to destroy the traditional family. The claim was popularized by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who cited studies on the herbicide atrazine, known to induce spontaneous sex reversal or hermaphroditism in certain frog species, to assert that the U.S.
government was "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay" as part of a "chemical warfare operation". Never mind the constant fear of getting harassed just for holding hands with my boyfriend in public.
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Like this one time I was in an Uber in Los Angeles with a friend after a long day of sightseeing. I reported him to Uber. He told us that journalists who tried to report on this were being murdered by the government. We were sitting there in stunned silence, completely grossed out by these crazy conspiracy theories.
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Chemicals in the water are turning frogs gay One of Jones' most notorious conspiracy theories is that the government is using chemicals in order to turn people gay, using a mysterious "gay bomb. Suddenly, the driver starts going on this political rant, completely out of nowhere.
Our community cannot afford to lose independent journalistic voices. Discover the real science behind Alex Jones’ gay frogs claim, Atrazine’s effects on frogs, and how to support true amphibian conservation. At that point, I wanted to get out of the car, even if it meant getting out on the highway.
When others stayed silent at Budapest Pride, we and the Guardian were the only media that covered it live. It started with him praising Russia and calling the Biden administration the end of America. When every outlet was reluctant to cover Budapest Pride live, fearing the consequences, we and The Guardian were the only media to run a live text transmission.
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[1]. There are these random, out-of-nowhere moments that just knock you off your feet. Honestly, who would choose to be gay in a society run by straight men? When we asked why, he threw out the most bizarre stuff: apparently, he said, the U. And it got even worse.