Far-right show hosts want LGBTQ+ people 'back in the closet'

[Eugene]

Source: The Advocate

Alternate headline: Far-right show hosts want LGBTQ+ people ‘back in the closet’

Conservative talk show hosts reminisce about bullying LGBTQ+ people back into the closet

On the CrossTalk show, three far-right influencers mocked the LGBTQ+ community and reminisced about a time when bullying members was socially acceptable.

BY CHRISTOPHER WIGGINS
JANUARY 05 2024 4:31 PM EST

The far-right talk show CrossTalk has come under fire for promoting extreme anti-LGBTQ+ views in a recent episode, as highlighted by Right Wing Watch, a watchdog site that monitors conservative extremists. On the episode, hosts Edward Szall and Lauren Witzke, along with guest Vincent James, reminisced fondly about a time when discrimination against LGBTQ+ people was more acceptable.

Szall began the discussion with a statement reflecting on past attitudes toward children of gay parents. “There used to be a day and age… we beat up the kid at school who had two dads,” he said, implying that such actions were socially accepted.

James, linked with white supremacist Nick Fuentes’s America First organization, added to the discussion, recalling when people suspected of being gay would often conceal their sexuality. “Even the kids who we knew were obviously gay, awho had the lisp, pretended not to be gay ... so that they wouldn’t get bullied,” he said.

Witzke, who is currently involved in a separate legal issue over anti-LGBTQ+ comments she made, supported these views, suggesting a return to an era where LGBTQ+ individuals would hide their identities. “That’s how we kind of maintained the line. As far as behavior, I think that they need to all go back in the closet,” Witzke commented.

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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/news/crosstalk-conservative-lgbtq-closet

[Skittles]

1. well of course that is what they want

that's why they pimp for DON'T SAY GAY and why they try to hide any book young LGBTQ might find helpful - these repuke hacks are deeply sick people who feel the need to trash the lives of others

[Valdosta]

2. The right wing is moderating their tone. Yes ...

What they really want is us dead.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. Hell, while you're at it, might as well bring back segretation.

Stupid motherfuckers.

[SouthernDem4ever]

4. We need to shove right-wing extremist fascism back in the closet

and quick!

[sop]

5. Maybe all the ignorant, racist, gun-humping hillbilly fascists should go back in the closet.

Or crawl back under their rocks.

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Lookit this asshole Szall ('we beat up kids') and you KNOW he was bullied. GDMFSOB smug prick. What are you hiding?

[CurtEastPoint]

7. And lovable, mirthful, Lauren. F her and her ilk.

[canuckledragger]

8. Well too fucking bad, cowardly asshole.

NOBODY is going back into the closet, and MAGAts can just pout over that fact.

And if I see for myself someone getting bullied because of an orientation, you better beleive I will stand in and do something about it, regardless of consequence.

Time to push MAGAts back under their rocks.

[paleotn]

9. LGBTQ+ people scare them. I wonder why.

Maybe they just like bullying people as mental compensation. Careful, Edward Szall, that's a good way to get your own ass kicked.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. i dont need no tin horn dictater wannabe , politician ,priest, nor judge to tell me who i can or cannot be!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. I go back 75 years and everybody knew

there were gay people. We just ignored it because it was really no one's business.
It wasn't ok . It was never mentioned.

It was not ok to announce it.

[kimbutgar]

13. Growing up my Dad had a childhood friend who was gay and used to come to our house all the time

My Dad used to say he was “ light in the loafers”. He was a huge half black/ Hawaiian man and years later came out and no one was surprised.

[hlthe2b]

12. They want women powerless, unable to vote, and confined in servitude to their domestic abusers

and they don't even try to hide their contempt for women who choose when (or if) to have children. So, their horrific attitudes toward LGBTQ strides and efforts to combat systemic racism should surprise exactly no one. If the need to stand together to fight against these monstrous MAGATs and other extremist RW was not clear before, it damned well should be now.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. MAGA means going back to a time when non-whites had no rights and LGTBQ persons were in the closet

MAGA assholes want to go back to a time when white heterosexuals had all of the rights and others groups deferred to these assholes

[tanyev]

15. Yep. They hate "wokeness" because they're pro-bullying.

Before they hated "woke", they hated "politically correct".

[vercetti2021]

16. Try me

No really...I fucking dare you