- Collection:
- LGBTQ Collection
- Title:
- [The Report
- Creator:
- The Report
- Contributor to Resource:
- Brown, Carol
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1992
- Subject:
- Gays--United States
Conservatism--United States
Anti-gay discrimination
Right-wing extremism--Georgia
Homophobia--Georgia
Truthfulness and falsehood--United States
Rhetoric--Political aspects
Sexual reorientation programs--United States
Gays--Identity
Ex-gay movement--United States
Harassment
LGBTQ defamation campaigns
Gay rights--Religious aspects--Christianity
Hate--Political aspects
Christianity and politics--United States - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- VHS (TM)
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Video recording titled "THE GAY AGENDA." The moving image begins with an FBI copyright warning, followed by a title screen that reads: "From the Report." The next title screen reads: " THE GAY AGENDA." The video opens with footage of a riot with fires burning in the background, and is followed by several press blurbs espousing the influence of the video "THE GAY AGENDA." One reads: USA Today: "THE GAY AGENDA is a slick 20-minute documentary-style piece offering doctors, scholars, and recovered gay men talking about the ills of gay life." There is a page that reads "For Orders and Information: 1-800-462-4700, footage from several gay pride parades, coverage of a narrator defaming gay news resources and gay rights organizations, followed by the title: "The Gay Agenda In Public Education." Conservative Christian talking heads (such as Dolores Ayling, the President of "Concerned Parents for Educational Accountability" are consulted as "the voice of reason" while they defame programs that provide HIV education or support services for LGBTQ+/gay children in schools, and distort homosexual behavior as lurid and predatory. The program also promotes conversion therapy, and interviews converted gay men as "successful" examples of conversion. End credit screen: "Produced by The Report Copyright © 1992." Followed by a screen that reads "You Decide." This is succeeded by a screen that reads "Authorized and paid for by No Special Rights Committee PAC P.O. Box 407 Wilsonville, Oregon 97070." Videotapes like these were produced by the charismatic Christian church called Springs of Life, based in Lancaster, California, whose ministers were Ty and Jeannette Beeson. The church's multimedia resource center was known as "The Report." They were originally distributed in states with anti-LGBTQ+/anti-gay rights initiatives (often for free in shopping center parking lots), and later advertised through conservative Christian outlets such as Pat Robertson's television show "The 700 Club."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lgbtq/id/10214
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- W133_01_AV018, Carol Brown papers, W133, Archives for Research on Women and Gender, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Extent:
- 1 video file (mp4) (56 min., 37 sec.) sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- Carol Brown papers
Archives for Research on Women and Gender - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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