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Documenting and analyzing the history of anti-LGBTQ jokes provides revealing insight into the preoccupations and prejudices circulating in mainstream culture. | Documenting and analyzing the history of anti-LGBTQ jokes provides revealing insight into the preoccupations and prejudices circulating in mainstream culture. | ||
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| − | + | Senator John McCain (Republican-Arizona), at a Republican Senate fund-raiser, November 1998: | |
| − | + | :"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? | |
| − | + | :Because her father is Janet Reno."<ref>David Corn, "A joke too bad to print?" ''Salon'', June 25. 1998. http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html</ref> | |
| − | "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? | ||
| − | Because her father is Janet Reno."<ref>David Corn, "A joke too bad to print?" Salon, June 25. 1998.http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 14:58, 15 June 2008
Documenting the History of Anti-LGBTQ Jokes
Documenting and analyzing the history of anti-LGBTQ jokes provides revealing insight into the preoccupations and prejudices circulating in mainstream culture.
This is a stub article in the process of development. Please add more well-documented "humor" in chronological order.
Senator John McCain (Republican-Arizona), at a Republican Senate fund-raiser, November 1998:
- "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
- Because her father is Janet Reno."[1]
References
- ↑ David Corn, "A joke too bad to print?" Salon, June 25. 1998. http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html
