History of Anti-LGBTQ Humor

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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

  1. David Corn, "A joke too bad to print?" Salon, June 25. 1998. http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html