Chemtrails are turning the frogs gay

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".

It started with him praising Russia and calling the Biden administration the end of America. He told us that journalists who tried to report on this were being murdered by the government. Donate today to keep queer voices alive. We were sitting there in stunned silence, completely grossed out by these crazy conspiracy theories.

It drives me nuts. And guess what? The same neighbor who was 30 years older than me and watched me occasionally when my mom had to work late. The irony. Honestly, who would choose to be gay in a society run by straight men? We are a unique, reader-supported queer media—but we need your help to survive and continue defending what others choose to ignore.

[1]. Suddenly, the driver starts going on this political rant, completely out of nowhere. When we asked why, he threw out the most bizarre stuff: apparently, he said, the U. And it got even worse.

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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. When others stayed silent at Budapest Pride, we and the Guardian were the only media that covered it live.

But no, it kept going. One memory that sticks out is when I called my grandma to talk about a vacuum cleaner she wanted to give me. Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharing unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay or.

At that point, I wanted to get out of the car, even if it meant getting out on the highway. 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.

There are these random, out-of-nowhere moments that just knock you off your feet. What kind of nonsense is that? 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.

Our community cannot afford to lose independent journalistic voices. Like this one time I was in an Uber in Los Angeles with a friend after a long day of sightseeing. Never mind the constant fear of getting harassed just for holding hands with my boyfriend in public.

I reported him to Uber.