In academic texts, homofascism is a term used to describe connections between homosexuality and fascism, a subject covered by the Frankfurt School and subsequent writers.
Political usage
Homofascism is also used, in a separate sense, to describe the silencing and persecution of those opposed the GLBT rights movement. A similar term, "sodomofascist" also exists, though a Google search seems to indicate it as having less usage (94 results) than "homofascism" (1,750 results) or "homofascist" (16,100 results).
Examples
Events which some critics have described as "homofascist" include:
* The arrest of seven Christians in Elmira, New York for praying in a public park where a homosexual festival was beginning.
* Catholic Charities of Boston's discontinuation of adoption services after the passing of a Massachusetts anti-discrimination law which would require the organization to place adopted children with homosexual couples.
* The firing of Washington Metropolitan Area Transport Agency employee Robert J. Smith by Maryland governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. after he referred to homosexual behavior as "deviant" on a talk show unrelated to his work.
Further Reading
* Hewitt, Andrew. (1996) Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, & the Modernist Imaginary Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2641-8. Google Books link [http://books.google.com/books?idQIxRz8QKqQ4C&pgPA71&dqhomofascist&ieISO-8859-1&sig=Opmz-DlsNj5Sz-KY_j1rxIKZkw4#PPA1,M1]
See Also
* Culture war
* Freedom of speech
* Gay mafia
* Homosexual agenda
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