Alex Armstrong, the gay host of British far-right news station GB News, went on a queerphobic rant against Pride Month on a debate segment titled “Do we need Pride Month?”
Armstrong threw a homophobic insult at queer celebrators of Pride Month in his rant. “What I see when I see some of those Pride events is fetishes being displayed on the street, men running naked around, thinking that’s acceptable when there are children walking around,” he said, referencing a common right-wing talking point that is based in myth rather than reality.
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“It doesn’t show anything good about the gay community. It stereotypes them, and there’ll be millions of gay men, thousands of them watching tonight, who’ll go: ‘Actually, I don’t want that representing us,’” he said before saying that modern queerphobia is because of “far-left institutions” that pushed “the agenda” too far.
He then argued against gender affirming care for trans youth, and argued that gay people should be “assimilated” into society. On Instagram, he ranted about “far-left activist LGBT groups” and their “degenerate ideology.”
GB News is a notorious United Kingdom news station that has repeatedly given platforms to antisemitic conspiracy theorists, according to The Jewish Chronicle. The news station has given a platform to anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists as well.
An independent analysis by the Centre for Media Monitoring reported that this news station was also responsible for Islamophobic news coverage, with half in a two year news station attributed to it, according to The Guardian. UK-based trans broadcaster India Willoughby mentioned that the news station demonizes the trans community, according to a report by Evening Standard.
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