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Section sizes

Section size for Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric (33 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	3,521	3,521
As a foreign conspiracy	3,517	3,517
As an ideology	10,649	17,246
Criticism	6,597	6,597
Dehumanization	1,064	1,064
Slurs	1,127	1,127
Calls for violence	3,614	3,614
Anti-gay themes	834	66,835
Homosexuality as a cause of disasters	4,677	4,677
AIDS as punishment	4,000	4,000
Homosexuality as unnatural	1,520	1,520
Homosexuality as a disease	4,947	4,947
Homosexuality as a choice or lifestyle	4,008	4,008
Homosexuality as sinful or ungodly	12,420	12,420
Homosexuality as a Western ill	5,857	5,857
Conflation with pedophilia	5,451	5,451
"Gay agenda"	90	90
Recruitment	12,074	12,074
Homosexual conspiracies	56	10,957
"Homintern"	3,218	3,218
"Gaystapo"	994	994
"Gay mafia"	3,005	3,005
"Lavender mafia"	914	914
"Gay lobby"	2,770	2,770
Anti-transgender rhetoric	175	6,928
Misgendering	2,454	2,454
Deception and masquerade	1,122	1,122
Bathroom bills	107	107
In feminism	3,070	3,070
Legality and censorship	1,416	1,416
See also	528	528
References	28	28
Further reading	4,787	4,787
Total	110,611	110,611

The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Blumenthal, Paul (25 March 2023). "The GOP's 2020s Culture War Is A Throwback To The 1970s". HuffPost.
Smith, Nathan (10 May 2016). "The Rise of the Gay Mafia, a Powerful Cabal That Never Existed". Atlas Obscura.
Wald, Alan M. (2012). "The 'Homintern' Reconsidered". American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 117–149. doi:10.5149/9780807837344_wald.8. ISBN 978-0-8078-3586-9.
Woods, Gregory (2003). "The 'Conspiracy' of the 'Homintern'". The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. 10 (3): 11–13. ISSN 1532-1118.