Journal looks at Web tactics of gay critics

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Anti-gay activists and organizations are using the Internet in sophisticated ways to reach a broader audience with anti-gay rhetoric, according to an article published in an online sexuality research journal.

“Anti-Gay Politics Online: A Study of Sexuality and Stigma on National Websites” by Janice M. Irvine, a sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts, is included in the current edition of Sexuality & Research: Journal of National Sexuality Resource Center, an online academic journal. The publication also includes a handful of other gay-related research.

The article chronicles Irvine’s research into the Web sites of six anti-gay organizations: Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Traditional Values Coalition, American Family Association and Americans for Truth.

“I have been doing research on the right wing for about 12 years, in particular how they look at issues such as sex education, pornography, gay issues — and how they used those issues to build their movements,” she said.

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