History Main / AllGaysArePedophiles

* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Sick Girl", [[Creator/AngelaBettis Ida]]'s landlady discovers she's gay, and accuses her of eying up her ten year old daughter. Ida is understandably offended.

* Frank Herbert, author of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', was accused of invoking this trope via the character of Vladimir Harkonnen, though there was another explanation[[note]]he wasn't attracted to young boys because he was gay, he was gay because he was attracted to young boys, or more precisely, to himself at that age. He was seriously screwed up, on multiple levels.[[/note]]. The fact that that series isn't exactly long on gay characters didn't help matters.

This lies on several homophic prejudices. One is conflating any unconventional sexual activity, so homosexuality and paedophilia (and even [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]]) would be lumped together as "unnatural acts". This was reinforced by widely disseminated scandals of sexual child abuse in institutions (like the [[PedophilePriest Catholic Church]]) that was often of boys by men (despite this having more to do with sex segregation making the boys more available than girls). Finally the belief that homosexuality is unnatural and must be a learned behaviour lead to the notion (still used today to clamp down on LGBT awareness campaigns) that the "gay agenda" [[RapeAndSwitch must be preying on children]]. [[http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/Articles/000,002.htm No credible research has found such any link between homosexuality and pedophilia.]]

Unfortunately not quite a DeadHorseTrope yet, the basic idea of this one is that all homosexuals (especially gay men) have a sexual interest in children and will molest them if they get a chance. This is still used as an excuse to persecute the gay community, the primary fear being that gays are trying to "recruit" children as part of the ''"Gay agenda"'' (related to RapeAndSwitch). Many gays will readily pounce on anyone who dares suggest that this is a majority characteristic.

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* In many Slavic languages, there is no distinction in the word "pederast" between a pedophile or gay.
* Archaic Japanese contains a similar blur in the terms 若道, 美道, 衆道, and 若衆道, kanji-for-kanji translating to "the way of the youthful/beautiful/many" but meaning both "pederasty" and "homosexuality".
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* The 1961 short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VNe9NTOxA Boys Beware]]'', notable for not only blatantly describing homosexuality as a contagious disease, but also having the ''child'' be punished for ''being molested''. It should be noted that the same producer produced a film, that same year, titled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LMlHiBzj4 Girls Beware]]''. Apparently, that film inverts this trope, as it implies all straights are pedophiles.

* The 1961 short film ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VNe9NTOxA Boys Beware]]'', notable for not only blatantly describing homosexuality as a contagious disease, but also having the ''child'' be punished for ''being molested''. It should be noted that the same producer produced a film, that same year, titled ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LMlHiBzj4 Girls Beware]]''. Apparently, that film inverts this trope, as it implies [[AllGaysArePedophiles All Straights Are Pedophiles]].

* Repeatedly averted in ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', which at one point pulls a LampshadeHanging on this trope by pointing out that somewhere around 90% of pedophiles are heterosexual men.
** An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' revolves around the cold case of a boy who disappeared in the 1960s and whose body has recently turned up in his old building. The main suspects in the original investigation were a homosexual couple who lived nearby, largely because of this trope. They didn't do it, but the surviving member of the couple isn't particularly keen to cooperate with the detectives because of this trope, and bitterly lampshades it. [[spoiler:Turns out it was a heterosexual man who killed him.]]
** This trope was brought up in an [=SVU=] episode featuring a young girl who was raised by lesbians (her birth mother and the mother's partner). After some pictures were found of the family in which the girl was naked in an innocent child kind of way and taking a bath with one of the mothers ([[ValuesDissonance a practice that is not uncommon in much of the world]]) a lawyer convinced the girl's grandparents to press charges and sue for custody by showing them bogus studies that said gays were highly likely to molest their children.

* In the ''MastersOfHorror'' episode "Sick Girl", [[Creator/AngelaBettis Ida]]'s landlady discovers she's gay, and accuses her of eying up her ten year old daughter. Ida is understandably offended.

* In ''Literature/SingYouHome'' by JodiPicoult, this is discussed. Vanessa, who is a lesbian, discusses having to keep her door open when talking to students alone, because it turns out that [[spoiler:she had a get together at her house with some students. The students found alcohol, got drunk, and later accused her of molesting them]]. Later on in the book, Zoe is accused of molesting one of her clients (she is a musical therapist).

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Ralph was sick, not a visible sickness, a sickness of the mind. You see, Ralph was homosexual."'' (From the movie ''"Boys beware"'') ]]

->''You are gay, and all gays are paedophiles!''
-->--'''The [[PedoHunt Paedofinder General]]''', ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust''

* {{Discussed|Trope}} on ''NYPDBlue'' when PAA John Irvin (who was gay) was coming over to babysit Andy's son. "He's in charge, but if he wants you to do something that makes you uncomfortable you don't have to do it, and make sure you tell me about it." Nothing happened.

-->-'''The [[PedoHunt Paedofinder General]]''', ''MonkeyDust''

* Parodied in ''MonkeyDust'' when one of the Paedofinder General's victims were a couple of [[StraightGay Straight Gays]] based on "some bloke in the pub who knew for definite". He even drops the very name of the trope.

* The 1961 short film [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VNe9NTOxA ''Boys Beware'']], notable for not only blatantly describing homosexuality as a contagious disease, but also having the ''child'' be punished for ''being molested''. It should be noted that the same producer produced a film, that same year, titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LMlHiBzj4 ''Girls Beware'']] Apparently, that film inverts this trope, as it implies [[AllGaysArePedophiles All Straights Are Pedophiles]]

* In spite its strong condemnation of the "Crooked Rainbow" committing acts of street violence and [[AnarchyIsChaos anarchy]] to get their way, ''StationeryVoyagers'' oddly averts this trope ''most'' of the time. The "Crooked" are too busy [[JoinOrDie trying to kill the Voyagers as punishment for refusing to come out in favor of them]] to notice all the kids that they could be targeting. They are also obsessed with trying to find a way to [[BeyondTheImpossible rape the angels]], ''especially'' [[GaiasVengeance Filforth]], for frustrating their plans in the past in [[JerkassGods excessively showy fashion]].

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* In the ''MastersOfHorror'' episode "Sick Girl", [[AngelaBettis Ida]]'s landlady discovers she's gay, and accuses her of eying up her ten year old daughter. Ida is understandably offended.

* Repeatedly averted in ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', which at one point pulls a LampshadeHanging on this trope by pointing out that somewhere around 90% of pedophiles are heterosexual men.

* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] on ''NYPDBlue'' when PAA John Irvin (who was gay) was coming over to babysit Andy's son. "He's in charge, but if he wants you to do something that makes you uncomfortable you don't have to do it, and make sure you tell me about it." Nothing happened.

* In ''SingYouHome'' by JodiPicoult, this is discussed. Vanessa, who is a lesbian, discusses having to keep her door open when talking to students alone, because it turns out that [[spoiler:she had a get together at her house with some students. The students found alcohol, got drunk, and later accused her of molesting them]]. Later on in the book, Zoe is accused of molesting one of her clients (she is a musical therapist).

* ''{{Milk}}'' points out the historical fact that even into the late 1970s homosexual school teachers could be fired for "being a danger to children" using this trope as a pretext.

* The 1961 short film [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5VNe9NTOxA ''Boys Beware'']], notable for not only blatantly describing homosexuality as a contagious disease, but also having the ''child'' be punished for ''being molested''.
** It should be noted that the same producer produced a film, that same year, titled [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6LMlHiBzj4 ''Girls Beware'']] Apparently, that film inverts this trope, as it implies [[AllGaysArePedophiles All Straights Are Pedophiles]]

** And repeated failure to achieve these ends gives them direction, as in "[[{{Film/Batman}} We now have a name for our pain, and that name is...the Voyagers]]!"

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has mocked this attitude twice.
** In the episode "Cripple Fight", Big Gay Al is fired from the [[ScoutOut Mountain Scouts]] because of his sexuality and replaced with an supposedly heterosexual man, who really ''does'' molest the boys.
** In "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy", Kyle's baby brother, Ike, has an affair with his kindergarten teacher. Kyle finds out and goes to the police, who immediately assume that the teacher is a man. [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Once they find out that she's actually an attractive young woman, they stop taking the situation seriously.]]