By Brandon Smith
Growing up in America through the 1980s and 1990s there was a general sense of “live and let live” among Gen X and Gen Y that truly defined the era and our notions of what a society should look like. We all knew gay people were a permanent fixture in society. For the most part nobody bothered them and they kept their gayness to themselves (and far away from children). Frankly, it was working just fine.
There were some protests and marches, but the only “individual right” straight people had that they didn’t was the right to legal marriage. Most people figured that once that changed there wouldn’t be anything left to protest. What we didn’t understand at the time was that the seemingly harmless rise of “Gay Pride” in the 90s and early 2000s would become a primer for the woke madness that spread like wildfire from 2014 onward.
As we now know, a lot of that insanity was rooted in programs funded through the US government. It’s important to keep in mind, however, that the government is a tool, not the hand holding the tool. Elitist interests through NGO’s and think tanks like the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation were the real impetus for the creation of the woke movement. They spent decades building the revolving door dynamic that cycled taxpayer cash through agencies like USAID and into the pockets of NGOs.
In other words, it’s a mistake to think of the federal government as the mastermind. Rather, the government and the politicians within it are paid (or blackmailed) by wealthy globalists to support legislation that funds and empowers globalist projects.
The international spread of “queer activism” or “pride activism” has been a goal of the elites since the days of the Kinsey Institute, which was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and became the source for the invasion of LGBT ideology into modern academia starting in 1947. The Rockefeller Foundation still brags to this day about funding the rise of the “sexual revolution” and the notion of “non-binary sexuality”.
The transgender movement is largely tied to the intellectually dishonest and disturbed studies of John Money conducted in the 1950-1960s. His experiments were bankrolled through the Johns Hopkins School, which was founded and largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Once these ideologies, posing as social science, infected the halls of higher academia, students were turned into adherents of the cult. They then spread like a plague into politics and federal bureaucracy. They would go on to grow the unaccountable bureaucratic system that now cycles taxpayer cash from federal agencies into the coffers of NGOs. The great scam was set in motion – Using American money to fund the demise of western civilization.
A large part of this agenda relies on the mafia-like enforcement of LGBT normalization in every facet of society, even in public schools where teachers now hang pride flags and expose children to gender fluid theories with no basis in scientific fact.
On the international front, a little known agency called “USAID” was launched in 1961 for the purposes of providing material support to foreign populations in dire need (and to combat the threat of communism). However, from the 1990s onward the organization was increasingly involved in leftist propaganda with a specific interest in DEI. The apparatus that was built to stop communism was retooled to promote communism.
Fast forward to the 2020s and what we have today is a hostile takeover, a government and NGO funded color revolution that desires to annihilate western values, Christian morals and the general American regard for freedom of speech and freedom of thought. The woke movement is not just Cultural Marxism (that’s part of it), it’s a massively well-funded ideological machine. A new religion, of sorts, that seeks to wipe out the fundamental principles that hold our society together.
For the western world the pendulum swings from left to right, but noticeably more and more to the left and less and less to the right over time. Some call this the “Overton Window”. In other words, conservative or traditionalist ideas and values that were acceptable 20 years ago are slowly and incrementally suffocated by artificial social and legal pressures until they’re no longer present in the next generation.
The woke ideas and values the establishment WANTS the public to adopt are promoted widely, but this requires extensive monetary backing. Social engineering campaigns are expensive and take many years to achieve results.
With the revelations surrounding USAID (and at least a dozen other institutions), it appears that the agency was a key driver behind the rapid spread of DEI into every corner of our nation, not to mention many other nations. Their LGBT operations are particularly interesting and I would assert that it was USAID that specifically injected woke cultism into the public school system.
They were the organization that encouraged school officials and teachers to indoctrinate children with woke ethics and transgender politics, and they also actively encouraged teachers to hide these activities from parents.
One document that outlines the basic agenda is USAID’s ‘Integrating LGBTQI+ Considerations Into Education Programming’. The PDF was drafted and provided to field employees and workers in their Inclusive Development Hub and Center for Education. It explains how to inject DEI and LGBT propaganda into various public education institutions, using teachers and school officials as “advocates”.
Researching back through some of USAID’s activities from 2014 onward there was a clear spike in funding surrounding LGBT programs for teachers and administrators. Because of the recent shutdown and audits you have to use the Wayback Machine website to view a lot of this stuff, but it’s still there.
The document states:
“The purpose of this document is to support USAID’s staff working in the education sector to integrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+1) considerations into programming and across the Program Cycle…”
USAID’s mission statement uses the same justification as most DEI promoters: They claim that educational environments around the world are “not safe” for LGBT students and teachers. Their solution? To use overwhelming funding power to incentivize (bribe) governments and educational institutions to inject gay propaganda into the curriculum.
That is to say, they sought to evangelize education organizations with the woke belief system in the name of “saving lives”. USAID head Samantha Power directly links the wokification of culture to the “fight for democracy”, creating a progressive crusade. Meaning, the elites frame LGBT indoctrination as an existential imperative to save the planet (skip to 24:40 in video).
It reminds me a bit of the movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”; aliens slowly and strategically taking over the world by hijacking each person and absorbing them into the collective. You might think it’s paranoid exaggeration to claim that USAID wanted to turn everyone gay, but you would be wrong. Consider for a moment the prevailing argument in favor of gays in the 1990s:
“They were born that way and they can’t change it, just like a person can’t change their ethnicity. So leave them alone…”
What’s the prevailing argument now? (The same argument presented within USAID’s own documentation.)
“Gender and sexuality are completely fluid and any person, including children ages 3-5, can change their preferences at any moment for any reason. Straight people only exist because they are forced to be that way through social constructs…”
In other words, the gay movement now agrees with its old Christian adversaries – Gayness is a personal lifestyle choice, not a permanent condition you are born with. When the movement for gay rights morphed into the “Pride Movement”, the goal was no longer equal rights but the erasure of biological and objective reality.
As USAID notes:
“The development and realization of one’s sexual orientation and gender identity is a process, rather than a singular event. This implies that self-identification of sexual orientation and gender identity may change over time and may not be congruent, and young people may need varying levels of support, space, and attention during this process…”
USAID has maintained a laser focus on schools, education and children. They admit that they targeted 120 school principles in Kosovo for “LBGT inclusion training”. They “sensitized” educators in Honduras on LGBT inclusion. They developed university programs in Jamaica on LGBT discrimination, etc.
In the UK, a group called Stonewall is warning it might have to shut down after losing funding funneled through USAID. Stonewall is notorious for targeting children with trans propaganda in schools and funding pride propaganda across the UK and in other countries.
Not only did USAID (along with other agencies and NGOs) invade schools with LGBT cultism, polling indicates they’ve been rather successful. Various public surveys show that Gen Z, the most targeted generation, identifies as LGBT at a rate of 7% to 28% depending on which poll you look at. A generational increase from 2% to 28% is scientifically impossible. It can only be accomplished through social engineering.
It’s not that these kids are actually gay. It’s not that it’s now more acceptable to be open about it (polls were always anonymous anyway). It’s not even that being gay is considered trendy for Gen Z. Rather, they have been brainwashed to believe that being straight is a form of social oppression.
They have been taught through USAID and NGO funded programming to accept gender relativism as socially conscious and morally superior. They will never be gender fluid or feel attraction to the same sex, but they want to be on the right side of history. So, they identify as LGBT to feel like they are good people. Identifying gay is not about sexual preference, it’s a virtue signal.
One can theorize about the deeper motives behind USAID’s efforts – There’s the theory that the pride movement is designed to reduce population growth for the sake of reaching “net zero” carbon goals (gays usually don’t have children and trans kids are often sterilized by hormone therapy).
Then there’s the theory that pride is a precursor to the normalization of child grooming and the legalization of pedophiles as a “marginalized group” (the globalist Epstein Island crowd would love that). It’s a big reason why a lot of gay people oppose the trans agenda – They don’t want to be associated with the obvious groomer undertones of transgender activism.
And let’s not forget about the connection between LGBT indoctrination and progressive political organizations looking to create a permanent voting block. Leftist political parties use social pressure to trap “marginalized groups” in voter plantations. You’re not allowed to be gay and vote against the Democrats, for example. If you do, you’re considered a traitor and a heretic.
I think the evidence supports all of these to some degree. My personal theory is that “Pride” and the woke movement in general are the precursors to a new secularist religion of self worship and the worship of government. A globalist theology in which the greatest virtue is to deny objective reality and embrace relativism in everything from biological sex to moral compass.
Was there EVER a real “Pride Movement”? Was it all just establishment financed astroturf from the very beginning? It sure looks that way.
As DOGE cuts continue to run their course and many of these agencies and NGOs are eventually defunded, I predict we will see a rapid decline in younger people identifying as LGBT. I also predict that most of the pride parade activity seen every June will fade and that trans activism will mostly vanish outside of a handful of crazies. The Pride movement was never grassroots. It was a fabrication; an illusion conjured into existence through the sheer power of government cash and NGO manipulation.
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Agreed. Gay people have existed since the beginning of time- as long as they didnt bother anyone – quite frankly why would anyone care what you do in your own bedroom? The trannies are a form of mental illness who usually were sent to mental asylums (which we need to bring back) but for the past 5 years have been glorified by the globalists into something normal.
I personally know a few gay conservatives and follow “gays against groomers.” The current Treasury Secretary is gay. There’s that gay guy Scott Pressler who did a great job getting conservatives elected the past few years. They all despise the trannies and all this woke nonsense and the constant parading of this lgbt bullshit. Same thing with the DEI crap. We need to end this asap.
Homosexuals are not gay. They are immoral perverts.
Well done, Brandon; great research and analysis! Thank you.
Chris Martenson on his Peakprosperity.com website gives the best example why this stuff happens. He refers to it as the two rats in the cage experiment. The experiment starts with one rat being electrically shocked, then the other rat is zapped. It goes back and forth until the rats start attacking each other, thinking the other rat is responsible for doing the zapping.
https://peakprosperity.com/rats-in-a-cage/
The Federal Government i.e. the Leftists/Progressives/Wokesters have used this tactic for decades by pitting us against each other then going behind the scenes and passing laws that makes the government bigger and stronger by taking our rights away. That’s pretty much how they got all the gay pride, transvestite reading book hour with children and transgender stuff to seep into the American way of life.
I’m not sure if the analogy works. The problem is that leftists have long been on the side of the globalists. The globalists have always been leftists in their ideology. In other words, one rat IS doing the zapping, along with the scientist running the experiment. One rat IS the enemy, just as the scientist is the enemy.
And out of fear of reprisal from the rat with the zapper and the scientist, other rats become the gaystapo turning in their fellow rats who don’t want to get zapped over to the scientist.
Agree. The gay community tied a millstone around their necks when they accepted trannies into their midst. In my opinion, the communists/Democrats jettisoned the working class as their vehicle when it proved not revolutionary enough, and is searching for some new vehicle to ride to power. Are the trannies destined to be the new janissaries of their movement? Will the new “smart cities” force the overcrowding described in the Calhoun rat study?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-7-IW9Umg
In John B. Calhoun’s early crowding experiments, rats were supplied with everything they needed – except space. The result was a population boom, followed by such severe psychological disruption that the animals died off to extinction.
“Growing up in America through the 1980s and 1990s there was a general sense of ‘live and let live’…”.
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There are several groups of people in our World these days who do not believe in letting others live as they choose. Two prime examples:
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Wokesters. Wokesters tell us that there is only one way to think and live and it is THEIR WAY or you are worthless.
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Dogmatic Religions. These religions teach and believe that there is only one way to believe and if you don’t you follow that you are going to hell.
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Notice something about these two views? At heart, their essence is almost identical. They do not allow for or tolerate human beings to have the right and agency to live as they choose and so these Mind Jailers condemn such thinking in their orgy of sickly mental and spiritual egotism and self-indulgence.
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‘Live and Let Live’ (without harm to others) is the sign of an evolved and intelligent mind and spirit. Anything less than this is evidence of juvenality and Monkey-mind.
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“Elitist interests through NGO’s and think tanks like the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation were the real impetus for the creation of the woke movement.”
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Depraved organizations are like harmful viruses attacking the Body of the Human Family. They do not seek to better humanity but to sicken and destroy it.
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“The international spread of ‘queer activism’ or ‘pride activism’ has been a goal of the elites…”.
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This is the mind-warp of trying to turn Deviancy into Normality… or said another way… the codification of sin over virtue and the normal.
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For those who wish to live a lifestyle of deviancy they should have every right to do so in the privacy of their own lives and bedrooms. But no one gave them the right to take this out into streets and the World and try to force deviancy on everyone else.
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Corruption of young people has long been known by Dark Siders as the way to transform the World into their depraved version of it. Much damage has been done not only to young people today but to all the generations that have come along since the Greatest Generation lived in America. Most everyone suffers from some degree of mind-warping from overt and subconscious manipulation by Dark State Media and the entertainment industry. All of this being done deliberately and with great malice and harm intended.
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“… precursors to a new secularist religion of self worship and the worship of government.”
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Since humankind began to gather in regional groups and create forms of governance… those forms always devolve into being faux gods and false religions (like Monarchies and Tyrants). When one denies and erases the true God from society’s consciousness… something is going to come along to fill that void. And in today’s World, that false god is Government. Another false god is ‘The Science’. Another false god is one’s erroneous belief in man’s own limited reason and mental prison as being a god unto itself. All of these and more are false religions to replace The True. That’s why there is a Commandment against having false gods.
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To deny the True God is to deny truth and reality itself. Which is just what the Woke Movement and atheism and worship of Government all are working towards. And to accept this rejection of God is to truly enter hell. It may not be a place of burning hellfire… but the consequences will be just as horrific for those who choose to dwell there.
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There is a reason why Devancy is always — deviant. Because the human condition itself is trying to tell us something that we should pay attention to for our own good.
I’ve long suspected that the whole “gay rights” thing was a sham even before I followed you. I mean, what rights could they possibly need when they already have the exact same legal rights and protections as everyone else? Not to mention if this were truly an organic movement it wouldn’t need to constantly shove it down our throats, especially with the establishment doing it on their behalf.
Really nice article. I concur. I’m in my mid-70s. I was surprised when militancy arose as a tactic in the LGBT movement since I, too, had felt the “live and let live” axiom working. I never noticed gays or lesbians necessarily “threatened.” In fact, they seemed well accepted into society.
I offer a curious addition as to why the Globalist might want to obscure sexuality and sexual roles. One goal appears to be androgyny where individuals exist who take no pleasure or enjoyment from sexual activity. I particularly remark on the fact that, after some reading on the subject, I discovered that trans sexuality, from my POV, appears limited.
For example, a man who becomes a woman by removing the male organ and using the organ to create a vagina never has a clitoris. The locus of sexual arousal comes from a gland in male bodies which provides arousal for the male. My conclusion from reading an extremely frank account written by a doctor who does such operations was that a sexual experience can be achieved, but as a woman, I concluded their experience to be nothing like what most women achieve.
There seems to be a goal of not only confusing sexuality and sexual identity but of stripping the quality of spirituality which can accompany a sexual experience. The experience becomes simply an entanglement of organs and people desperately seeking some connection. Perhaps their goal is to make people feel lost and rudderless. People who have no direction are easily led and manipulated into whatever a controller may like.
I’m reminded of the overall goal of MKUltra–the creation of “alters” which become compartmentalized and unknown to each other on most occasions. Alters arise according to what the environment dictates or elicits so stronger ones may know of weaker “alter” states. Confusing sexuality could be accomplishing the same goal within the physical body.
Very informative article. Thank you.
For those readers who would like to investigate further, I highly recommend Corey Lynn at Corey’s Digs web site, and Jennifer Bilek, who is on Substack. Also Dr. Miriam Grossman.
Dr. Judith Reisman (may she RIP) did the lion’s share of work in exposing Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute.
Just passing along FYI.
It was as obvious as the day is long that this would happen with the passage of gay marriage. If it is the same a hetero, than it will be addressed in schools, etc. This was not hard to figure out, or see coming. Coming soon, your son is a homophobe for not wanting experience anal sex.
Hollywood has played a huge rule in shifting attitudes. I was aware of the influence tv shows like Glee, Will & Grace etc but not too long ago i was shocked to learn that the 1993 film Philadelphia made the list aswell, in being just as influential in promoting the gay agenda. This article is from 2015
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-st-0628-media-gay-marriage-20150628-story.html
Recently, Lance Wallnau (some evangelical guy who hangs around Trump) said: “the country has already drifted on the homosexual issue but on transgenderism there’s a problem”.
An extremely important article, Brandon. Thanks for writing on it.
This is one of your most important sentences that you have ever written: “It’s important to keep in mind, however, that the government is a tool, not the hand holding the tool.”
If people BELIEVED that, the world would be vastly different.
And the good news in all of this is that the human brain, mind, and spirit is extremely strong. We can reject the evil of the cultists and live our lives well. We can, and we are!