{"id":51887,"date":"2026-03-29T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/?p=51887"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:03:15","slug":"the-lgbt-lobby-is-a-lie-why-this-old-fantasist-myth-still-fuels-real-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/en\/2026\/03\/29\/the-lgbt-lobby-is-a-lie-why-this-old-fantasist-myth-still-fuels-real-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe LGBT Lobby\u201d Is a Lie: Why This Old Fantasist Myth Still Fuels Real Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For decades, anti-LGBT+ voices have recycled the same tired story: that queer people form a secret lobby manipulating politics against \u201cthe majority.\u201d It is a conspiracy theory, not an analysis \u2014 and it has always served one purpose: to turn a persecuted minority into a convenient enemy. In France alone, anti-LGBT+ offences reached 4,800 recorded incidents in 2024, while Europe-wide surveys show harassment and violence remain alarmingly high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A political weapon, not a fact<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The phrase \u201cLGBT lobby\u201d is not neutral vocabulary. It is an ideological weapon, popularized by the far right to suggest that LGBT people are not citizens defending their rights, but an invisible power bloc pushing society off course.
That framing is deeply dishonest: it takes a community that has historically been criminalized, pathologized, and attacked, and recasts it as a dominant force supposedly controlling the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The same old conspiracy, repackaged<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This story is ancient. From the Dreyfus Affair to the Eulenburg scandal, from McCarthyism to modern far-right media, queer people have repeatedly been accused of forming shadow networks that threaten national order.
In reality, the pattern is always the same: stigmatize a minority, invent hidden influence, and use panic to justify discrimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read also : Safer on Paper, Not in Reality\u201d: ILGA Warns of Rising Anti-LGBTQIA+ Violence in Belgium<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the numbers actually show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The facts point in the opposite direction. France\u2019s Interior Ministry recorded 4,800 anti-LGBT+ offences in 2024, up 5 percent from the previous year, with crimes and misdemeanours also rising.
At the European level, the Fundamental Rights Agency says harassment and violence against LGBTIQ people remain at high levels, with more than one in two respondents reporting hate-motivated harassment.<\/a>
That is not the profile of a powerful lobby; it is the reality of a community still living under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the lie matters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calling LGBT people a \u201clobby\u201d is useful for one reason: it launders prejudice into something that sounds like civic concern. It lets politicians attack equality while pretending they are merely defending \u201ccommon sense\u201d or \u201cthe majority\u201d.
But there is nothing democratic about scapegoating. When queer people are described as a hidden threat, the result is always the same: more stigma, more hostility, and more violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real agenda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The real agenda is not LGBT control. It is anti-LGBT backlash. It is the organized effort to roll back rights, normalize hate speech, and make discrimination sound respectable.
If there is a lobby in this story, it is the anti-LGBT lobby \u2014 and it has been far more effective at shaping fear than queer people have ever been at controlling the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Useful links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n