Legal Org Pegs ‘Gays Against Groomers’ As ‘Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Group’

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday designated an openly gay organization that opposes gender ideology as an “anti-LGBT+ hate group.”

The SPLC publishes an annual list of “hate” organizations and dubbed Gays Against Groomers an “anti-LGBTQ+ hate group” in its most recent iteration, arguing that it has been “amplifying anti-trans and anti-drag messaging. Gays Against Groomer is a 501(c)(4) advocacy group that describes itself as a coalition of “gays, lesbians and others” working to “oppose the sexualization, indoctrination and mutilation of children under the guise of radical ‘LGBTQIA+’ activism,” according to its website.

The group “has shut down ‘family-friendly’ drag shows aimed at children, lobbied for bills preventing child abuse and mutilation, given speeches at school board meetings, organized rallies and protests, spoken out from within the community, and endorsed candidates who unequivocally condemn the current state of the gender movement,” its website reads.

The California chapter worked with other activist groups to shut down a “Drag Queen Storytime” in October 2023, the Los Angeles Blade reported.

“What we are witnessing is mass-scale child abuse being perpetuated on an entire generation, and we will no longer sit by and watch it happen,” Gays Against Groomers says on its website. “Gender ideology isn’t just a neo-religious cult; it is biotechnological warfare in drag. Its propaganda machine is relentless, like a multi-headed hydra with claws in every corporate sector.”