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Barb Anderson

Researcher for the Minnesota Family Council

Head of the Parents Action League and the MN Child Protection League

Updated: April 21, 2023

—Insists that “GSAs [Gay-Straight Alliances] will draw more confused and questioning youth into gay experimentation.”

—A vocal supporter of the scientifically-discredited “ex-gay” movement.

—Says Gay Straight Alliances “affirm sexual disorders.”

—Claims supportive young people are getting on a “train that is leading down a track that is going to be very harmful to them and their friends.”

—Insists LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying efforts are a product of the “pied piper of perversion”

—Anderson’s body of anti-LGBTQ work was the focus on a lengthy Rolling Stone article about the rash of LGBTQ suicides that have plagued her local community.

The GLAAD Accountability Project catalogs anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discriminatory actions of politicians, commentators, organization heads, religious leaders, and legal figures, who have used their platforms, influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.