What is the class character of the anti-gay movement?

[Questionable]

I'm having trouble putting a class analysis to the gay rights struggle. Who is benefits from gay discrimination? How does it help the ruling class, and if it's in their interests, then why are so many lower-income citizens opposed to gay rights?

[TheGodlessUtopian]

It assists the ruling class in that it keeps the working class divided and fighting amonst each other.Many low-income people are against it because of religion and centuries of anti-gay myths,propaganda,and general disdain for anything other than heterosexuality.

[eyeheartlenin]

It would also be interesting, and helpful, to do a class analysis of existing gay activist groups, so as to see what interests they represent and what they respond to, politically. (Speaking concretely, to see how, for instance, gay organizations respond to Obama's election-year emergence as a late-blooming partisan of marriage equality, i.e., whether the response of gay groups is a blanket endorsement of the Obama campaign, or something else.)

In accounts of the US SWP, during the period of its transformation, beginning in the 1960's, one finds the claim that, with the SWP's intense involvement with pacifism, black nationalism, and feminism, in that decade and later, the composition/class character of the party changed.

One question that could be raised in a class approach to the current gay movement is whether that movement has proletarian class content. I think the results would be fascinating, especially in the light of Obama's recent approach to gay voters.

[Zulu]

Anti-anything movements attract all kinds of reactionaries (because they are nothing but a re-action to something) and as such are cross-class. Even the anti-gay ideologists understand this simple truth now, trying to brand themselves as "pro-marriage" and such (compare to "pro-life").

[El Oso Rojo]

It a cross class thing in different forms, there homophobia based on religious fundementalism, heterosexualism, and somewhere concept that gays are women haters a la RCP.

[Rafiq]

It stands in defense of the Bourgeois family structure. The anti gay rhetoric is simply Bourgeois degeneration/decedency. Though I wouldn't call it a movement.