Do homosexuals and bisexuals molest children?
One fear that many people express is that homosexuals molest young children. The singer Anita Bryant, in her Florida campaign in the late 1970s to prevent gay, lesbian, and bisexual people from teaching in the schools, exploited this fear to win voters over to her side. We so read reports of “homosexual child molesting.” We never read reports labeling `homosexual child molesting’ as such, although studies consistently show that most child sexual abuse is by older heterosexual relatives and most often involves men who abuse young girls. One study, for example, reported that 88 % of the victims were women, while the vast majority of the abusers are male. Other evidence supports the conclusion that 92 percent of all child abuse cases are heterosexual. Further, another study notes that a review of available evidence ‘provides no basis for associating child molestation with homosexual behavior.” According to the Gay Teacher’s Caucus of New York, while there are many complaints on file about
