Comments supportive of LGBT people do appear on the threads, but are typically followed by anti-gay responses. But you will be banned, it says, if you post “accusations of racism” or if you call women derogatory names. Another urges gay people to stop “acting like animals” and “evolve already.” HAM allows most anyone who agrees with it to post comments. They have posted Photoshopped images like the one of a gay pride marcher whose sign has been altered to read, “My Butt Hurts.” One post compares the “fertile garden” of heterosexuality to the “toxic waste zone” of homosexuality. HAM moderators have posted comments about “the gay agenda” and baselessly linked homosexuality to pedophilia. HAM told the Huffington Post in December that “I would like to say we are not about hate in any way,” the facts seem to pretty plainly belie him. The page includes status updates, images and comment threads that range from mild to genuinely offensive. HAM”), July is “Heterosexual Awareness Month.” The page’s mission is to “educate the world, commemorate our heritage, celebrate our culture, and liberate our people.” The site goes on to say that Heterosexual Awareness Month is meant to highlight straight people’s “growing struggle of the rights and related civil rights put in jeopardy.” And they’re not being very nice about it.īack in June 2012, the Facebook page “Heterosexual Awareness Month” (HAM) was created to “celebrate heterosexuality.” According to the page’s administrators, who are anonymous (though one goes by “Dr. Proud heterosexuals - a small and nameless handful of them, anyway – are on the march.