"Eighties tabloid headlines about gay people would take our breath away nowadays,"
"But looking at today's news, there's a peculiar sense of déjà vu."
"The 80s and 90s were terrible for anti-gay rhetoric but reading today's newspapers... the rhetoric is still there but the target has changed. Instead of gays recruiting our kids and stealing our taxes, it's transgender people. The same phobia, recycled."
"Bigotry is cyclical. And at times like this, when transgender people are facing attacks from every angle, it's so important for the community to stand together, to let the T know that the LBG firmly stands with them."
A free browser-based quiz game modeled on a light-hearted TV panel format challenges players to identify whether inflammatory UK tabloid headlines come from the 1980s/90s or from today. The game, Have I Got Phobia For You, presents five rounds using real headlines that highlight homophobia in past decades and transphobia in recent headlines. Examples include a 2018 Telegraph headline denouncing a "transgender minority" and a 1998 Sun headline asking about a "gay mafia." Developers describe the project as a playful way to spotlight persistent harmful mainstream-media rhetoric and link players to Stop Hate UK statistics.
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