Rhetorical Analysis: The Myth Of The Gay Agenda

“Run for your heterosexual lives!” Homosexuality, a topic that gains misperception, and alienates people in a world of easily made stereotypes. In the TED talk entitled “The Myth of The Gay Agenda” presented by LZ Granderson. , the speaker’s presentation is mostly expressed most successfully with pathos while also using ethos and logos concerning the topic of proving to dispel the myth that there is a gay agenda. The title alone “The Myth of the Gay Agenda” invites the audience to think, to feel, to question; quite possibly some may even take a position before the lecture begins. Some may even argue that the driving force in this lecture are the points made through logos, however, even though these points carry much weight, it is the the pathos that grabs the listener and then keeps them engaged throughout the talk, that wins over the audience. Logos would most certainly fall on deaf ears if not for the

The most powerful of which is a copy of the The Constitution of the United States. It is dropped like a bomb of enlightenment at precisely the right moment during the talk. “This,” he Argues “is the Gay Agenda” (Granderson). While the slide is clearly logos, it is the emotional realization that he clearly wants to be felt and completely absorbed to the core of everyone's humanity. This is where logos becomes pathos. It is the revelation moment in the presentation and it is again intentional on the part of the speaker. “This document,” Granderson explains, “is how everyone should be able to have the fundamental human rights that are written in our laws.” He goes on to show evidence from the past of political activism when women and black people did not have the same rights as white male citizens. Granderson also uses maps showing Housing laws and policy by state, as well as a map on Nondiscrimination law across the United States. (List work cited on