By Alvin McEwen

Alvin McEwen

Alvin McEwen resides in Columbia, S.C. and is the author of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Exposing the Lies of the Anti-Gay Industry. He is also a board member of the SC Pride Movement and a member of SC Black Pride.

In June 2009, McEwen became the first gay man of color to address LGBT issues on the editorial pages of The State, South Carolina's largest newspaper. He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award, the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement, and the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride.

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NOM makes tasteless reference to gay Congressman’s newborn son

Monday, October 3, 2011
There are times that the National Organization for Marriage is so anti-gay that it burns — such as the post on its blog regarding the birth of Congressman Jared Polis’s newborn son: [ Read more → ]
Matt Barber

Anti-gay bigot Matt Barber mad at feds for acknowledging same-sex couples

Friday, September 30, 2011
Matt Barber of the right-wing Liberty Counsel is angry at President Obama and the Census Bureau for recognizing same-sex couples. [ Read more → ]
Jerry Buell

NOM’s newest ‘victim’ of alleged ‘gay intolerance’ is another dud for the organization

Thursday, September 29, 2011
The National Organization for Marriage has posted a video of another supposed “victim” of the “intolerant gay agenda” in accordance to the new group it has helped to found – the Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance. [ Read more → ]
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Hate group FRC angry at Republican for co-sponsoring DOMA repeal bill

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The anti-gay hate group, the Family Research Council is furious that a Republican in Congress is co-sponsoring a bill which would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). [ Read more → ]
Dakota Ary

Student’s story of suspension for speaking against homosexuality may not be true

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Last week, a controversy erupted over a student, Dakota Ary, at a Fort Worth High School who claimed that he was punished for merely stating in class that homosexuality is a sin. But when everything is at its peak, the other side of the story comes out... [ Read more → ]
Scott Lively

Bigot Scott Lively warns: Gays are winning ‘culture war’ and taking prisoners

Monday, September 26, 2011
According to Scott Lively, head of the SPLC-declared hate group Abiding Truth Ministries, “Many Christians are only now awakening to the seriousness of the threat to our society posed by the homosexual movement. But, unfortunately for us all, it is only the sounding of the victory trumpets by gay activists that has stirred Christians from their slumber." [ Read more → ]
Rick Santorum

Don’t believe Santorum’s claim about not hearing the audience boo the gay soldier

Monday, September 26, 2011
There continues to be so much fall out from the recent Republican presidential debate in which the candidates stood by and said nothing while members of the audience booed a gay solder.... [ Read more → ]
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NOM’s new project for ‘victims’ of imaginary gay intolerance spotlights liar Frank Turek

Sunday, September 25, 2011
The National Organization for Marriage has began a new project which it calls Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance. This project will spotlight folks who are the supposed victims of imaginary gay intolerance: [ Read more → ]
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Time for LGBT people to get their heads in the game, be their own heroes

Saturday, September 24, 2011
This piece is not a sell for Barack Obama, but a plea for the gay community to recognize who our true enemies are. It's time we stop expecting a hero and be our own heroes. It's time we start talking into account the cold fact that our struggle for equality is like a game of chess. [ Read more → ]
Maggie Gallagher

Good riddance to Maggie Gallagher

Friday, September 23, 2011
As you have likely heard, Maggie Gallagher has stepped down as chairwoman of the National Organization for Marriage. Let's face facts -- Gallagher was probably more likely a figurehead, a puppet picked by shadowy individuals out to stomp out the progress of marriage equality. And if that was the case, she wasn't a good one. [ Read more → ]
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Hate group Family Research Council promises to ‘monitor’ DADT repeal

Thursday, September 22, 2011
Several folks on the right aren’t happy with this week’s repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The SPLC-designated hate group, the Family Research Council, has weighed in with a nonsensical scathing attack on President Obama and an ugly promise to “monitor” the effects of DADT. [ Read more → ]
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It’s time for the ‘we need to protect marriage’ con to die

Tuesday, September 13, 2011
It's time for this "we need to protect marriage" con to die. And it will. It could happen in North Carolina or Minnesota. Both states are facing anti-marriage equality votes next year. Or it could happen before then. But rest assured, it will happen. [ Read more → ]
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It’s not enough to call them bigots…

Sunday, September 11, 2011
We know that religious right groups peddle distortions designed to demonize the LGBT community. However we really should do more than simply declare them bigots. Members of the right tend to embrace that definition... [ Read more → ]
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National Organization for Marriage is now attacking same-sex families

Friday, September 9, 2011
According to Equality Matters, the Ruth Institute — a group affiliated with the National Organization for Marriage, is pushing nonsense which attacks same-sex families... [ Read more → ]
NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher

NOM’s 2009 victory in Maine comes back to haunt the anti-gay organization

Thursday, September 8, 2011
The National Organization for Marriage loses another round in court against Maine's disclosure laws. Meanwhile, a soon-to-be released documentary threatens to expose the questionable tactics of those the organization employed to defeat Maine's marriage equality law. [ Read more → ]
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National Organization for Marriage loses badly at Minnesota State Fair

Thursday, September 8, 2011
If a poll at the Minnesota State Fair is a preview of things to come, then the National Organization for Marriage has a lot of work to do in its effort to completely ban marriage equality in the state. [ Read more → ]
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NC homophobes pulling religious, racial, and anatomy cards against marriage equality

Thursday, September 8, 2011
The battle for or against marriage equality (whichever you prefer) in North Carolina is heating up as the following video shows. Folks who are pushing the anti-marriage equality amendment are pulling out all of the stops, i.e. the religious argument, the racial argument, and even the anatomy argument... [ Read more → ]
Game

Rap artist ‘Game’ urges those in the closet to come out

Tuesday, September 6, 2011
In an interview with website VLADTV.com, rap artist The Game says he believes there are a number of big-name rap stars who are homosexual and he feels they should be out and proud about their sexuality. [ Read more → ]
Matt Barber

Matt Barber has pedophilia on the brain

Friday, September 2, 2011
I will say one thing about phony religious right cause celebre turned anti-gay talking head Matt Barber — he certainly knows how to milk a controversy, even if said controversy is as phony as his career. [ Read more → ]
Brian Brown

NOM’s Brian Brown still smarting over disastrous Fox News debate

Friday, September 2, 2011
On the National Organization for Marriage’s blog, NOM president Brian Brown is raising a fuss about a disastrous debate he had on the Fox News show “Stossel” two weeks ago. [ Read more → ]
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